serpentine

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

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

A knight stands in the road, his shoulders rising and falling, his sword in its scabbard casting a serpentine shadow on the ground.

From "The Inquisitor's Tale" by Adam Gidwitz

“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

Rivulets of water, skillfully led in along tiny grooves, serpentined among the parterres, half hidden in rare and brilliant flowers.

From A Midsummer Drive Through the Pyrenees by Edwin Asa Dix

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 Lewis R. (Lewis Ransome) Freeman

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

Gullies and vertical rifts scored the highway serpentining hither and thither, the chasms gaping to swallow the Gloria or at least bite off a wheel.

From The Car of Destiny by Armand Both

Defiling beneath this, they moved into the plain, and, corps by corps, piled their arms and resumed their "route," the white line serpentining along the vast plain, and stretching away into the dim distance.

From Tom Burke Of "Ours", Volume I by Charles James Lever