serpentine
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I step off the restaurant’s orderly little terrace and make a slow serpentine path past makeshift dinner parties.
From Salon ● Aug. 11, 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
His serpentine plot flows to a natural yet shocking conclusion.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 28, 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
Small as was the enclosure, between the espaliers and the flower-beds serpentined minute paths of glistening pebbles.
From In and out of Three Normady Inns by Anna Bowman Dodd
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
It represented a large lady going along a serpentining up-hill gravel-walk, to attend a little church.
From Doctor Marigold by Charles Dickens
Millions of sparks flew from the engine and crossed one another in the darkness, serpentining in long golden lines.
From Tales by Polish Authors by Various
From their elevated perch they had a good view of the serpentining line.
From The Elephant God by Gordon Casserly
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 George Colman
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