Example Sentences
Recent Examples of Synonyms for curlicued
Verb
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Dressed in an angelic all-white ensemble, Stewart’s hair is longer than most would recognize now and slightly curled.—
Leah Asmelash,
CNN Money,
5 Nov. 2025 -
Perhaps, curled inside the turbulent virginal atmosphere, Helm dreams of being a storm, has a prophetic vision of destruction, feels a natural calling.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
3 Nov. 2025
Verb
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Enormous ventilation pipes were coiled like snakes on the roof of the building.—
Ingfei Chen,
New Yorker,
22 Oct. 2025
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Anyway, because of the *slightly* complex situation with the aneurysm (nothing bad, just not typical), it wasn’t coiled that weekend.—
Ashley Hume,
FOXNews.com,
15 Oct. 2025
Verb
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As the demonstrators circled the sidewalk outside the World Trade Center with Noem inside, Manolo De Los Santos, a founder of The People's Forum and a regular protest organizer, told the crowd that demonstrators weren’t allowed inside.—
Asra Q. Nomani , Nikolas Lanum , Michael Dorgan,
FOXNews.com,
9 Jan. 2026
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As one officer grabs at her door handle, a third officer who had circled to the front of the SUV from the opposite side draws his gun.—
Bill Chappell,
NPR,
8 Jan. 2026
Verb
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In car design, that meant a short roof that curved downward, for a sleek stylish look that did not preclude four doors.—
Mark Phelan,
Freep.com,
4 Nov. 2025
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But by the early 19th century, some mathematicians had started exploring other kinds of geometric spaces — ones that aren’t flat but rather curved like a sphere or saddle.—
Quanta Magazine,
Quanta Magazine,
3 Nov. 2025
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Long, arched hallways lead to the guest rooms, restaurants, castle-like lounge spaces, and even an ancient cloister from the former monastery.—
Hannah Chubb,
Condé Nast Traveler,
2 Jan. 2026
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Your chest should be upright and your torso should be slightly forward so that your back is flat and not arched or rounded forward.—
Jenny McCoy,
SELF,
3 Dec. 2025
Verb
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In turn, inflation spiraled even higher, at one point reaching 85 percent.—
Rogé Karma,
The Atlantic,
7 Jan. 2026
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Ackerman and Tate spent time together at a bar and eventually returned home, where the situation spiraled, the lawsuit said.—
Nathan Pilling,
Kansas City Star,
21 Dec. 2025
Verb
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As with the first two Knives Out movies, Netflix bowed the threequel at the Toronto Film Festival in September.—
Patrick Hipes,
Deadline,
2 Jan. 2026
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Several councils in major cities bowed to public pressure.—
Michael Saunders,
FOXNews.com,
28 Dec. 2025
Verb
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The answer was white creme de cacao, just at a scant quarter ounce, that brought the depth that united the herbal liqueurs and rounded their sharp edges.—
Jason O'Bryan,
Robb Report,
3 Jan. 2026
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The Heat’s opening unit was rounded out by Powell, Wiggins and Mitchell.—
Ira Winderman,
Sun Sentinel,
2 Jan. 2026
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“Curlicued.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/curlicued. Accessed 12 Jan. 2026.
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