Uncurling

I felt, so slowly as to be almost imperceptible, his fingers uncurling from the railing. ❋ Unknown (2009)

He works this area by curling a dumbbell upward toward his wrist and then uncurling it. ❋ Jen Murphy (2011)

The slow uncurling of each thought as she sought meaning among the swooping shift and eddy of each letter. ❋ Alix Rickloff (2011)

I marveled at the sight of the plant's tender buds and the way they reached for the moonlight with long, tapering, and delicate sprouts, uncurling like tendrils of a fern. ❋ Unknown (2010)

It's a worm a millimetre long made up of only 1,000 cells and I am watching it curling, uncurling and grazing on its bacterial food with a string of its cells brightly illuminated in green. ❋ Unknown (2011)

As always, she looked for signs of anything new, anything green and uncurling, anything to show that summer was on the way and that the land would once again nourish them. ❋ Diane Lee Wilson (2010)

Outside the bedroom window, the Japanese maple leaves are just uncurling, and behind them the cherry tree in full blossom. ❋ Alexandra Carr (2010)

She stood there, curling and uncurling her bare toes in the plush green carpet. ❋ Robin Jones Gunn (2010)

His eyes were hot and cold, uncurling the worm of fear at the base of my spine. ❋ Alice Gray (2010)

She took Kellen's hand and drew it toward her, palm up, uncurling the fingers so she could place the object in his hand. ❋ Michael J. Solender (2010)

Then she lifted her hand higher, stopping it before Sorcha, curling and uncurling her fingers as if she were grasping something on the air. ❋ Sharie Kohler (2010)