How do you use the word "curl" in a sentence?

Q: How do you use the word "curl" in a sentence?

Here are real-life examples of using "curl": On colder days, they curl up or dig a hole in the snow. It's not the mode for young girls to curl their bangs.

Curl Meaning

/kɜːl/

Definition, CEFR level B1, pronunciation, examples, and quiz.

Definition

nounA curving piece or lock of hair; a ringlet.

nounA curved stroke or shape.

Sentence Examples

On colder days, they curl up or dig a hole in the snow.

It's not the mode for young girls to curl their bangs.

Synonyms & Antonyms

Synonyms:

lock roll coil

Antonyms:

None

CEFR Practice Quiz

She used a hot iron to ____ her straight hair into ringlets.

CEFR Practice Quiz (Alternate)

On colder days, they ____ up or dig a hole in the snow.

Word Origin & History

From metathesis of Middle English crulle (“curled, curly”), of uncertain origin but probably from an unrecorded Old English word or from Middle Dutch crul, crulle (“curl”), ultimately from Proto-Germanic *kruzlǭ (“bent or crooked object, curl”), connected to *krūsą (“curl”), of unknown origin. Cognate with Saterland Frisian Krulle (“curl, lock”), West Frisian krul (“curl”), Dutch krul (“curl”), German Low German Krull (“curl”), dialectal German Krolle (“curl”), Danish krølle (“curl”), Norwegian Bokmål krøll (“curl”). Related also to Saterland Frisian Kruus (“curl”), German kraus (“frizzy, crumpled, curly”), Danish krus (“curl”), Swedish krusa (“to crimp, curl”). Compare also Gothic 𐌺𐍂𐌹𐌿𐍃𐍄𐌰𐌽 (kriustan, “to grind, crush, gnash”).

Literary Quotations & Historical Citations

"[…]she took it down, looked long and fondly at it, then, shaking her curls about her face, as if to hide the act, pressed it to her lips and seemed to weep over it in an uncontrollable paroxysm of tender grief." — 1866, Louisa May Alcott, chapter 7, in Behind A Mask or, A Woman's Power:

"Serene, smiling, enigmatic, she faced him with no fear whatever showing in her dark eyes.[…]She put back a truant curl from her forehead where it had sought egress to the world, and looked him full in the face now, drawing a deep breath which caused the round of her bosom to lift the lace at her throat." — 1910, Emerson Hough, chapter 1, in The Purchase Price:

"The face which emerged was not reassuring.[…]. He was not a mongol but there was a deficiency of a sort there, and it was not made more pretty by a latter-day hair cut which involved eccentrically long elf-locks and oiled black curls." — 1963, Margery Allingham, chapter 17, in The China Governess: A Mystery, London: Chatto & Windus, →OCLC:

"[…] the backs of their necks and their forelegs are decorated with curls and their necks and bodies are covered with fine, undulating lines." — 1995, John Curtis, Julian Reade, Dominique Collon, Art and Empire: Treasures from Assyria in the British Museum, page 184:

"It is possible to use the wind which blows from the left to the right by playing well into the wind with the slightest bit of curl on the ball[…]" — 1909, Harold Horsfall Hilton, The Six Handicap Golfer's Companion, page 38:

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