Sentence examples for corkscrew from inspiring English sources

Parents of this age group will need little encouragement to get them to bed on time; they've probably already got a corkscrew in one hand on their way up the stairs.

This can often happen in fog and very low cloud, but this was a fine sunny day.Although it was impossible to see the runway obliquely through the pollution, I caught a glimpse of the runway from vertically above and was able to corkscrew down to a landing with apologies to a civil aircraft behind me who was equally keen to land.

After the boosters had run out of fuel and been jettisoned as planned, the rocket started rotating like a corkscrew.

Mercifully, both landed safely.Nerve-jangling corkscrew manoeuvres which were once necessary to avert such incidents at BIAP are now a distant memory.

The cosmic corkscrew Hitch-hiking parasites ReprintsTransferring genes between species of plant is nothing new.

Dr Benford reckons the Snake is actually something like a corkscrew shape seen side-on.Such knowledge may not be entirely esoteric.

Buy from Amazon.com, Amazon.co.ukWITH her fountain of irrepressible corkscrew curls, it is hardly surprising that Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie is preoccupied with hair.

In particular, duck vaginas are often equipped with additional passages that have blind endings, and frequently corkscrew in a clockwise direction, in contradistinction to the anticlockwise thread of a drake's penis.Dr Brennan interprets these anatomical flourishes as anti-insemination mechanisms.

Toomer, who designed some 80 rides for Arrow, worked on the company's helix-shaped corkscrew coaster, which first appeared at Knott's Berry Farm (Buena Park, Calif). in 1975.

One variety, S. matsudana tortuosa, is called corkscrew willow for its twisted branches.

As in all of Bovidae, all male antelopes have horns, which range from the short spikes of duikers to the corkscrew horns (more than 160 cm [63 inches] long) of the greater kudu.