curlicue
Example Sentences
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She ran so fast her hair came undone and popped up in yellow curlicues all ’round her head.
From Literature
On “Rated OG,” he adds intriguing curlicue accents to a chord progression rendered on vibraphone as a forceful, distorted bass riff chugs along underneath.
Get it really cold and then a giant twist, not those little curlicue twists that they do sometimes.
From Salon
The vegetable was bronzed, the cheese melted and browned, perfect curlicues of crisped cheese enveloping each strand of roasted fennel.
From Salon
The Helicteres isora, the jacket’s namesake, is a vibrant plant from northern Oceania whose leaves dry in tawny-green curlicues, like nature’s fractals.
From Los Angeles Times
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