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
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
The stone, set in a serpentine ring, once belonged to Rachel Lambert Mellon, better known as Bunny Mellon, a US horticulturalist, philanthropist and art collector.
From Barron's ● Nov. 11, 2025
Downtown, where bluffs rise above the serpentine Mississippi River, George Campbell was walking his goldendoodle, Zac, when he spotted a group of National Guard soldiers in fatigues, handguns holstered at their hips.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 29, 2025
She was racing headlong down the serpentine steps when a man lurched out of a hidden doorway.
From "A Clash of Kings" by George R.R. Martin
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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
Posing as a Swiss traveling salesman, he had serpentined through Germany for eleven days, finally crossed into Switzerland.
From Time Magazine Archive
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Small as was the enclosure, between the espaliers and the flower-beds serpentined minute paths of glistening pebbles.
From In and out of Three Normady Inns by Dodd, Anna Bowman
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
And that Lucretia, his wife! his "serpentining beauty, rounds on rounds!"
From Fragments of an Autobiography by Moscheles, Felix
Toby, his rage thus vented in the rap, Went serpentining home, to take his nap.
From Broad Grins Comprising, With New Additional Tales in Verse, Those Formerly Publish'd Under the Title "My Night-Gown and Slippers." by Colman, George
So! keep looking so— My serpentining beauty, rounds on rounds!
From Robert Browning: How to Know Him by Phelps, William Lyon
At dawn they were partly concealed by serpentining ghosts of mist that slowly vanished under the increasing heat; and at sunset the mists stole silently over them again.
From Essays in Rebellion by Nevinson, Henry W.
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