How to Use corkscrew in a Sentence

corkscrew

1 of 3 noun
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  • The worm of my corkscrew went through the wax just fine.
    — Dave McIntyre, Washington Post, 8 Sep. 2022
  • Their black corkscrew hair sets them apart from the pack.
    — Country Living, 1 May 2023
  • The out-of-nowhere corkscrew chapel of Thanks-Giving Square.
    — Mark Lamster, Dallas News, 15 May 2020
  • To use, simply screw the corkscrew into the cork and the wings will rise.
    — Maya Polton, Better Homes & Gardens, 10 Jan. 2023
  • The lady opens the bottle with one of those old corkscrews with arms that open on the side.
    — Kara Baskin, BostonGlobe.com, 9 July 2018
  • There’s no corkscrew or glass needed, and the Sofia mini even comes with a straw.
    — Krishna Thakker, Fortune, 26 July 2017
  • What awaits us beyond the maelstrom, far along the z-axis, at the corkscrew’s end?
    — Anthony Lydgate, WIRED, 6 Sep. 2022
  • The corkscrew went into the soil like an ice pick through a hamburger.
    — Ryan D'agostino, Popular Mechanics, 24 Oct. 2020
  • Tell your friends to put away that corkscrew for good, this electric machine is more than up to the task.
    — Kirsten Chanel Webber, Rolling Stone, 31 Oct. 2023
  • This is of course, not to say that only black women wear corkscrew curls.
    — Chaédria Labouvier, Allure, 26 Oct. 2017
  • My corkscrew is a hand-me-down from my great-grandfather.
    — Chris Kornelis, WSJ, 26 Sep. 2017
  • The corkscrew has an easy-to-use, two-step lever, and two liquor pourers to reduce the risk of messy spills from a bottle.
    — Belle Duchene, Better Homes & Gardens, 14 Aug. 2023
  • Tell Sarah to leave her amaro at home, and when Brian asks for the corkscrew, tell him it’s in the backyard…somewhere.
    — Alex Delany, Bon Appetit, 2 Feb. 2018
  • Let your corkscrew be your passport to wine adventure in the year ahead.
    — Dave McIntyre, Washington Post, 5 Jan. 2023
  • One of those flips, a corkscrew at 197 feet above the ground, sets a world record for highest inversion.
    — Susan Glaser, cleveland.com, 11 July 2019
  • What looked like a back-and-forth wiggle in 2D now appears more like a corkscrew motion.
    — Scientific American, 30 Aug. 2019
  • Forget pulling and twisting a corkscrew to open your wine, the Wine Ziz opens up your bottle through an air pump.
    — Popular Science, 8 Nov. 2019
  • The inside comes with four plates, a knife, corkscrew and a removable cutting board.
    — The Good Housekeeping Institute, Good Housekeeping, 11 July 2017
  • After taking off the foil, start by removing the corkscrew's sheath and slide it into the cork.
    — Dana Rose Falcone, chicagotribune.com, 22 Feb. 2021
  • Just carry a corkscrew in your purse like a normal person.
    — Connie Ogle, miamiherald, 5 Oct. 2017
  • Crawford posed next to her husband wearing a two-tone dress, corkscrew curls, and white fur stole.
    — Ashley Edwards Walker, Glamour, 29 Oct. 2017
  • Picture a ladder that twists like a corkscrew, with the sugar and phosphate acting as the side rails and the base pairs acting as the rungs.
    — Ryan Rossotto, National Geographic, 12 June 2019
  • For some reason, my group always seems to wind up at a cabin that’s missing a corkscrew.
    — Bryan Rogala, Outside Online, 26 Nov. 2019
  • The Ipow corkscrew wine opener is the most reliable version of this classic tech.
    — Popular Science, 8 Nov. 2019
  • But its seductions come and go, a dance here, a ragtime riff there, another twist in the corkscrew plot.
