How to Use corkscrew in a Sentence

corkscrew

1 of 3 noun

• To use, simply screw the corkscrew into the cork and the wings will rise.
  — Maya Polton, Better Homes & Gardens, 10 Jan. 2023
• This is of course, not to say that only black women wear corkscrew curls.
  — Chaédria Labouvier, Allure, 26 Oct. 2017
• The lady opens the bottle with one of those old corkscrews with arms that open on the side.
  — Kara Baskin, BostonGlobe.com, 9 July 2018
• The corkscrew went into the soil like an ice pick through a hamburger.
  — Ryan D'agostino, Popular Mechanics, 24 Oct. 2020
• Let your corkscrew be your passport to wine adventure in the year ahead.
  — Dave McIntyre, Washington Post, 5 Jan. 2023
• Rodriguez then landed a corkscrew on Iyo.
  — Alfred Konuwa, Forbes.com, 18 Aug. 2025
• Tell your friends to put away that corkscrew for good, this electric machine is more than up to the task.
  — Kirsten Chanel Webber, Rolling Stone, 31 Oct. 2023
• There’s no corkscrew or glass needed, and the Sofia mini even comes with a straw.
  — Krishna Thakker, Fortune, 26 July 2017
• What awaits us beyond the maelstrom, far along the z-axis, at the corkscrew’s end?
  — Anthony Lydgate, WIRED, 6 Sep. 2022
• Crawford posed next to her husband wearing a two-tone dress, corkscrew curls, and white fur stole.
  — Ashley Edwards Walker, Glamour, 29 Oct. 2017
• The poster art comes up with a grisly new application for a corkscrew.
  — Nick Vivarelli, Variety, 17 May 2026
• For some reason, my group always seems to wind up at a cabin that’s missing a corkscrew.
  — Bryan Rogala, Outside Online, 26 Nov. 2019
• The inside comes with four plates, a knife, corkscrew and a removable cutting board.
  — The Good Housekeeping Institute, Good Housekeeping, 11 July 2017
• Smooth patches of progress hit speed bumps and unexpected corkscrew turns.
  — Lorraine Berry, Los Angeles Times, 8 June 2023
• Visitors can descend from that room to the ground floor on a slide that corkscrews around the central stair.
  — Mark Lamster architecture Critic, Dallas Morning News, 10 Feb. 2026
• In a corkscrew of purple smoke there is a flickering light, no bigger than a pinhole.
  — Dave Eggers, The New Yorker, 11 Oct. 2020
• The top of the corkscrew is designed for an easy twist and also doubles as a bottle opener.
  — Bestreviews, Mercury News, 25 Dec. 2025
• The corkscrew has an easy-to-use, two-step lever, and two liquor pourers to reduce the risk of messy spills from a bottle.
  — Belle Duchene, Better Homes & Gardens, 14 Aug. 2023
• Iyo Sky avoided a corkscrew elbow from Rodriguez and fired up on her once again.
  — Alfred Konuwa, Forbes.com, 18 Aug. 2025
• After taking off the foil, start by removing the corkscrew's sheath and slide it into the cork.
  — Dana Rose Falcone, chicagotribune.com, 22 Feb. 2021
• What looked like a back-and-forth wiggle in 2D now appears more like a corkscrew motion.
  — Scientific American, 30 Aug. 2019
• But its seductions come and go, a dance here, a ragtime riff there, another twist in the corkscrew plot.
  — Alexis Soloski, New York Times, 9 Apr. 2018
• No more struggling with manual corkscrews, this can pop up to 30 corks on a single charge.
  — Claire Rutter, Rolling Stone, 25 Oct. 2023
• My 6-year-old eyes couldn’t believe the enormous concrete, corkscrew walkways.
  — Tom Krasovic, sandiegouniontribune.com, 10 May 2017
• At the far end of the mahogany and cashmere dressing hall, a corkscrew staircase leads to a fitness area and lounge.
  — Mark David, Robb Report, 1 June 2026
• If you’re headed to wine country for a girls’ week, be careful about packing a corkscrew in your carry-on bag.
  — Karen Brewer Grossman, Southern Living, 12 Jan. 2026
• One of those flips, a corkscrew at 197 feet above the ground, sets a world record for highest inversion.
  — Susan Glaser, cleveland.com, 11 July 2019
• Shrapnel and glass tore through his legs, sinus cavity and right eye, and twisted like a corkscrew through his right cheek.
  — Liza Gross, Discover Magazine, 19 June 2014
• The Ipow corkscrew wine opener is the most reliable version of this classic tech.
  — Popular Science, 8 Nov. 2019
• Made of stainless steel, this durable corkscrew can remove natural and synthetic corks with a few turns of the wrist.
  — Bestreviews, Mercury News, 25 Dec. 2025

