curlicue
Example Sentences
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He then unspooled a long-winded, curlicued, two-minute response that mentioned natural resources, technology, innovation, productivity, inflation, energy, joblessness and the economy, among other things.
From Los Angeles Times • May 18, 2025
The screens are fretworked to evoke the lightly curlicued 19th-century ironwork of southern cities, yet the dark bronze colour of the screens looks sombre.
From Economist • Aug. 13, 2015
Season two captures that idea—of the massive, inhuman networks mankind creates for commerce—in the signature visual of the season, its aerial establishing shots of California freeways, with their vast curlicued interchanges.
From Time • Jun. 18, 2015
They were hung salon style, so close together they seemed a teeming mass of gold curlicued frames.
From Salon • Jul. 9, 2012
When she stood up, she was a head taller than me with long blonde hair that curlicued down her back.
From "Wintergirls" by Laurie Halse Anderson
Vocabulary lists containing curlicue
The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street
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The Great Gilly Hopkins
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Milkweed
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