corkscrew
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She is a fashionable woman, with corkscrew curls coming down in front of her ears.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 20, 2026
A cork is when a spin is combined with a flip, resulting in an 'off-axis' direction of travel resembling a corkscrew.
From BBC ● Feb. 16, 2026
In fact, the French more or less conquered Southern California, not by the bayonet but by the corkscrew.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 1, 2025
Many microorganisms also spin and corkscrew through water, but the mechanisms behind the salps' motion are different.
From Science Daily ● May 15, 2024
The other was wide of shoulder and round of belly, with corkscrew ringlets tumbling past his collar.
From "A Dance with Dragons" by George R. R. Martin
The principal space of the Koolhaas building is the dramatic atrium stair that corkscrews up the front of the building.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 20, 2026
Before Kercher’s murder corkscrews their story, “The Twisted Tale of Amanda Knox” luxuriates in the postcard-perfect view from the apartment Amanda shared with Meredith and two Italian women.
From Salon ● Aug. 20, 2025
Campione has become known for her unique specialism in dolls, doll houses, automata, birdcages and corkscrews.
From BBC ● Sep. 7, 2024
At the state’s Enterprise Services Surplus Operations retail store, in Tumwater, Thurston County, bargain hunters could choose from knives, corkscrews, pool cues and other items that have been confiscated by airport security.
From Seattle Times ● May 19, 2024
I just managed to get one foot hooked on the spoke of a wheel as we performed a series of world-class corkscrews.
From "City of the Plague God" by Sarwat Chadda
They seized the football, spun their wheels and corkscrewed even deeper into the NFL basement with a demoralizing 24-16 defeat.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 27, 2026
This part of the ship collapsed as it corkscrewed into the sea floor.
From BBC ● May 17, 2023
They also found that a slightly altered movement, where the invertebrates corkscrewed in mostly one direction, helped create the tangles.
From Scientific American ● Apr. 27, 2023
Hotter days and hotter nights have corkscrewed our weather patterns into spiraling extremes, leaving entire regions around the world jerked from the hottest temperatures they've known to the coldest, from devastating fires to disastrous floods.
From Salon ● May 22, 2022
A twelve-foot centipede with three sets of wings and three pairs of taloned feet corkscrewed around the room in a complex aerial display.
From "Fablehaven" by Brandon Mull
Remy O’Hara lifted a long, corkscrewing shofar to her lips and blew a resonant call.
From New York Times ● Feb. 24, 2023
Adding to the problems that Brockway caused for the Vikings was her unique corkscrewing serve.
From Seattle Times ● Nov. 19, 2022
Crafting Amy and The Doctor's corkscrewing timeline was terrific practice to adapt this book – which Moffat recently told critics inspired the acclaimed "Doctor Who" episode "The Girl in the Fireplace."
From Salon ● May 15, 2022
Like an obsession, it keeps corkscrewing ahead, leaving all kinds of damage in its wake.
From Washington Post ● Aug. 4, 2020
At the apex of my arc I saw the raised plow blades behind, the corkscrewing metal covered with mud, and then the race was over.
From "Middlesex: A Novel" by Jeffrey Eugenides
