serpentine

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

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

Downtown, where bluffs rise above the serpentine Mississippi River, George Campbell was walking his goldendoodle, Zac, when he spotted a group of National Guard soldiers in fatigues, handguns holstered at their hips.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 29, 2025

Spinks’s chalkwork, with its sweeping, serpentine arrows and carefully crafted letters, was a genuine and delicate art.

From "The Great Santini" by Pat Conroy

“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

That "doughnut" of air under his arms meant that he would probably bob through with dry hair while I serpentined over and under an oar.

From Down the Yellowstone by Lewis R. (Lewis Ransome) Freeman

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

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

We curved the hill and entered a forest of spruce, the path serpentining between the tree-boles, the wheels running silent on immemorial mould.

From From Sea to Sea Letters of Travel by Rudyard Kipling

At dawn they were partly concealed by serpentining ghosts of mist that slowly vanished under the increasing heat; and at sunset the mists stole silently over them again.

From Essays in Rebellion by Henry W. Nevinson

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

From The Elephant God by Gordon Casserly