corkscrew

She is a fashionable woman, with corkscrew curls coming down in front of her ears.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 20, 2026

It could be a long, slow descent with the lights out on an RAF jet, or a rapid, corkscrew down in a C-130 transport plane.

From BBC ● Jan. 23, 2026

This time I swam the corkscrew, a crazy stroke my kids learned at summer camp, where you do a freestyle stroke, roll into a back stroke, then over again into a freestyle stroke.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 7, 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

Mama had let me sleep in rag rollers the night before, so I had big corkscrew curls instead of my usual pigtails, and she put bobby pins in my hair, crisscrossing two on each side.

From "Root Magic" by Eden Royce

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

One recent newspaper cartoon captured the collision of tragedy and farce by depicting Johnson as the betrayed Roman ruler Julius Caesar, stabbed in the back with corkscrews.

From Seattle Times ● Jan. 29, 2022

Overhead, a small dusky-colored bird was flying in marvelous daring corkscrews.

From "Hoot" by Carl Hiaasen

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

Tasked with seventh-inning duties and the Dodgers ahead by three runs, he gave up a walk before striking out the Arizona Diamondbacks’ Geraldo Perdomo so emphatically that Perdomo corkscrewed into the dirt.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 17, 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

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

With its gently corkscrewing guitar, taut beats and whirring strings, The Turning of Our Bones is inspired by the Famadihana ritual of the Malagasy people, who dance with the corpses of loved ones.

From The Guardian ● Sep. 3, 2020

On social media, users share videos of Messi’s slipping passes through improbably tight spaces, corkscrewing shots past sprawling goalkeepers, darting around defenders like a jack rabbit navigating a gantlet of sloths.

From New York Times ● Apr. 3, 2019

The girl’s voice was corkscrewing right to the middle of her headache.

From "Artemis Fowl" by Eoin Colfer