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 singer also wore white Louboutin heels and a serpentine necklace by Bulgari.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 1, 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
The coastal plain rivers in leaden serpentine across the wasted farmland.
From "The Road" by Cormac McCarthy
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“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
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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
After crossing the bridge over the stream that runs serpentining through the Upper Hadleigh Wood on its way to join the Rod River, they were soon at the Abbey Cross Roads.
From The Devil's Garden by W. B. Maxwell
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
And that Lucretia, his wife! his "serpentining beauty, rounds on rounds!"
From Fragments of an Autobiography by Felix Moscheles
It represented a large lady going along a serpentining up-hill gravel-walk, to attend a little church.
From Doctor Marigold by Charles Dickens
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