corkscrew

2 of 3 adjective

• Seth Rollins hit a corkscrew frog splash that had to be seen to be believed.
  — Alfred Konuwa, Forbes, 11 Apr. 2021
• Or, as in my case, in digits sliced by a corkscrew bottle opener.
  — Los Angeles Times, 5 Jan. 2023
• Some corkscrew-style wine openers have lots of moving parts and can be pretty tricky to use.
  — Maya Polton, Better Homes & Gardens, 10 Jan. 2023
• A couple of times my fingers got pinched in the corkscrew opener’s arms, cut open and bled.
  — Los Angeles Times, 5 Jan. 2023
• The set also comes with two pieces of chalk, three slate labels, and a corkscrew wine opener.
  — Sarah Yang, Sunset Magazine, 9 May 2023
• Of course, there’s a corkscrew and corduroy wine duffel ready for that bottle of rosé, too.
  — Stephanie Cain, Fortune, 11 June 2021
• Twist the felt into a corkscrew shape to complete the tail and attach with a small safety pin.
  — Amanda Garrity, Good Housekeeping, 9 Sep. 2020
• Line the corkscrew tip up with the center of the anchor’s hole and carefully press the end in about an inch.
  — Mary Cornetta, Better Homes & Gardens, 28 Jan. 2026
• Iyo Sky avoided a corkscrew elbow from Rodriguez and fired up on her once again.
  — Alfred Konuwa, Forbes.com, 18 Aug. 2025
• The final effect is sunkissed and ultra-flattering on corkscrew curls like these.
  — Kaitlyn Yarborough, Southern Living, 13 June 2026
• And because jets are thought to align with the axis of the disk, a precessing disk should also produce a corkscrew jet.
  — science.org, 25 Apr. 2023
• Stradlin’s effortless cool and writing talents were the perfect foil for Slash’s corkscrew licks and hot tone.
  — Matt Wake | [email protected], al, 30 Jan. 2022
• The corkscrew willow branches were painted red, the weeping willow branches white.
  — Joanne Kempinger Demski, Journal Sentinel, 15 Dec. 2022
• The soft foam was gentle on muscles, while the corkscrew design of the inner piece was enough to offer plenty of relief.
  — Rennie Dyball, Peoplemag, 22 Mar. 2023
• Miller, putting a spin of effrontery on every line, is the perfect actor to play this corkscrew superhero.
  — Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 6 June 2023
• That turned out to be too much for the guidance system to compensate, and the vehicle started tumbling in a corkscrew path.
  — Kenneth Chang, New York Times, 20 Apr. 2023
• The film then pivots to Sherald, who appears in head-to-toe denim, her collar popped and grazing her corkscrew curls.
  — Christine Turner, The New Yorker, 30 July 2022
• Rodriguez threw Ripley into the steel ring post, then the steel steps and hit a corkscrew Vader Bomb of sorts.
  — Blake Oestriecher, Forbes.com, 28 June 2025
• Though most of the nail looks black, the corkscrew portion had a golden hue that complemented her overall black-and-gold ensemble.
  — Gabi Thorne, Allure, 2 May 2022
• The corkscrew design was a copy of gun worms used in the 1600s to remove unspent charges jammed in a musket’s barrel.
  — Chris Dorsey, Forbes, 11 July 2022
• Growing to about 10 feet tall, the corkscrew hazel looks stately on its own or when planted with lower growing shrubs and perennials.
  — Lauren Landers, The Spruce, 9 Apr. 2026
• And as Ron and Madison start seeing each other, with her husband still in the way, the film becomes a kind of noir with corkscrew twists.
  — Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 5 Sep. 2023
• The spiral increases the wave’s speed in an angularly dependent way, leading to a corkscrew wave.
  — Chris Lee, Ars Technica, 2 Mar. 2022
• As Srinivasan’s business profile has grown, his political ideas have undergone a few twists of the corkscrew.
  — Anthony Lydgate, WIRED, 6 Sep. 2022
• The only equipment needed, advised Church, was a good corkscrew, general purpose wine glasses, and a wine rack.
  — Carol Flynn, chicagotribune.com, 17 Dec. 2020
• The corkscrew braid, as her hairstylist Kellon Deryck calls it, falls way below Megan's waist, reaching past her knees.
  — Gabi Thorne, Allure, 23 Sep. 2020
• Later, passengers are inverted and dangling above the water in a corkscrew maneuver.
  — Dewayne Bevil, orlandosentinel.com, 9 June 2021
• This flying coaster puts riders face down and features a corkscrew first drop, a 124-foot pretzel loop and a total of four inversions.
  — Forrest Brown, CNN, 30 Apr. 2023
• Midcorner bumps can set the body into a corkscrew motion, and hitting one usually results in a shock reverberating through the cabin.
  — Joe Lorio, Car and Driver, 6 June 2023
• Once safely out of reach of predators, the seals experience sleep paralysis and spiral down in a corkscrew pattern like falling leaves — and wake up in time to keep from drowning.
  — Ashley Strickland, CNN, 22 Apr. 2023

corkscrew

3 of 3 verb

• The light emerges looking like a helix corkscrewing around a central point.
  — Adam Mann, National Geographic, 27 June 2019
• The porch off the owner’s suite has corkscrew stairs to the 300-square-foot private deck.
  — Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com, 22 Jan. 2021
• Above ground, corkscrew plants produce small green leaves and delicate flowers.
  — Scott Travers, Forbes.com, 16 Jan. 2026
• At the flick of another switch, the massive metal corkscrew started to turn.
  — Alli Harvey, Anchorage Daily News, 24 Apr. 2021
• The central corkscrew and two blade-like side prongs work in tandem to slide the cork out of the bottle with ease every time.
  — Mike Desimone and Jeff Jenssen, Robb Report, 18 Nov. 2022
• Avery is a woman of color, with green eyes, corkscrew hair, light-brown skin, and a prominent nose.
  — Ayana Mathis, The Atlantic, 11 May 2021
• Another boy hugged the metal corkscrew slide before heading home.
  — Matthias Gafni, SFChronicle.com, 6 Dec. 2020
• The corkscrew-like von economo neurons are thought to allow rapid communication across the brain.
  — Sandee Lamotte, CNN, 26 Nov. 2022
• There’s a shaker, muddler, strainer, spoon, corkscrew, tongs, jigger, and two liquor pourers.
  — Kevin Cortez, Popular Mechanics, 25 Oct. 2022
• Cerecedo’s passion for the niche world of the collectible corkscrew that first captivates you.
  — Chris Dorsey, Forbes, 11 July 2022
• In the second video, a Reaper-like drone is seen corkscrewing through the air, falling straight down, on fire and missing a wing.
  — Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 2 Oct. 2017
• Take a break from effort and let this automatic electric corkscrew from Rabbit do all the work for you!
  — Maya Polton, Better Homes & Gardens, 30 Jan. 2023
• And people liked listing every last corkscrew used as a percussion instrument on the record.
  — Craig Jenkins, Vulture, 12 Oct. 2022
• The stern, lacking a hydrodynamic leading edge like the bow, tumbled and corkscrewed for more than two miles down to the ocean floor.
  — National Geographic, 22 Aug. 2019
• The real risk-takers make a beeline for the corkscrewing tubular Black Slides.
  — Blaine and Birch Bay, The Seattle Times, 3 Aug. 2017
• Weeping willow branches and corkscrew willow branches were turned into a tree topper.
  — Joanne Kempinger Demski, Journal Sentinel, 15 Dec. 2022
• His signature corkscrew windup was swiftly immortalized in the minds of baseball fans.
  — NBC News, 7 Sep. 2021
• After discarding the foil from the neck of the bottle, place the corkscrew atop the wine bottle with the lever in the upward position.
  — Dana Rose Falcone, chicagotribune.com, 22 Feb. 2021
• This two-part device combines a traditional spiral corkscrew with a dual-pronged ah-so cork remover.
  — Washington Post, 18 Nov. 2021
• With every second that passed, Miles could feel his anxiety further its corkscrew into his stomach.
  — David Gilbert, The New Yorker, 10 Oct. 2022
• Beneath the dark canopy, vines corkscrew around bulbous trunks and palms burst up like giant shuttlecocks from the dense foliage underfoot.
  — Sophy Roberts, Condé Nast Traveler, 28 Mar. 2017
• This category encompasses hair that curls into springs and corkscrew shapes.
  — Sabina Wizemann, Good Housekeeping, 8 Sep. 2023
• Bodies corkscrew into the water, heads first, legs scissoring furiously through the air.
  — Los Angeles Times, 7 Aug. 2021
• Paige put a corkscrew-like needle into her hip bone and extracted healthy stem cells in her bone marrow, which are then spun through a centrifuge to isolate only the stem cells.
  — Maggie Menderski, The Courier-Journal, 21 July 2022
• The differences at this point are chiefly visual, Sky's involving what looks to be a massive, corkscrewing cloudscape set against a cerulean sky.
  — Matt Peckham, Time, 12 Sep. 2017
• There’s a new family pool with a zero-entry, lazy river, and corkscrew waterslide, plus six new pickleball courts ready for action.
  — Beth Luberecki, USA Today, 21 Feb. 2026
• Made with handsome floral jade marble handles, this set has four pieces including a peg measure, bottle opener, strainer, and corkscrew.
  — Amanda Lauren, Forbes, 28 May 2021
• Bystanders captured video showing the jet corkscrewing toward the ground, then disappearing behind homes before a large black plume of smoke appears.
  — Pete Muntean, CNN Money, 17 Oct. 2025
• Bystanders captured video showing the jet corkscrewing toward the ground, then disappearing behind homes before a large black plume of smoke appears.
  — Pete Muntean, CNN Money, 13 Nov. 2025
• The shakers, dual jigger, cocktail strainer, muddler for cocktail, ice tongs, corkscrew, liquor pourers and more are all made of food-grade, rust-proof, durable stainless steel.
  — Michael Goldstein, Forbes, 18 June 2022