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 river wound into the dark forest, cutting its serpentine route into the unknown.
From "Uglies" by Scott Westerfeld
“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
In Tunis an angry mob, forming spontaneously, serpentined through the narrow streets shouting "Down with Italy!" and "Long Live France!"
From Time Magazine Archive
The windings of the poplar-lined road serpentined in sinuous grace in and out of forests, meadows, hills, and islands.
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
From their elevated perch they had a good view of the serpentining line.
From The Elephant God by Gordon Casserly
So! keep looking so My serpentining beauty, rounds on rounds!
From The Home Book of Verse — Volume 2 by Burton Egbert Stevenson
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 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 Lewis R. (Lewis Ransome) Freeman
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