uncurl

Steve said: "He deserves the rapt attention the audience give him when he uncurls the hilarious stories of his life - some illustrated with an uncanny ability to entertain on almost any musical instrument you can throw at him.

a blue, tattooed Celtic knot uncurls. I want to run my dry tongue

His Bracken Crozier sculpture explores how the head of bracken, as it uncurls in the spring, resembles a bishop's crosier.

Dew uncurls the fists of dry leaves along the patio.

Such events--a foreign text, much of it, with which you are in touch, translating it into your feelings, mixed with a Siamese rack of gongs, lacerated by dissynchronisms, hurt, wounds, and yet it is still happening: a meek fern has burst through the tarmac of your street, and the fern uncurls, seeking light.

As the bucket slowly uncurls, keep an eye on the jacks.

Meanwhile, in a spooky warehouse, police investigating a corpse are flabbergasted when a crazed Indian uncurls himself from a small tin box, like a genie from a lamp, and proceeds to wreak havoc.

Tell them to blow through the end of the party blower to watch the "proboscis" curl and uncurl. Explain that a butterfly's proboscis uncurls like this when it is ready to eat.

And with that Dan uncurls his tall frame from the chair and prepares for battle in the bowling alley.

The spiral alludes to the movement of the kundalini, which uncurls to move through the three channels of the human body (nadis) to connect sexual energy with pure consciousness.

Then it uncurls a tube from its mouth and sucks up the juice.

To be ill is wonderful, to lie listening on a bed as a lawnmower sprays grass against the screen, to have an ache to raise up to the world's ache and to whisper, "I hold myself softly in the palm of my hand, this is me' as a grandmother enters and gently uncurls my fingers from a pillow.