Example sentences for: curl

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

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 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?

  • His heart is the dancer, and its muscle the music that rises and subsides: each searching step, each turn, each somersault and curl, each sudden rest.

  • For this woman, and for others who may feel the same way, we have asked several furniture designers to sketch a real computer reading chair--one you can curl up in with your mouse and your cup of Starbucks and read SLATE online.


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