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serpentine

[sur-puhn-teen, -tahyn] / ˈsɜr pənˌtin, -ˌtaɪn /


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She sees the serpentine stretch of the river as a natural highway that connects Angelenos from the San Fernando Valley to Long Beach.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 13, 2026

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

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

The stone, set in a serpentine ring, once belonged to Rachel Lambert Mellon, better known as Bunny Mellon, a US horticulturalist, philanthropist and art collector.

From Barron's Nov. 11, 2025

The train’s silent, serpentine progress gave them a line to follow.

From "The Long-Lost Home" by Maryrose Wood

“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

A wild and stony country, a range of high mountains on the left, wide, flat plains on the right, through which the Corrib serpentined, with big rocks rising from the channel brilliantly white.

From Ireland as It Is And as It Would be Under Home Rule by Buckley, Robert John

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

The bottom of the valley continued fairly open for a few miles, with the swollen stream serpentining across it, turned hither and thither by huge logjams and fortress-like rock islands.

From Down the Columbia by Freeman, Lewis R. (Lewis Ransome)

Toby, his rage thus vented in the rap, Went serpentining home, to take his nap.

From Broad Grins Comprising, With New Additional Tales in Verse, Those Formerly Publish'd Under the Title "My Night-Gown and Slippers." by Colman, George

So! keep looking so—25 My serpentining beauty, rounds on rounds!

From Selections from the Poems and Plays of Robert Browning by Reynolds, Myra

So! keep looking so My serpentining beauty, rounds on rounds!

From The Home Book of Verse — Volume 2 by Stevenson, Burton Egbert




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