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
His serpentine plot flows to a natural yet shocking conclusion.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 28, 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
Harry could see him now, see the red eyes, the flattened, serpentine face, the pallor of him gleaming slightly in the semidarkness.
From "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows" by J.K. Rowling
“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
A brook serpentined through fields and groves of trees.
From David and the Phoenix by Joan Raysor
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
Gullies and vertical rifts scored the highway serpentining hither and thither, the chasms gaping to swallow the Gloria or at least bite off a wheel.
From The Car of Destiny by Armand Both
The bottom of the valley continued fairly open for a few miles, with the swollen stream serpentining across it, turned hither and thither by huge logjams and fortress-like rock islands.
From Down the Columbia by Lewis R. (Lewis Ransome) Freeman
There's a serpentining walk up each of the mounds, that gives you the yard and neighbourhood changing every moment.
From Our Mutual Friend by Charles Dickens
And that Lucretia, his wife! his "serpentining beauty, rounds on rounds!"
From Fragments of an Autobiography by Felix Moscheles
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