Example Sentences

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Everything’s a little turned up and heightened, things are curling around the edges.

From Los Angeles Times • May 31, 2022

And in grand government ministries in Naypyidaw, the capital of Myanmar, stacks of documents are curling in the humidity.

From New York Times • Mar. 19, 2021

Canada has given us so many wonderful things, among them are curling, courtesy, and "Kim's Convenience."

From Salon • Apr. 4, 2020

Their colorful limbs are curling up at the tips.

From Washington Post • Nov. 22, 2013

New mbika vines are curling up from the ground behind us, where the water pools in our footsteps.

From "The Poisonwood Bible" by Barbara Kingsolver