curve **
curved line old-fashioned

"The government is always trying to keep ahead of the curve."

We are trying now to get ahead of the curve.

Actually, I'm going to be on a big learning curve for a while.

And after a while he worked up a good curve.

The curve of the road had cut him off from their view.

And you can see at least four different curves from here.

I still heard him as he took the next few curves.

We're good together, way ahead of the curve in every department.

They could take us all the way around the curve of space.

The curve in the road was coming up too quickly.

When I got around the curve the staff car was gone.

He turned and looked at the curve ahead, trying to think what to do.

Water use was high early in the curve, but only for a short while.

The rest of the world is behind the learning curve, but not for long.

As I'd thought, she still looked like a little girl on the outside, without any real curves.

New York is well behind the national curve on this issue.

The end of the staff had a curve to it.

We can see to the curve of the earth and beyond.

We hit the first of the curve and ground around it.

After that the road curves more to the north again.

So the effect is that the current curves to the right.

His physical development is, if anything, a little ahead of the curve.

But it looks like I'm still ahead of the curve.

He also usually went for girls with a few more curves.

I curved my face into his hand and let him hold me.

And what does it mean for a line to be curved?

It curved to the right and then back to the left.

To the left of the house was a beach, where the street curved.

As the road curved down to the bottom, a house came into view.

After a moment one side of his mouth curved up.

His long fingers curved over the back of my hand.

The difference is that the arms are more curved down.

There was no line where the land curved away from the sky.

They led down to his left, curving back on themselves.

A smile curved over me as he met my eyes.

To the right, it curved back toward the front of the building and the access road.

It curved ahead, so he could only see a short way, and the top was within reach of his hand.

The drive curved up around the bank of the hill.

She said nothing, her full mouth curved in a smile.

Ahead, the road curved, and I let my foot up a bit.

One side of his mouth curved into a little smile.

The stream curved away into the dark to the left.

One half of her mouth curved up in a smile.

Here the river curved back to join its old bed.

He turned to his right, where the stairs curved as they came up from the first floor.

They were on a rise above it and could see where the course of the river curved out, then back.

The old road curved around the base of a rise.

"And it seems also to be curving to our right."