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as in spiral
turning around an axis like the thread of a screw an angelic child with beautiful corkscrew curls

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corkscrew

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verb

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as in to pull
to draw out by force or with effort practically every word had to be corkscrewed out of the tight-lipped witness

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Recent Examples of corkscrew
Adjective
The singer, 55, stepped out with the big corkscrew curls she was famed for wearing throughout the 1990s at the Catch Steak restaurant in Aspen, Colo., on Thursday, Dec. 27. Latoya Gayle, People.com, 27 Dec. 2024 Swift’s high school principal of two years, Paul Decker, still remembers the teenager with corkscrew curls walking into his office the summer of 2004 with her mom. Amber Roberson, The Tennessean, 22 Dec. 2024
Verb
The sitting area had a dramatic brick chimney that corkscrewed from floor to ceiling. Kate Maxwell, Travel + Leisure, 18 May 2024 Always prepared, Schrader brought his own bottle of wine and corkscrew to a table of teetotalers. Stephen Rodrick, Variety, 9 May 2024 See all Example Sentences for corkscrew 
Recent Examples of Synonyms for corkscrew
Adjective
  • Our solar system’s region of space lies in the plane of the galaxy, out in one of its spiral arms.
    Jeffrey Kluger/Greenbelt, TIME, 8 Feb. 2025
  • One obvious issue with this sort of building is that spiral stairs are not accessible for those with disabilities.
    Adam Williams, New Atlas, 4 Feb. 2025
Verb
  • Brands began to pull together resources to support refugees.
    Stephan Rabimov, Forbes, 13 Feb. 2023
  • The 13-minute performance will likely call for a healthy dose of vibrant, colored lighting to pull it all together.
    Kelly Allen, House Beautiful, 10 Feb. 2023
Verb
  • Over 500 athletes from 23 nations came together to participate in the sports tournament, which added the new winter sports of alpine skiing and snowboarding, Nordic skiing, biathlon, skeleton and wheelchair curling to its lineup for the first time.
    Janine Henni, People.com, 17 Feb. 2025
  • Dust devils curled upwards toward the cerulean sky.
    Sue Mead, Popular Science, 13 Feb. 2025
Verb
  • The New York Rangers’ Jonathan Quick is one of the few remaining goalies who likes to get low, coiling his body in the crease like a snake and peering through everybody’s legs.
    Mark Lazerus, The Athletic, 9 Jan. 2025
  • The second movement was deliberately paced yet coiled with restrained energy; the lyricism felt expansive without losing forward momentum.
    Zachary Woolfe, New York Times, 9 Jan. 2025
Verb
  • The main goal of earlier projects was to extract a record of abrupt climate change from ancient air frozen into the ice.
    ByPaul Voosen, science.org, 6 Feb. 2025
  • Strauss extracted key situations and themes from the case and then fictionalized it into this riveting six-part Netflix series.
    Randy Myers, The Mercury News, 6 Feb. 2025
Verb
  • But after the rain, Santa Ana winds loom, potentially increasing fire risk if combined with dry vegetation.
    Ryan Fonseca, Los Angeles Times, 4 Feb. 2025
  • Make your way through the multi-floor museum’s spacious galleries filled with natural light before winding into the McLellan House and the outdoor sculptural park.
    Eliseé Browchuk, Vogue, 3 Feb. 2025
Verb
  • The next year, White plucked Jennifer Coolidge and Jon Gries from the season 1 cast and transported them to Sicily.
    Ryan Coleman, EW.com, 31 Jan. 2025
  • Pickens was a healthy scratch down the stretch, losing playing time to Jonathan Ford, who was plucked off the Packers’ practice squad.
    Kevin Fishbain, The Athletic, 25 Jan. 2025
Verb
  • Located at The Meadows at the top of Elk Camp Gondola, the Snowmass tubing experience takes you down multiple lanes, zooming, curving, gliding and spinning.
    Shauna Farnell, The Denver Post, 29 Jan. 2025
  • Worn slightly tousled and curved around her chin, the bob was the work of her longtime hairstylist Larry Sims.
    Morgan Fargo, Vogue, 28 Jan. 2025

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