    — Alexis Soloski, New York Times, 9 Apr. 2018
  • No more struggling with manual corkscrews, this can pop up to 30 corks on a single charge.
    — Claire Rutter, Rolling Stone, 25 Oct. 2023
  • This stainless steel tool has a worm-like squiggle at the bottom that allows you to twist it like a corkscrew to mix and aerate your pile.
    — Popular Science, 30 Apr. 2020
  • And this inventory doesn’t account for the corkscrews scattered elsewhere in the house or, well, in the luggage.
    — Dave McIntyre, Washington Post, 9 Aug. 2019
  • The Corbly Trail corkscrews up under the north overlook and lets you out at the top parking area, and the Sullivan Trail, too, climbs up the eastern slope of the knob.
    — Maggie Menderski, The Courier-Journal, 6 June 2019
  • In a corkscrew of purple smoke there is a flickering light, no bigger than a pinhole.
    — Dave Eggers, The New Yorker, 11 Oct. 2020
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corkscrew

2 of 3 adjective
  • Seth Rollins hit a corkscrew frog splash that had to be seen to be believed.
    — Alfred Konuwa, Forbes, 11 Apr. 2021
  • A couple of times my fingers got pinched in the corkscrew opener’s arms, cut open and bled.
    — Los Angeles Times, 5 Jan. 2023
  • Twist the felt into a corkscrew shape to complete the tail and attach with a small safety pin.
    — Amanda Garrity, Good Housekeeping, 9 Sep. 2020
  • The set also comes with two pieces of chalk, three slate labels, and a corkscrew wine opener.
    — Sarah Yang, Sunset Magazine, 9 May 2023
  • Of course, there’s a corkscrew and corduroy wine duffel ready for that bottle of rosé, too.
    — Stephanie Cain, Fortune, 11 June 2021
  • Or, as in my case, in digits sliced by a corkscrew bottle opener.
    — Los Angeles Times, 5 Jan. 2023
  • Some corkscrew-style wine openers have lots of moving parts and can be pretty tricky to use.
    — Maya Polton, Better Homes & Gardens, 10 Jan. 2023
  • The corkscrew design was a copy of gun worms used in the 1600s to remove unspent charges jammed in a musket’s barrel.
    — Chris Dorsey, Forbes, 11 July 2022
  • And as Ron and Madison start seeing each other, with her husband still in the way, the film becomes a kind of noir with corkscrew twists.
    — Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 5 Sep. 2023
  • And because jets are thought to align with the axis of the disk, a precessing disk should also produce a corkscrew jet.
    — science.org, 25 Apr. 2023
  • It’s the only indoor double-corkscrew, double-loop roller coaster in the world.
    — Robin Raven, Forbes, 30 Sep. 2021
  • The soft foam was gentle on muscles, while the corkscrew design of the inner piece was enough to offer plenty of relief.
    — Rennie Dyball, Peoplemag, 22 Mar. 2023
  • Stradlin’s effortless cool and writing talents were the perfect foil for Slash’s corkscrew licks and hot tone.
    — Matt Wake | Mwake@al.com, al, 30 Jan. 2022
  • Use a small barrel curling iron for all-over corkscrew curls, or use heatless hair curlers sized for corkscrew or spiral curls.
    — Myranda Mondry, Allure, 26 June 2023
  • The film then pivots to Sherald, who appears in head-to-toe denim, her collar popped and grazing her corkscrew curls.
    — Christine Turner, The New Yorker, 30 July 2022
  • That turned out to be too much for the guidance system to compensate, and the vehicle started tumbling in a corkscrew path.
    — Kenneth Chang, New York Times, 20 Apr. 2023
  • The corkscrew braid, as her hairstylist Kellon Deryck calls it, falls way below Megan's waist, reaching past her knees.
    — Gabi Thorne, Allure, 23 Sep. 2020
  • Miller, putting a spin of effrontery on every line, is the perfect actor to play this corkscrew superhero.
    — Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 6 June 2023
  • Though most of the nail looks black, the corkscrew portion had a golden hue that complemented her overall black-and-gold ensemble.
    — Gabi Thorne, Allure, 2 May 2022
  • Then there is a peeler, a corkscrew, ice tongs, tweezers, a Mint Julep strainer, a Hawthorne strainer, a fine mesh strainer, a lemon zester, and a citrus squeezer.
    — Michael Goldstein, Forbes, 18 June 2022
  • The corkscrew willow branches were painted red, the weeping willow branches white.
    — Joanne Kempinger Demski, Journal Sentinel, 15 Dec. 2022
  • This flying coaster puts riders face down and features a corkscrew first drop, a 124-foot pretzel loop and a total of four inversions.
    — Forrest Brown, CNN, 30 Apr. 2023
  • The only equipment needed, advised Church, was a good corkscrew, general purpose wine glasses, and a wine rack.
    — Carol Flynn, chicagotribune.com, 17 Dec. 2020
  • As Srinivasan’s business profile has grown, his political ideas have undergone a few twists of the corkscrew.
    — Anthony Lydgate, WIRED, 6 Sep. 2022
  • The spiral increases the wave’s speed in an angularly dependent way, leading to a corkscrew wave.
    — Chris Lee, Ars Technica, 2 Mar. 2022
  • In the courtyard, an old man in a blue polo and a rumpled bathing suit was trying to coax a captive kudu—a species of large antelope, with corkscrew horns—into standing with him for a selfie.
    — Ben Taub, The New Yorker, 16 May 2022
  • As per the hair typing system created by hairstylist Andre Walker, 3C hair is defined as tight curls that are shaped in a corkscrew shape.
    — Jada Jackson, Allure, 16 Nov. 2022
  • Once safely out of reach of predators, the seals experience sleep paralysis and spiral down in a corkscrew pattern like falling leaves — and wake up in time to keep from drowning.
    — Ashley Strickland, CNN, 22 Apr. 2023
  • Natural light pours into the latter space from three windows and a slider to a 242-square-foot waterfront-facing new deck with white supports, wire railings, and a corkscrew staircase to the backyard.
    — John R. Ellement, BostonGlobe.com, 19 Apr. 2023
  • Midcorner bumps can set the body into a corkscrew motion, and hitting one usually results in a shock reverberating through the cabin.
    — Joe Lorio, Car and Driver, 6 June 2023
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corkscrew

3 of 3 verb
  • On the other end, Ball corkscrewed a three that went in.
    — Mark Whicker, Orange County Register, 19 Mar. 2017
  • The porch off the owner’s suite has corkscrew stairs to the 300-square-foot private deck.
    — Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com, 22 Jan. 2021
  • And their many, many legs may give them more power to push and corkscrew their way through the earth, Dr. Marek said.
    — New York Times, 16 Dec. 2021
  • The central corkscrew and two blade-like side prongs work in tandem to slide the cork out of the bottle with ease every time.
    — Mike Desimone and Jeff Jenssen, Robb Report, 18 Nov. 2022
  • In the second video, a Reaper-like drone is seen corkscrewing through the air, falling straight down, on fire and missing a wing.
    — Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 2 Oct. 2017
  • A charged particle in the very short-term can still be thought of as corkscrewing around a single field line.
    — Chris Lee, Ars Technica, 9 June 2017
  • After discarding the foil from the neck of the bottle, place the corkscrew atop the wine bottle with the lever in the upward position.
    — Dana Rose Falcone, chicagotribune.com, 22 Feb. 2021
  • At the flick of another switch, the massive metal corkscrew started to turn.
    — Alli Harvey, Anchorage Daily News, 24 Apr. 2021
  • The light emerges looking like a helix corkscrewing around a central point.
    — Adam Mann, National Geographic, 27 June 2019
  • Now the animal starts to corkscrew like a crashing warplane.
