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  • verb Present participle of corkscrew.

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Examples

  • Removing the bone is best done by tunnelling with your knife through the inside once the hipbone is removed (this is also known as corkscrewing).

    The Globe and Mail - Home RSS feed Chef Keith Froggett 2010

  • The jet at about 1'oclock looks to be "corkscrewing" out from a darker region in the "toroidal looking" sphere.

    Great Observatories Combine for Stunning Look at Milky Way | Universe Today 2009

  • So he repeatedly took huge, wild, uppercut swings at the ball, corkscrewing himself into the dirt whenever he missed.

    In the Time of Bobby Cox Lang Whitaker 2011

  • The corkscrewing of the copter was forcing them relentlessly northeast.

    Gideon’s war Howard Gordon 2011

  • I launch myself from the wall again, corkscrewing through the water, long goldredbrown hair in seaweed tendrils twisting around me as I twirl.

    In the water 2009

  • Marcus Aurelius's hair stands energetically up, a nimbus of corkscrewing locks, not a bit like the conventional signs for hair that plaster so many Roman marble crania.

    The Forever City Robert Hughes 2011

  • The corkscrewing of the copter was forcing them relentlessly northeast.

    Gideon’s war Howard Gordon 2011

  • The corkscrewing of the copter was forcing them relentlessly northeast.

    Gideon’s war Howard Gordon 2011

  • Here Neeson reaches out and twists both hands in opposite directions, like he's corkscrewing two ends of a soda can, reaches toward me so it's clear: This is in his chest.

    Liam Neeson opens up about losing wife Natasha Richardson Liz Kelly 2011

  • So he repeatedly took huge, wild, uppercut swings at the ball, corkscrewing himself into the dirt whenever he missed.

    In the Time of Bobby Cox Lang Whitaker 2011

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  • Pretty word. "To move in a spiral or zigzag course".

    February 25, 2007