corkscrew
Example Sentences
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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
Where shorter colonies spun around an axis, like a spiraling football, longer chains would buckle and coil like a corkscrew.
From Science Daily • May 15, 2024
She hands him a corkscrew and asks him to open the bottle he’s brought, to pour himself a glass.
From "The Namesake" by Jhumpa Lahiri
