serpentine
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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
His serpentine plot flows to a natural yet shocking conclusion.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 28, 2025
They were driving through a valley jam-packed with rows of houses wrapped around hillsides like serpentine belts.
From "Book Scavenger" by Jennifer Chambliss Bertman
“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
And when it was all over, you cheered and howled and serpentined and felt big as hell.
From The Plastic Age by Percy Marks
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
Then the rapture overflows the spectator's brain, and the Master, arrayed in a serpentining garment, appears in the path before him.
From A Handbook to the Works of Browning (6th ed.) by Mrs. Sutherland Orr
From the frontier of Bhutan, six thousand feet up on the face of the mountains, a line of men wound down the serpentining track that led to Ranga Duar.
From The Jungle Girl by Gordon Casserly
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
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