uncurl
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Dole eventually learned that he could grip a pen in his right fingers, a technique he used to mask the fact that he couldn’t uncurl them.
From Washington Post ● Jun. 4, 2021
Unable to uncurl from my kneeling position, I stayed there, as if at prayer.
From New York Times ● Apr. 12, 2021
They do have different personalities: some don’t want to uncurl, while others are brave and want to explore.
From The Guardian ● May 10, 2019
The one fry that didn’t quite uncurl and left the fryer in one giant potato-y, batter-y lump.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 12, 2019
You’d uncurl your fists and let your thoughts go.
From "The Things They Carried" by Tim O'Brien
The worker uncurls its claw-like fingers, daintily grips the basket by its edges and walks it over to a conveyor that will send it through an industrial washing machine.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 15, 2026
When he makes a fist, then uncurls his fingers, Athena does the same.
From New York Times ● Aug. 27, 2021
In a rescue center, the pangolin slowly wakes and uncurls, sniffing out a nighttime feast of ants’ eggs, then lapping it up with its implausibly long tongue.
From Washington Post ● Jul. 20, 2018
His brush uncurls a reptilian ripple of paint that twines and insinuates itself into a snakepit of color.
From Time Magazine Archive
She removes her hand from her pocket and uncurls her fingers.
From "The Night Circus" by Erin Morgenstern
In a split second, Chauhan uncurled his fingers and accepted it.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 4, 2020
On the side of a one-storey church, which was white and wooden and peaked with a small belfry, I uncurled a green hose and drank a long time.
From The Guardian ● Jul. 19, 2019
Compared to other farmers in his area, he said, his corn remains uncurled for longer.
From Salon ● May 10, 2019
In New York, massive banners were uncurled from atop the entrance to the Holland Tunnel declaring “Black Lives Matter” and “Fund Black Futures.”
From Washington Post ● Jul. 22, 2016
Gulping back a few dry sobs, Sefia uncurled, aching, from the floor and put her palms to the stone walls.
From "The Reader" by Traci Chee
By curling and uncurling their toes, geckos can alternate between sticking and unsticking from a surface, and thus easily move across it.
From Textbooks ● Feb. 14, 2019
Hundreds of police officers clumped on the corners, glancing up at the smoke uncurling in the sky.
From New York Times ● Sep. 19, 2016
Ancient Babylonians likened it to an uncurling date palm shoot.
From Slate ● Oct. 20, 2015
Both of us were upon her, coaxing her hands way from her face, uncurling her to reveal wet cheeks.
From The New Yorker ● Jun. 14, 2014
I put the note in my pocket, curling and uncurling my fingers around it for the rest of the period.
From "Sparrow" by Sarah Moon
