serpentine

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

Below in the little valley the still gray serpentine of a river.

From "The Road" by Cormac McCarthy

“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

Good God!' said my aunt, with great indignation, 'I am not going to be serpentined and corkscrewed out of my senses!'

From David Copperfield by Charles Dickens

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

Its waters, in creeping down these miles of meadowland, frequently divided, serpentining in purposeless curves, looping themselves around little islands that had no name, returning and re-embodying themselves as a broad main stream further on.

From Tess of the d'Urbervilles by Thomas Hardy

Then the rapture overflows the spectator's brain, and the Master, arrayed in a serpentining garment, appears in the path before him.

From A Handbook to the Works of Browning (6th ed.) by Mrs. Sutherland Orr

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

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

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