serpentine

The artwork depicts a fantastical creature combining multiple striking features, including a spiral horn, elongated snout, hooked teeth, wings, and a serpentine tail.

From Science Daily ● May 4, 2026

The advance is sometimes serpentine, which is why market volatility should be considered something to monetize—or mostly ignore.

From Barron's ● Dec. 24, 2025

With that as the framework from which “House of Ashur” operates, Tarabay understands the eternal allure of the gladiator as opposed to the serpentine psychological maneuvering of Roman senators.

From Salon ● Dec. 7, 2025

From bag-check to security to the serpentine concourses filled with high-end shops, private airline clubs, restaurants, spas and more, making your way through a supersize airport terminal is like a journey in itself.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 31, 2025

We closed the doors, and then I drove through the serpentine streets of Jefferson Park’s endlessness, the houses all still new-looking and plastic, like a toy village housing tens of thousands of real people.

From "Paper Towns" by John Green

“Through the peaks and valleys and alleyways we serpentined through together you were always there,” he continued.

From Fox News ● Jun. 10, 2019

Downstairs, a line that started forming nearly an hour early had serpentined past racks of fluorescent wigs and novelty socks all the way to the front door.

From New York Times ● Feb. 28, 2019

As they serpentined down the murky Itaquaí, signs of civilization receded.

From Washington Post

Posing as a Swiss traveling salesman, he had serpentined through Germany for eleven days, finally crossed into Switzerland.

From Time Magazine Archive

The first platoon executed troopers by the left flank and the second platoon serpentined in and out.

From Historic Fredericksburg The Story of an Old Town by John T. Goolrick

John Wallace kicked field goals of 37 and 39 yards, the latter coming after Chucky Williams’ serpentining interception return and giving Louisville a one-point lead with 1:25 left in the third.

From Washington Times ● Oct. 30, 2015

Defiling beneath this, they moved into the plain, and, corps by corps, piled their arms and resumed their "route," the white line serpentining along the vast plain, and stretching away into the dim distance.

From Tom Burke Of "Ours", Volume I by Charles James Lever

We have such days, without a breath of air, and two vivid walls of still jungle, and between them a yellow river serpentining under the torrid sun, and a silence which is like deafness.

From The Sea and the Jungle by H. M. (Henry Major) Tomlinson

The river had stolen from the higher tracts and brought in particles to the vale all this horizontal land; and now, exhausted, aged, and attenuated, lay serpentining along through the midst of its former spoils.

From Tess of the d'Urbervilles by Thomas Hardy

From their elevated perch they had a good view of the serpentining line.

From The Elephant God by Gordon Casserly