uncurl
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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
I expected it to thrash its claws and curl and uncurl its tail.
From "Made You Up" by Francesca Zappia
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
She uncurls her legs from beneath her, and Ainsley turns to give her a pleading look.
From "Pride" by Ibi Zoboi
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
He reached into the pocket of his pants, uncurled Mariam’s fingers, and pushed a handkerchief into her palm.
From "A Thousand Splendid Suns" by Khaled Hosseini
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
Their fingers flew as they chatted together, the pale fibers stretching and uncurling into threads for what would become kente cloth.
From "Copper Sun" by Sharon M. Draper
