What is "curves"

Usage examples of "curves".

It is evident that a small object attached to the free point of a vertically suspended radicle can offer no mechanical resistance to its growth as a whole, for the object is carried downwards as the radicle elongates, or upwards as the radicle curves upwards.

After it has bent to one side, the tip first begins to bend back to the opposite side and then the whole filament curves over in the same direction.

But the blade itself sometimes curves or moves, of which fact Bauhinia offers a striking instance, as the two halves rise up and come into close contact at night.

Whilst the perfect flowers are thus bending down, the whole peduncle curves downwards and increases much in length, until the flowerhead reaches the ground.

Now the exposed sections were tarnished curves of dark metal, the originally sharp edges of the parachute release mechanisms abraded down to warty clusters.

Clouds surged in toward their blades, only to be flung on wild curves by the newborn eddies as they began rotating.

I slid my hands lower, feeling the curves of his buttocks, smooth and free under his kilt.

Victorian notion, Roger brought a hand up over the smooth white curves of hip and flank, and cupped a soft full breast.

I could clearly feel the curves of the child below the thin rubbery covering of skin and muscle.

She refused to notice the way his skin glistened as sunlight streamed over the curves of his damp shoulders.

She parted the gown, revealing the pale curves of her breasts, her skin moist beneath the soft flannel.

The water lapped against her, dissolving the white silk of her gown into a transparent sheen that hugged the curves of her breasts.

He kept smiling as Megan explored the slim line of his nose, the curves of his cheeks, the thick fringes of his black lashes.

Connor followed her trembling fingers as she unfastened her gown, white flannel parting, revealing glimpses of the treasures beneath--the hollow of her neck, the pale curves of her breasts, the shadow of her navel.

He had only an impression of healthy pink skin, elegantly slender curves, and rose-tipped breasts as she ignored the stone stairway and launched herself rnto the water from where she stood, entering it cleanly and shallowly in an arching, graceful dive that sprayed diamond droplets in her wake.