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Recent Examples of furl
Winehouse was entirely in her element, swaying to the sultry songs like a furl of smoke and improvising inflections on the lyrics with aplomb.
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Allaire Nuss, EW.com, 18 May 2024
McDonnell’s brow furls slightly underneath his cap.
—Chris MacIas -, Sacramento Bee, 1 Feb. 2024
From every officer’s belt there dangled an insectlike furl of disposable plastic manacles.
—Caleb Crain, Harper's magazine, 22 July 2019
Just look at Redbor kale, which is extravagantly purple, with rich pink in the stems, kinks of fuchsia in the veins, and furls of rosy curls.
—Adrienne Rose Johnson, Bon Appetit, 15 June 2017
Allaire Nuss, EW.com, 18 May 2024
McDonnell’s brow furls slightly underneath his cap.
—Chris MacIas -, Sacramento Bee, 1 Feb. 2024
From every officer’s belt there dangled an insectlike furl of disposable plastic manacles.
—Caleb Crain, Harper's magazine, 22 July 2019
Just look at Redbor kale, which is extravagantly purple, with rich pink in the stems, kinks of fuchsia in the veins, and furls of rosy curls.
—Adrienne Rose Johnson, Bon Appetit, 15 June 2017
Recent Examples of Synonyms for furl
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Perfect Curls Prim, proper, and pristine, Rozenberg has seen a shift to these Shirley-Temple-like curls.Audrey Noble, Vogue, 29 Dec. 2024
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In 1970, Smithson traveled to the Great Salt Lake’s Rozel Point peninsula, northwest of Salt Lake City, and arranged 6,000 tons of local black basalt rock into a 1,500-foot-long, protruding line, which reaches into the lake and curls counterclockwise into a spiral.Sonja Anderson, Smithsonian Magazine, 19 Dec. 2024
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The battery powers it and will have either a coil or ceramic rod that vaporizes the cannabis oil or concentrate inside.Amplified Content Studio, The Mercury News, 2 Dec. 2024
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Advertisement The plan is to install inductive charging coils underground along Charles E. Young Drive between the Westwood Plaza intersection and Murphy Hall.Colleen Shalby, Los Angeles Times, 29 Nov. 2024
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Thus Andy Dixon paints Day-Glo takes on Rococo romances, with sculptural nudes draped in loose tunics cavorting around pleasure gardens dotted with classical statuary; these same motifs are distilled into dainty arabesques and diaphanous whorls in the abstract canvases of Michaela Yearwood-Dan.Rachel Wetzler, Artforum, 1 Dec. 2024
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This technique would be similar to how forensic scientists match fingerprints today, by comparing just a few points of interest rather than the entire whorl.Adam Czajka, IEEE Spectrum, 29 Aug. 2019
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There was no one else on the strand, the surf a sickly yellow foam bubbling between the matted black hanks of seaweed heaped on the beach.Matthew Gavin Frank, Harper's Magazine, 21 Apr. 2022
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In one of its spreads, a burst of light on muddy asphalt abuts a jumble of walls and fences, rain pounding a limousine, and a spatter of paint with a hank of rope.Leo Rubinfien, The New York Review of Books, 11 Feb. 2021
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These kinds of thoughts send you off into a spiral of anxiety, stress, and rumination.Kevin Kruse, Forbes, 13 Dec. 2024
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The inflation/interest rate spiral is killing business confidence, as most Russian enterprises can't survive for too long with current extreme interest rates.Thomas G. Moukawsher, Newsweek, 30 Nov. 2024
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Onstage, clad in Punjabi attire, Diljit was charming and assured, his every smile and twirl of his mustache setting the crowd into a wave of applause and cheers.Richard Trapunski, Billboard, 20 Dec. 2024
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The transformative world he’s drawn into is what spins (and twirls and leaps and bounces) in front of the audience, bringing with it circus of the sublime.David Dickstein, Orange County Register, 18 Dec. 2024
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In his article, Doane says, Around 2,000 people helped rebuild, from a foundry in Normandy that re-tuned the bells which rang out again this weekend, to those scouring forests for centuries-old oak, to find a thousand pieces of French oak to rebuild the spire.Jay Nordlinger, National Review, 19 Dec. 2024
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That same year, a golden rooster — an official symbol of France — was placed atop the building’s new spire.Toria Sheffield, People.com, 7 Dec. 2024
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“Furl.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/furl. Accessed 8 Jan. 2025.
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