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- verb Present participle of
incurve . - adjective
curving inwards
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Examples
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She paused, facing him, her breasts thrust out, her hips at a jaunty angle, the soft incurving line of her slit below.
Office Slave II McKenna, J. W. 2005
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She talked to him winsomely and very kindly as they crossed the open down to meet the next incurving of the coast, and Siegmund was happy.
The Trespasser 2003
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It was but the ghost of a city on which they looked when they cleared a jutting jungle-clad point and swung in toward the incurving shore.
The Conan Chronicles Howard, Robert E. 1989
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It was but the ghost of a city on which they looked when they cleared a jutting, jungle-clad point and swung in toward the incurving shore.
Conan of Cimmeria Howard, Robert E. 1969
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The leaf-stems are long and naked; the leaves are somewhat ovate, lobed at the base, very slightly waved, and, incurving a little over the flower, defend it from frost and wet.
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It is almost rectangular in form for a distance equal to the length of the blade, and then the edges become gradually narrower up to a point that is about 3 centimeters from the end; at this point they expand into a small square with incurving sides.
The Manóbos of Mindanáo Memoirs of the National Academy of Sciences, Volume XXIII, First Memoir John M. Garvan
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The pot is spherical in shape with a wide mouth and a neck which, by its incurving, makes it possible to hang it up by means of a piece of rattan when it is not in use.
The Manóbos of Mindanáo Memoirs of the National Academy of Sciences, Volume XXIII, First Memoir John M. Garvan
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She had neither the raking bow nor the rising poop of the local _mehala_, but a tall incurving beak, not unlike those of certain Mesopotamian sculptures, with a windowed and curtained deck-house at the stern.
The Best Short Stories of 1917 and the Yearbook of the American Short Story Various 1915
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Dong-Yung hid her happiness even as the flowers hide theirs, within silent, incurving petals.
The Best Short Stories of 1919 and the Yearbook of the American Short Story Various 1915
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It was where an uprooted tree, fallen across an incurving bank, made a snug little recess that was closed in on three sides.
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