Example Sentences

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The worker uncurls its claw-like fingers, daintily grips the basket by its edges and walks it over to a conveyor that will send it through an industrial washing machine.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 15, 2026

When he makes a fist, then uncurls his fingers, Athena does the same.

From New York Times • Aug. 27, 2021

In a rescue center, the pangolin slowly wakes and uncurls, sniffing out a nighttime feast of ants’ eggs, then lapping it up with its implausibly long tongue.

From Washington Post • Jul. 20, 2018

His brush uncurls a reptilian ripple of paint that twines and insinuates itself into a snakepit of color.

From Time Magazine Archive

He uncurls the tangled mystery of this maze.

From "A Bird Will Soar" by Alison Green Myers