    — Jose A. Del Real, Washington Post, 6 Nov. 2022
  • The real risk-takers make a beeline for the corkscrewing tubular Black Slides.
    — Blaine and Birch Bay, The Seattle Times, 3 Aug. 2017
  • The stern, lacking a hydrodynamic leading edge like the bow, tumbled and corkscrewed for more than two miles down to the ocean floor.
    — National Geographic, 22 Aug. 2019
  • Avery is a woman of color, with green eyes, corkscrew hair, light-brown skin, and a prominent nose.
    — Ayana Mathis, The Atlantic, 11 May 2021
  • Cerecedo’s passion for the niche world of the collectible corkscrew that first captivates you.
    — Chris Dorsey, Forbes, 11 July 2022
  • Narrow pathways corkscrewed tributes to her bent spine.
    — Allan Gurganus, The New Yorker, 27 Apr. 2020
  • Take a break from effort and let this automatic electric corkscrew from Rabbit do all the work for you!
    — Maya Polton, Better Homes & Gardens, 30 Jan. 2023
  • The corkscrew-like von economo neurons are thought to allow rapid communication across the brain.
    — Sandee Lamotte, CNN, 26 Nov. 2022
  • It's made by Rabbit, a top brand in the uncorking business, and features an electric corkscrew that recharges in the base and can open 30 bottles of vino per charge.
    — Rachel Klein, Popular Mechanics, 7 Dec. 2022
  • When the sun hangs low in the sky, the colors and contours of the hills deepen, and photographers line the roadway that corkscrews up a thousand feet above the surrounding landscape.
    — Matthew Kronsberg, WSJ, 27 July 2018
  • There’s a shaker, muddler, strainer, spoon, corkscrew, tongs, jigger, and two liquor pourers.
    — Kevin Cortez, Popular Mechanics, 25 Oct. 2022
  • Horn shapes vary, though Struthoff noted the three most common on Texas longhorns are horns that point up at the ends like goalposts, simple lateral horns and corkscrew horns that have a twist.
    — René A. Guzman, San Antonio Express-News, 18 Feb. 2021
  • And people liked listing every last corkscrew used as a percussion instrument on the record.
    — Craig Jenkins, Vulture, 12 Oct. 2022
  • The differences at this point are chiefly visual, Sky's involving what looks to be a massive, corkscrewing cloudscape set against a cerulean sky.
    — Matt Peckham, Time, 12 Sep. 2017
  • Beneath the dark canopy, vines corkscrew around bulbous trunks and palms burst up like giant shuttlecocks from the dense foliage underfoot.
    — Sophy Roberts, Condé Nast Traveler, 28 Mar. 2017
  • Another boy hugged the metal corkscrew slide before heading home.
    — Matthias Gafni, SFChronicle.com, 6 Dec. 2020
  • Paige put a corkscrew-like needle into her hip bone and extracted healthy stem cells in her bone marrow, which are then spun through a centrifuge to isolate only the stem cells.
    — Maggie Menderski, The Courier-Journal, 21 July 2022
  • His signature corkscrew windup was swiftly immortalized in the minds of baseball fans.
    — NBC News, 7 Sep. 2021
  • And thanks to West Elm, this gorgeous wicker basket with leatherette straps is packed to the gills with accessories — four porcelain plates, four forks, four knives, four spoons, four wine glasses and one corkscrew, to be exact.
    — Courtney Thompson, CNN Underscored, 28 Aug. 2020
  • The shakers, dual jigger, cocktail strainer, muddler for cocktail, ice tongs, corkscrew, liquor pourers and more are all made of food-grade, rust-proof, durable stainless steel.
    — Michael Goldstein, Forbes, 18 June 2022
  • It's fully lined and comes with napkins, tablecloth, porcelain plates, wine glasses, flatware, a cutting board, corkscrew, and salt and pepper shakers.
    — Arricca Elin Sansone, Woman's Day, 4 Jan. 2023

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