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
Though they look dead, with leafless branches and rough, gnarled trunks, their buds are still developing, and by spring, they are ready to uncoil and emerge.
From Slate ● Oct. 18, 2017
“No. That’s not why. You chose the name Fern because you loved the way ferns uncoil from fronds, like a dancer.”
From "The Wrong Way Home" by Kate O’Shaughnessy
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
He measured each step, sprang forward and then uncoiled, thumping the ball out of Allen’s grip to send it skidding to the turf.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 31, 2025
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
Gone is the idea of a totemic strand of DNA that extends six feet when uncoiled and stretched out in a straight line.
From New York Times ● May 10, 2023
Vulnerable to attack and without shade, it uncoiled across the undulating land in long shallow S shapes.
From "Atonement" by Ian McEwan
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
Harry felt it shudder — he knew what was happening, he could sense it, could almost see the giant serpent uncoiling itself from Slytherin’s mouth.
From "Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets" by J. K. Rowling
