If the surface is a plane, then the shortest curve is a line.

The route makes a short curve to the northeast, and returns to the north soon after.

Travelers with the Tour were warned beforehand that the descent was especially dangerous because of its many short curves and steep grades.

This generalization can be used to prove that the shortest curve between two points in Euclidean geometry is a straight line.

Also included in the joint committee were short curves linking the partners lines.

He sprinted around the short curve of the main deck to the bridge.

As he emerged around the short curve, Harry Vincent gasped.

A short curve joined the two lines.

Roughly a mile or so north of there, it takes a short curve to the west and then returns back to the same northwest angle.

The bar, a short, heavy curve of oak, occupied one corner of the room to the left of the entrance.