uncoil
to unwind from a coiled position.
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How to use uncoil in a sentence
Instead, we see him shielding his face from the world, the release of tension visible as if a spring has uncoiled in his body.
Monster Tells a Harrowing Story—But the Filmmaking Gets in the Way | Stephanie Zacharek | May 7, 2021 | TimeNow it was contrary to all the most rigid laws of the porcupine kind to uncoil themselves in the face of danger.
The Backwoodsmen | Charles G. D. RobertsAs she spoke that weak thing within her seemed to uncoil, to grow suddenly tremendously strong; she longed to go!
The Garden Party | Katherine MansfieldI of course at once told him to uncoil it and get on the arte, from which he was not more than fifteen feet distant.
Hours of Exercise in the Alps | John TyndallCarney saw him uncoil from his waist an ordinary packing rope; it was not a lariat, being short.
Bulldog Carney | W. A. Fraser
For a second it seemed as if Cephas Langdon would uncoil and leap at the presumptuous underling with the big chin.
The Sin of Monsieur Pettipon | Richard Connell
British Dictionary definitions for uncoil
/ (ʌnˈkɔɪl) /
to unwind or become unwound; untwist
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