sinuous

IPA: sˈɪnwʌs

adjective

  • Having curves in alternate directions; meandering.
  • Moving gracefully and in a supple manner.
  • (figurative) Morally crooked; shifty.
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Examples of "sinuous" in Sentences

  • The river is sinuous.
  • The frass is deposited in sinuous curves.
  • The outer lip is sinuous, produced forward above.
  • A sinuous rille runs along the length of this valley.
  • It is possible that the trajectory is bended, or sinuous.
  • The sections may also be curved to provide a sinuous track.
  • The deck snakes its way across the river in a sinuous curve.
  • The overall tube is curved or sinuous, and occasionally branches.
  • Some of these secondary craters form sinuous chains in the ejecta.
  • The outer margin of the band is straight while the inner is highly sinuous.
  • Or how about neon that followed the contours of natural objects, such as trees or rocks, in sinuous organic shapes, as part of the Queen's garden?
  • When it was over and they'd gone -- the fat woman again somehow managing a gait which could only be called sinuous -- Bors said abruptly, "What's this event you know of, a year ahead?"
  • This collection takes the somatic marks of classicism: the curved, the leg, the serigraphy on the crystals and changes them in sinuous shapes, gentle and modern, joining them to perfection.
  • While it looks very artificial with limited aperture and possibly like it could have been formed by a glancing blow from a small asteroid, it's actually a volcanic/tectonic feature called a sinuous rille.
  • And the way he played the guitar, he was able to get that kind of sinuous vibrato that creates this texture and bed of melodic fragments laid on top of each other - perfect for a string quartet like Turtle Island.
  • Wreathed attractively in sinuous tendrils of aromatic smoke we discussed the infringement of property rights, the misrepresentation of passive smoking and the bovine passivity of the nation confronted with this outrage.
  • And it is still more remarkable that those young ladies were "got up" in the same style, and apparently aimed at much the same effects of line and movement, as those which have become the latest fashion in Paris, and may be described as sinuous and serpentine.

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