uncurl

Dole eventually learned that he could grip a pen in his right fingers, a technique he used to mask the fact that he couldn’t uncurl them.

From Washington Post ● Jun. 4, 2021

They do have different personalities: some don’t want to uncurl, while others are brave and want to explore.

From The Guardian ● May 10, 2019

The one fry that didn’t quite uncurl and left the fryer in one giant potato-y, batter-y lump.

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 12, 2019

Gradually - and very, very cautiously - one of those balls begins to uncurl, revealing two blackcurrant eyes, a long snout, an even longer tail and a soft pink belly.

From BBC ● Feb. 4, 2015

And I saw, in every tiny motion, my fingers uncurl Peach’s fingers.

From Each Little Bird That Sings by Deborah Wiles

The worker uncurls its claw-like fingers, daintily grips the basket by its edges and walks it over to a conveyor that will send it through an industrial washing machine.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 15, 2026

When he makes a fist, then uncurls his fingers, Athena does the same.

From New York Times ● Aug. 27, 2021

In a rescue center, the pangolin slowly wakes and uncurls, sniffing out a nighttime feast of ants’ eggs, then lapping it up with its implausibly long tongue.

From Washington Post ● Jul. 20, 2018

His brush uncurls a reptilian ripple of paint that twines and insinuates itself into a snakepit of color.

From Time Magazine Archive

Then she slowly uncurls herself until she’s standing straight with her arms thrown in the air, her wrists slightly bent.

From "The Wrong Way Home" by Kate O’Shaughnessy

In a split second, Chauhan uncurled his fingers and accepted it.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 4, 2020

On the side of a one-storey church, which was white and wooden and peaked with a small belfry, I uncurled a green hose and drank a long time.

From The Guardian ● Jul. 19, 2019

Compared to other farmers in his area, he said, his corn remains uncurled for longer.

From Salon ● May 10, 2019

In New York, massive banners were uncurled from atop the entrance to the Holland Tunnel declaring “Black Lives Matter” and “Fund Black Futures.”

From Washington Post ● Jul. 22, 2016

Maddie uncurled the gripping earphones and microphone and passed her headset to the pretty little blond wireless operator, who adjusted the phones to fit her head.

From "Code Name Verity" by Elizabeth Wein

By curling and uncurling their toes, geckos can alternate between sticking and unsticking from a surface, and thus easily move across it.

From Textbooks ● Feb. 14, 2019

Hundreds of police officers clumped on the corners, glancing up at the smoke uncurling in the sky.

From New York Times ● Sep. 19, 2016

Ancient Babylonians likened it to an uncurling date palm shoot.

From Slate ● Oct. 20, 2015

Both of us were upon her, coaxing her hands way from her face, uncurling her to reveal wet cheeks.

From The New Yorker ● Jun. 14, 2014

Sohrab took his mom’s hand, gently uncurling her manicured fingers and weaving them with his own.

From "Darius the Great Is Not Okay" by Adib Khorram