squiggle

The off-white form of the rustic terracotta jar, shattered over millenniums and fastidiously reassembled, is elegantly decorated in rich brown and black designs, including bursts of rosettes and abstract squiggles.

In this script, the lines of good and evil aren’t drawn in black and white or even gray — they’re a tangle of squiggles.

His figures, drawn in thin, nervous squiggles, stood out starkly against a plain background.

The genus name uncus means “hook” in Latin, after the fishhooklike squiggles on the rock left by the fossils.

"That's what happened here. We had all sort of noticed this fishhook squiggle on the rock. It was pretty prominent because it was really, really deep."