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US
/ˈkɝvɪŋ/
]
[ UK /kˈɜːvɪŋ/ ]
[ UK /kˈɜːvɪŋ/ ]
ADJECTIVE
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having or marked by a curve or smoothly rounded bend
his curved lips suggested a smile but his eyes were hard
the curved tusks of a walrus
How To Use curving In A Sentence
- Interrupted by just the squat Marble Mountains, we sit insignificantly at the hub of a huge disc of sand curving to every horizon, beneath a dome of stars and the ghostly light of a thin crescent moon.
- Fussell’s topmost denizens were “out of sight” in hilltop manses at the end of long, curving driveways. Class Dismissed
- I signed the word for juice on his cheek, curving my thumb and forefinger into the shape of the letter C and tracing the movement slowly across his skin.
- The quarrymen had developed long curving saws to make the rough shapes of the stones in situ.
- They have long, conspicuous, forward curving crests on their heads that droop over their eyes and thin, white plumes extending backward from the back of each eye.
- Lowering his quill once more, the ink trailed in a continuous line, curving and twisting on the paper.
- Beyond the shore floated the long canoe, with its curving ends and its emblazonment of the five-pointed stars. Conjuror's House A Romance of the Free Forest
- Rooms are modern in a minimalist way and each has a cool curving wooden balcony with great views across the mountains. Times, Sunday Times
- Along the lakefront a curving sweep of barberry and daylilies terminated at gazebos overarched by old apple and willow trees.
- The cast-in-place piers are graceful, slender, and elegant with curving surfaces, spaced 142 feet apart.