Curl

//kɜɹl//

"Curl" in a Sentence (38 examples)

On colder days, they curl up or dig a hole in the snow.

It's not the mode for young girls to curl their bangs.

She made his hair curl.

Cut off that curl!

"Poor little soul," she murmured, lifting a loose curl of hair from the child's tear-stained face.

Trilobites fossils are arthropods, or joint-footed animals, with a segmented body of hinged plates and shields. They could curl up into a ball for protection, sometimes fossilizing as a "rolled" trilobite.

Sami loves the curl patterns of Layla's hair.

We finished with a curl of orange peel.

Her face made me think of a pickled herring in curl papers.

Stroke lashes upwards to boost curl.

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My hair doesn't have much curl.

[…]she took it down, looked long and fondly at it, then, shaking her curls about her face, as if to hide the act, pressed it to her lips and seemed to weep over it in an uncontrollable paroxysm of tender grief.

Serene, smiling, enigmatic, she faced him with no fear whatever showing in her dark eyes.[…]She put back a truant curl from her forehead where it had sought egress to the world, and looked him full in the face now, drawing a deep breath which caused the round of her bosom to lift the lace at her throat.

The face which emerged was not reassuring.[…]. He was not a mongol but there was a deficiency of a sort there, and it was not made more pretty by a latter-day hair cut which involved eccentrically long elf-locks and oiled black curls.

[…] the backs of their necks and their forelegs are decorated with curls and their necks and bodies are covered with fine, undulating lines.

It is possible to use the wind which blows from the left to the right by playing well into the wind with the slightest bit of curl on the ball[…]

Now do a curl and an overhead press, keeping your palms facing in.

The curl of the vector field #92;vec#123;F#125;(x,y,z) is the vector field #92;operatorname#123;curl#125;#92;,#92;vec#123;F#125;#92;equiv#92;vec#123;#92;nabla#125;#92;times#92;vec#123;F#125;#61;#92;left(#92;frac#123;#92;partialF#95;z#125;#123;#92;partialy#125;-#92;frac#123;#92;partialF#95;y#125;#123;#92;partialz#125;,#92;frac#123;#92;partialF#95;x#125;#123;#92;partialz#125;-#92;frac#123;#92;partialF#95;z#125;#123;#92;partialx#125;,#92;frac#123;#92;partialF#95;y#125;#123;#92;partialx#125;-#92;frac#123;#92;partialF#95;x#125;#123;#92;partialy#125;#92;right).

In 2D, when Q is a polygonal domain, the singularities of Type (2) disappear because ψ is the scalar curl of u and is such that its vectorial curl is zero.

These potatoes, however, planted the next year, have a fair yield, untouched by the curl.

The one-piece back is of a medium curl.

The main object in surfing is to always remain in the curl.

He picked the ball up about forty yards out on the left wing, left a trail of Arsenal defenders in his wake, and curled the ball round Geoff Barnett as he came right out into the far corner.

Campbell should have scored but missed with a header from four yards at the far post before Taylor-Fletcher came close to adding a second when he curled an effort over the stranded Reina, who should have been punished for a poor clearance.

She curls her spine; she wedges a pillow between her knees.

It seemed to me that Mr. St. John's under lip protruded, and his upper lip curled a moment.

Clouds curled down from the mountains.

The ball curled to a stop within six inches of the hole.

I curl at my local club every weekend.

When curling the weight, bring the barbell up toward the chin, then return it to its starting position. Keep your elbows and upper arms as immobile as possible to isolate the biceps.

But curl their locks with bodkins and with braids

There was also hairdressing: hairdressing, too, really was hairdressing in those times — no running a comb through it and that was that. It was curled, frizzed, waved, put in curlers overnight, waved with hot tongs;[…].

Thicker than the snakie locks / That curld Megæra.

Curling with metaphors a plain intention.

Seas would be pools without the brushing air / To curl the waves.

Longhaired curls should have silky coats of medium length.

Curls may be mated with curls.

In addition to their ears, Curls are known for their silky, flat coat which can be long or short.

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