Not straight

Usage examples of curved.

Then it was executives, whose gold watch chains, adangle with tiny email-boxes, phones, torches, snuffboxes, and other fetishes, curved round the dark waistcoats they wore to deemphasize their bellies.

It swooped and curved, arcing over the tops of the buildings and careering in spirals, a dimly glimpsed display of virtuoso aerobatics, a shadowy circus.

All three were curved scimitars made by the annourers of Shah Jahan at Agra on the Indian continent.

When, as in the above cases, radicles encountered an obstacle at right angles to their course, the terminal growing part became curved for a length of between .

The nutty little curved beak looked as if it were capable of doing damage, but Archimedes looked closely at the mouse, blinked at the Wart, moved nearer on the finger, closed his eyes and leaned forward.

Aztecs, the Arkies had metal weapons, the favorite being an implement with a long handle ending in a curved blade on one side and a spike on the other.

Saryn, looking up from where she smoothed a curved backpiece for what looked to be a chair.

Turning around from time to time, to keep her bearings, she noticed the wall by the evesmol resembled a curved sheet of window glass, vividly displaying the outside reddish bronze escarpment of the caldera.

Jon Becken seemed comfortable steering the boat so Nevyan let him and knelt down on the curved deck.

The curvature often amounts to a rectangle,--that is, the terminal part bends upwards until the tip, which is but little curved, projects almost horizontally.

Eyes the color of black diamonds sparkled back at her, lips that would make a sculptor weep curved reassuringly.

She lifted a brow, and he marveled at the way her brows curved up at the ends.

When Tupelov at last emerged from the flagship, alone, he could see the vast, curved cagework of the Taj soaring away from him in at least three spatial dimensions.

It curved away from a curving street called Camelia Lane, and kept right on curving, sometimes to the right and sometimes to the left.

Here and there, the silvery foliage of a clump of candlenut trees contrasted with the dark green of the bush, and scattered coconut palms curved up gracefully to their fronded tops, sixty or seventy feet above the earth.