Example sentences for: curl

How can you use “curl” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • In his discussion of one historic work--Jean Buchon's comparison of American rivers in his 1825 Atlas Geographique --Tufte notes how the depictions of the Mississippi and the Amazon must curl around the page, since there's no room to show them stretched out like the other rivers.

  • A quasi-horizontal chonolith composed of anastomising ductoliths, whose distal ends curl like a harpolith, thin like a sphenolith, or bulge discordantly like an akmolith or ethmolith.

  • To make our pages more attractive, we had been using quotation marks and apostrophes that curl left or right, as appropriate, rather than all-purpose marks that are straight vertical.

  • will squinny his eyes, raise his chin, lift an eyebrow, and curl his lip slightly--his face seems to be involved in a somewhat painful, quasi-involuntary struggle to prevent itself from erupting into a broad, self-satisfied smile.

  • What accounts for charisma in music--for the authority or power that strangely radiates from this or that performer, not just from the sound but (so it seems) from the performer's personality, from the shake of a head or the expressive curl of a wrist?


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