uncoil
Example Sentences
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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
I would read a sentence once, considering it insightful but obvious enough; then, on a second or fourth or seventh reading, the same sentence would uncoil itself, revealing something almost unsettlingly perceptive.
From New York Times • Sep. 25, 2018
We weren’t quite halfway up the wall when it reached the ground below us, looked up, and squatted like a spring about to uncoil.
From "Hollow City" by Ransom Riggs
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
