I.
noun
1 piece of hair
ADJECTIVE
▪ natural
▪ loose , soft , wavy
▪ tight
▪ little
▪ thick
▪ long
▪ corkscrew , spiral
▪ auburn , blonde , dark , etc.
▪ slight
▪
His hair had a slight ~ to it.
▪ stray
▪
She pushed a stray ~ away from her eyes.
▪ tangled , unruly , untamed
▪
She smoothed down her tangled ~s.
▪ damp
VERB + CURL
▪ have
▪
She has beautiful blonde ~s.
▪ press back , push back , smooth back , stroke back
▪ smooth down
▪ ruffle , run your fingers through
▪ tease
▪
He carefully teased his ~s into place.
▪ shake
▪
She shook her dark ~s sadly.
▪ brush
CURL + VERB
▪ fall , tumble
▪
Her auburn ~s tumbled about her face.
▪ hang
▪ bounce
▪ frame sth
▪
Her face was framed by a mop of black ~s.
PREPOSITION
▪ in ~s
▪
His hair spilled in ~s over his forehead.
▪ through the/your ~s
▪
She raked a comb through her ~s.
PHRASES
▪ a cascade of ~s , a mass of ~s , a mop of ~s
▪
Her hair was styled into a cascade of spiral ~s.
▪ lose its ~
▪
Her hair lost its ~ as she got older.
2 sth with a curved round shape
ADJECTIVE
▪ faint
▪
He acknowledged her remark with a faint ~ of his lips.
PREPOSITION
▪ ~ of
▪
a ~ of smoke
II.
verb
ADVERB
▪ tightly
▪ slightly
▪ back , up
▪
She ~ed her legs up under her.
PREPOSITION
▪ around , round ( esp. BrE )
▪
His fingers ~ed tightly around the steering wheel.
▪ from
▪
Smoke was ~ing up from the chimney.
▪ into
▪
The cat ~ed into a ball and fell asleep.
PHRASES
▪ ~ed up
▪
She was lying ~ed up on her bed.
▪ ~ (up) at the edges
▪
The photograph was brown and ~ing at the edges.
Curl is used with these nouns as the subject: ↑ fist , ↑ hair , ↑ lip , ↑ mouth , ↑ smoke , ↑ toe
Curl is used with these nouns as the object: ↑ eyelash , ↑ finger , ↑ hair , ↑ lip , ↑ toe