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
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
Another reason to read the book: It boasts a surprise ending with a deliciously complex corkscrew conundrum.
From Seattle Times ● Mar. 4, 2024
He gives his orange corkscrew locks a shake and applies a fresh coat of purple lipstick to his mouth.
From "The Hunger Games" by Suzanne Collins
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
Across the landscape weeds advanced; weeds corkscrewed their way into the walls around him and worked the walls until the weeds became their own spore.
From "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?" by Philip K. Dick
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
Tonally, it’s raw and serrated, with Steve Hanley’s corkscrewing bass lines as twisting and piercing as Smith’s venomous and intractable vocals.
From The Guardian ● Mar. 25, 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
