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Definition of "uncoils" [uncoils]

  • Third-person singular simple present indicative form of uncoil. (verb)

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Use "uncoils" in a sentence
  • "She nails every syllable of Porter's tricky lyrics to the back wall of the theater—in "You're the Top" she even gives the uncanny impression that she's making them up on the spot—and when she uncoils her mile-long legs and flicks a forward pass at Mr. Donnell in the first scene, you'll whoop with delight."
  • "When I tumbled out of the basket of invisibility into the shadow of the mosque, I had been rescued by rebellion from the abstraction of numbness ...... and the snake uncoils, faster faster Picture Singh plays until the flute's music fills every cranny of the slum and threatens to scale the walls of the mosque ..."
  • "There is something subtly contrary about this band: their most enigmatic song bears the name Warpaint, while their least-composed song – which opens in a fury of shouted vocals and uncoils in a meandering jam of slowly detuned guitars – is called Composure."
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