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
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
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
Many microorganisms also spin and corkscrew through water, but the mechanisms behind the salps' motion are different.
From Science Daily • May 15, 2024
He dives and surfaces, spraying water out of his mouth, rolls over and over in some bizarre corkscrew motion that makes me dizzy even to watch.
From "Catching Fire" by Suzanne Collins
