curlicue
Example Sentences
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She opened the box and pulled out a slender gray velvet dress with thin shoulder straps and a curlicue pattern of beading down one side.
From Literature
There is an envelope with my name, Hank Hooperman, in my mom’s curlicue handwriting with hearts above the o’s.
From Literature
And maybe even better, since she had a way with writing her ABCs and I couldn’t care less about swoops and curlicues back then.
From Literature
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.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
