Boats caused 'corkscrew' seal deaths, say researchers. From Wordnik.com. [BBC News - Home] Reference
Hellbender sperm-cell tail, with characteristic "corkscrew" tissue. From Wordnik.com. [National Geographic News] Reference
And my FH got a "corkscrew" instead of a circle when he bent it in a machine. From Wordnik.com. [Offbeat Bride] Reference
It also lands in a sharp "corkscrew" manoeuvre to make it more difficult to target. From Wordnik.com. [British Blogs] Reference
Scientists probing a mysterious spate of fatal "corkscrew" injuries to seals in the UK believe boats were to blame. From Wordnik.com. [BBC News - Home] Reference
So Lois and I, for nine years, lived without a corkscrew. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 14, No. 83, September, 1864] Reference
“Place,” is a bronze statue of her with corkscrew curls. From Wordnik.com. [The South of France—East Half] Reference
"Where is the corkscrew for your olive bottle?" said Minnie. From Wordnik.com. [The Girl Scouts at Home, or, Rosanna's Beautiful Day] Reference
I twisted and turned like a corkscrew, but I dared not leave it. From Wordnik.com. [The La Chance Mine Mystery] Reference
The corkscrew ain't invented that'll draw a word out of M. Godin. From Wordnik.com. [The Darrow Enigma] Reference
The tube itself is also twisted like a corkscrew, and widens at its mouth. From Wordnik.com. [The Art of Living in Australia ; together with three hundred Australian cookery recipes and accessory kitchen information by Mrs. H. Wicken] Reference
Just beyond the corkscrew slide the President of Egypt was bleeding to death. From Wordnik.com. [The Assassination of Sadat] Reference
One girl shaved her head just for the photograph, and made the corkscrew curls. From Wordnik.com. [Photographer Molly Landreth's best shot] Reference
I bought the corkscrew, and from that moment my income has equalled my expenses. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 14, No. 83, September, 1864] Reference
Not too late, your mother admonishes, struggling with the corkscrew in the motel kitchen. From Wordnik.com. [Strawberry] Reference
"I have no time," said she, laughing, sticking the corkscrew into the neck of the bottle. From Wordnik.com. [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference
A plane without a tail starts to wobble after a few seconds and then goes into a corkscrew dive. From Wordnik.com. [Why Did Flight 587 Fall?] Reference
At this point, Jupille suddenly found himself one too many, and vanished down the corkscrew stair. From Wordnik.com. [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference
I twisted the corkscrew back out, and the tire went flat in about 30 seconds. From Wordnik.com. [Revenge at the Nudist Camp] Reference
Occasionally, it will twist its way along like a long, slender corkscrew, or auger, boring into space. From Wordnik.com. [The Human Aura Astral Colors and Thought Forms] Reference
Lacelike tendrils grow straight until they touch something, then they wind into an anchoring corkscrew. From Wordnik.com. [Groundwork: The word on cukes] Reference
You let me get all the blisters, and you just sat in the stern and steered us like a blessed corkscrew. From Wordnik.com. [Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 104, March 25, 1893] Reference
"Well, I never!" said the waitress, tossing her head scornfully, and shaking back her little corkscrew curls. From Wordnik.com. [Dick, Marjorie and Fidge A Search for the Wonderful Dodo] Reference
Barry leaves the kitchen table, finds a corkscrew, sidesteps ants in the closet, takes out a bottle of merlot. From Wordnik.com. [Ants] Reference
Dover egg beater .09 1 pepper shaker .05 1 salt shaker .05 1 baking dish .10 1 bread knife .25 1 corkscrew .10. From Wordnik.com. [Ontario Teachers' Manuals: Household Management] Reference
When ripe the plant drew back its life-giving fluid from the fiber and it collapsed and twisted like a corkscrew. From Wordnik.com. [Textiles For Commercial, Industrial, and Domestic Arts Schools; Also Adapted to Those Engaged in Wholesale and Retail Dry Goods, Wool, Cotton, and Dressmaker's Trades] Reference
Only available made to order, the corkscrew and its handsome storage box can both be engraved with the owner's name. From Wordnik.com. [The Maximalist] Reference
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