tendril

Example Sentences

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A few painstaking moments later and he has freed his bounty—a small caterpillar perhaps an inch long, caked in earth with a reddish tendril of fungus sprouting from its head.

From National Geographic • Jan. 4, 2024

There, poking up through the soil, was a tiny green tendril.

From Los Angeles Times • May 31, 2023

A twisty tendril of vapor in white-to-red ombre could be seen snaking behind a bright white light in parts of South Korea’s sky Friday evening.

From Washington Times • Dec. 30, 2022

On a fall day at Duwamish Head Greenbelt, a strip of forest sandwiched between Harbor Avenue Southwest and Southwest Admiral Way in West Seattle, 68-year-old volunteer Doug Adams stumbles over a tendril.

From Seattle Times • Nov. 2, 2022

It shares roots, of course, with tending—a farmer’s or gardener’s activity—but also with tension, the stretching of a pea tendril to incline it toward sunlight or to train it on an arbor.

From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee