serpentine

I step off the restaurant’s orderly little terrace and make a slow serpentine path past makeshift dinner parties.

From Salon ● Aug. 11, 2026

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

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

From bag-check to security to the serpentine concourses filled with high-end shops, private airline clubs, restaurants, spas and more, making your way through a supersize airport terminal is like a journey in itself.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 31, 2025

Seen from a distance, clustered densely around the white plastic box containing the long serpentine lines of army ants, turning to each other and murmuring repetitively, they seem an absolute marvel.

From "The Lives of a Cell" by Lewis Thomas

“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

She serpentined out of the room and crossed the Rubicon into the editorial offices.

From A Collection of Stories, Reviews and Essays by Willa Sibert Cather

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

We curved the hill and entered a forest of spruce, the path serpentining between the tree-boles, the wheels running silent on immemorial mould.

From From Sea to Sea Letters of Travel by Rudyard Kipling

So! keep looking so—   My serpentining beauty, rounds on rounds!

From Robert Browning: How to Know Him by William Lyon Phelps

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

So! keep looking so My serpentining beauty, rounds on rounds!

From The Home Book of Verse — Volume 2 by Burton Egbert Stevenson