curled

Speech parts

1. curled - Adjective

3. curled - Adjective Satellite

Meaning

of Curl

Having curls; curly; sinuous; wavy; as, curled maple (maple having fibers which take a sinuous course).

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The sightless Milton, with his hair Around his placid temples curled And Shakespeare at his side,a freight, If clay could think and mind were weight, For him who bore the world. William Wordsworth

The more congenial page of some tenth-rate poeticule worn out with failure after failure and now squat in his hole like the tailless fox, he is curled up to snarl and whimper beneath the inaccessible vine of song. Algernon Charles Swinburne

Under the thinning fog the surf curled and creamed, almost without sound, like a thought trying to form inself on the edge of consciousness. Raymond Chandler

She felt... how life, from being made up of little separate incidents which one lived one by one, became curled and whole like a wave which bore one up with it and threw one down with it, there, with a dash on the beach. Virginia Woolf

Will gave a short laugh. He was in gear as if he had just come from the practice room, and his hair curled damply against his temples. He was not looking at Tessa, but she had grown used to that. Will hardly ever looked at her unless he had to. Cassandra Clare

The dog that's always on the go, is better than the one that's always curled up. Irish Proverb

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