Example Sentences

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This part of the ship collapsed as it corkscrewed into the sea floor.

From BBC • May 17, 2023

They also found that a slightly altered movement, where the invertebrates corkscrewed in mostly one direction, helped create the tangles.

From Scientific American • Apr. 27, 2023

Hotter days and hotter nights have corkscrewed our weather patterns into spiraling extremes, leaving entire regions around the world jerked from the hottest temperatures they've known to the coldest, from devastating fires to disastrous floods.

From Salon • May 22, 2022

Tasked with seventh-inning duties and the Dodgers ahead by three runs, he gave up a walk before striking out the Arizona Diamondbacks’ Geraldo Perdomo so emphatically that Perdomo corkscrewed into the dirt.

From Los Angeles Times • May 17, 2022

An unruly thatch of brown hair corkscrewed across his forehead.

From "Into Thin Air" by Jon Krakauer