The building was of gray, lichen-blotched stone, with a high central portion and two curving wings, like the claws of a crab, thrown out on each side.
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Curving
Synonyms for "curving" (49 found)
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Noun(7 words)
Adjective(2 words)
curvedcurved shapes
Related words (24)
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14 entriesarcarciformbell curve gradingbendcurve based gradingcurviformelliptic curveglass bendingmetal bendingnorm referenced gradingparabolic pathserpentinespiral curvetube bending
Collocations
11 entriescurving beamcurving boundarycurving coastlinecurving linecurving pathcurving roadcurving surfacecurving trajectorydegree of curvingextent of curvingrate of curving
Inflections
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Sample sentences
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Miss Cushing was sitting in the front room, into which we were ushered. She was a placid-faced woman, with large, gentle eyes, and grizzled hair curving down over her temples on each side.
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One van Gogh painting that especially influenced him was “The Starry Night”, painted in eighteen eighty-nine. The curving brushstrokes of van Gogh’s expressive sky look like explosions of blue fire.
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His paintings are explosions of curving lines, shapes and colors. In his art you can see every movement that his arm made. You can see how he had to move his body around the canvas. Videos of Pollock painting show this process, which looks like a painterly dance.
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