uncoil
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There is fundamental pent-up demand for home improvement that should uncoil as housing turnover improves.
From Barron's ● Jan. 29, 2026
Slamming her feet down on the springboard, Biles compresses the springs that then uncoil and transfer energy back into her body as she reaches up and backward for the vault table.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 23, 2024
Had I said, "I love you"? I will never be able to uncoil that memory from my brain.
From Salon ● May 2, 2023
As they are beaten, the proteins in egg whites uncoil, trapping air in tiny bubbles.
From New York Times ● Feb. 7, 2022
I uncoil the flowers, stretching out their petals and stems.
From "The Belles" by Dhonielle Clayton
When the material is pulled, hidden length inside the polymer uncoils, allowing it to elongate up to 40 times more than standard polymers without weakening.
From Science Daily ● Nov. 27, 2024
But Mills can tell when Junie is over it herself: Her tongue uncoils further out the crook of her mouth, dashes turn into trots, trots turn into steps, steps turn to sit.
From Washington Post ● Aug. 24, 2022
A final curl of smoke uncoils in the wind.
From Seattle Times ● Aug. 10, 2022
But the action is well mounted and the tension tightly wound; it uncoils, when it does, with a satisfying snap.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 19, 2018
He uncoils the grounding wires, raises the aerials, and switches them on.
From "All the Light We Cannot See" by Anthony Doerr
On the drive out that afternoon, between fields of corn and sunflowers, miles of newly uncoiled barbed wire glint in the sunlight.
From BBC ● Aug. 24, 2025
She spoke with the force of a spring uncoiled and the determination of a balled-up fist.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 21, 2024
Razor wire has also been uncoiled along the border.
From Washington Times ● Sep. 27, 2023
Officers from Customs and Border Protection uncoiled razor wire across the railway gate.
From Reuters ● Aug. 8, 2023
Screeching, her dragons uncoiled and spread their wings.
From "A Clash of Kings" by George R.R. Martin
The seven-minute “Undoer” is a heaving, odd-meter, coiling and uncoiling stomp that moves on a jazzy bass riff, triplet percussion and an increasingly overwrought vocal from Cameron Winter.
From New York Times ● Jun. 30, 2023
He published photographs of security officers uncoiling barbed wire next to a wall that appeared more than two metres high.
From Reuters ● Nov. 11, 2022
It’s followed by an uncoiling down the mound with the left hand holding the baseball last in the movement.
From Seattle Times ● Mar. 17, 2022
On his way up, he span round on an uncoiling rope with the camera on his back: “There’s GoPro footage of that which still makes me ill.”
From The Guardian ● Mar. 29, 2018
But it had to be done in one continuous and unbroken cycle of uncoiling and coiling the body.
From "The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics" by Daniel James Brown
