curvets

present tense third-person singular of curvet

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of Synonyms for curvets
Verb
  • Listen to the supple bass line, which dances throughout the song as its own character.
    Melissa Ruggieri, USA Today, 18 June 2026
  • This stubbornly optimistic place, where family after family scrapes and claws and laughs and dances their way to a better tomorrow.
    Sara Tenenbaum, CBS News, 18 June 2026
Verb
  • In a comedy special released last week, the thirty-nine-year-old comedian prances around the stage in a purple jumpsuit and sparkly red shoes, riffing on millennial-friendly topics such as Lin-Manuel Miranda and Fleet Foxes.
    Caroline Mimbs Nyce, New Yorker, 6 Mar. 2026
Verb
  • Ortiz navigated past 17 other horses around the final turn and made a hard charge down the stretch.
    Stephen Whyno, The Orlando Sentinel, 3 May 2026
  • Ortiz navigated past 17 other horses around the final turn and made a hard charge down the stretch.
    Stephen Whyno, Chicago Tribune, 2 May 2026
Verb
  • The one who sets the bone-crushing screen that springs the star, then immediately sprints to the rim for the lob, then turns around and blows up the other team’s pick-and-roll on the other end all in one sequence?
    Lawrence Dow, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 24 June 2026
  • After Wally springs her from the Shaw's clutches, the group manages to lure the couple and some of their lackeys into the makeshift particle accelerator trap that former engineer Sam built out of old cathode-ray tube TVs.
    Megan McCluskey, Time, 21 May 2026
Verb
  • Early also stars as Maddie, a plucky dishwasher who leaps to viral superstardom at a trendy food content creation company.
    Jill Goldsmith, Deadline, 19 June 2026
  • Iran defender Milad Mohammadi leaps over a New Zealand defender during the second half.
    Iliana Limón Romero, Los Angeles Times, 16 June 2026
Verb
  • Pinkie’s German immigrant father Emil Clemens Horst built an empire around hops cultivation, including owning vast fields around Campus Commons and other Sacramento areas.
    David Caraccio, Sacbee.com, 13 June 2026
  • With nothing holding her down but a dead-end job and an aging dad, a small-town Texan girl is swiftly bedazzled by a smooth criminal drifter, and hops into his car to pursue a life less ordinary.
    Guy Lodge, Variety, 7 June 2026
Verb
  • Oprah Winfrey bounds into view in a white dress.
    Jack Lang, New York Times, 9 June 2026
  • Something as simple as adding a tablespoon of fresh ground flax or chia seeds to a smoothie can do leaps and bounds improvement in the microbiome itself.
    Suzanne Le Mignot, CBS News, 24 May 2026
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“Curvets.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/curvets. Accessed 30 Jun. 2026.

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