Definition: 1. Not straight; having or marked by a curve or smoothly rounded bend.
Use 'curved' in a sentence:
1. The legs, which are slightly curved with tiny hooks on the tips of their feet to provide enough friction to enable movement in a slippery environment.
2. The ball really follows a smooth curved path, so why do batters sometimes look so foolish swinging at them?
3. The feat is not just a parlour trick—it could help people visualise how light travels in the curved fabric of space.
4. The curved davit arms extended over the open portion of deck.
5. The Shanghai Grand Theater designed by the French firm Charpentier et Associes is striking for its curved roof.
6. He'd been so patient. He'd suggested everything – gold rims, the kind that curved round your ears, little pads inside the bridge.
7. Boat wakes appear as slightly curved lines, accentuated by the pastel tones of the oil slick.
8. It's a sculpture carved from the tusk of a mammoth—it must have been towards the end of the tusk, because it's slim, slightly curved.
9. The arrow curved through the air beautifully.
10. She also explains that a curved or pieced waistband is ideal for flattering all shapes.'
11. Most antennas are made in the shape of a dish to collect and reflect the radio waves to the sub reflector, in the same way as a curved mirror focuses visible light to one point.
12. Near the plowed fields curved and faded, and the few hogs nosing in the furrows looked like large spotted stones.
13. This led her to create designs ranging from sweeping curved fences intended to reduce the stress experienced by animals that were going to be killed to systems for handling sick cattle and pigs.
14. You need to consider the shape of the pocket, for instance, a diagonal or curved pocket, or a vertical pocket.
15. Dickon curved his wide smiling mouth.
16. He was struggling to find the right equations that would describe his new concept of gravity, ones that would define how objects move through space and how space is curved by objects.
17. The curved upper surface of a nonturbulent liquid in a container that is concave if the liquid wets the container walls.
18. There is not a straight piece of glass in this building. It's all curved.
19. Raven has a curved beak.
20. The curved glass had a magnifying effect, like a lens.
21. Her mouth curved in an off-centre smile.
22. Like a telescope, it has a curved mirror to collect the sunlight.
23. Irving Fisher also drew on the curve, a production possibility frontier for society, which he made downward-curved.
24. The road curved to the left.
25. The track curved away below him.
26. Like a telescope it has a curved mirror to collect the sunlight.
27. A small, unobtrusive smile curved the cook's thin lips.
28. Her spine curved.
29. The car wheels screeched as they curved and bounced over the rough broken ground.
30. His lips curved in a smile.
31. A smile curved his lips.
32. His lips curved up in the obligatory smile, acknowledging the compliment.
33. The water curved round the rocks in great bursts of foam.
34. The road curved around the bay.
35. That invention was the arch, a curved structure originally made of separate stone or brick segments.
36. It seemed to take Sirius an age to fall: his body curved in a graceful arc as he sank backward through the ragged veil hanging from the arch.
37. Last year, an anchor weighing seven stones was also discovered at the site after excavators uncovered curved timbers that a backhoe brought up.
