What is "curl up"

Usage examples of "curl up".

There was a huge tub big enough for Sesame to curl up in so she could sleep in water after all, and a lovely sandbox for Sammy.

Right now she would give anything if her own emotions had been that protected, so she wouldn't be about to collapse and curl up in a fetal knot from the pain of it.

She'd wanted nothing more than to curl up in his arms and find oblivion, so when he actually did take her in his arms, she caved with embarrassing speed.

The very thought of that made me curl up on my car's seat and hug my knees to my chest, an awkward position considering my height and the comparatively cramped confines of the Beetle.

It was so nice to curl up with Roger and be warm in our bed, after a wet, chilly day.

There was only a sense of burrowing down, down deep inside him, of finding that metaphysical hiding place where the beast lay and having my beast curl up, for a moment, inside his most secret space, while his beast did the same in me.

As he read, questions began to curl up in his mind like wisps of smoke.

She wanted to curl up in the king-size bed She would have, too, if Harvard hadn't been there.

She was relieved to see the edge of the leaf blacken, then a little smoke curl up.

He was no better than the dogs, sleeping wherever he found a corner to curl up in.

Just think what a pleasure 'twill be to curl up in a soft, toasty bed while a fire crackles on the hearth and the snow falls outside your window.

The thin thread of smoke began to curl up toward the vent of the air-filtration system.

I just wanted to curl up around the pain and sleep but I fought it.