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

The advance is sometimes serpentine, which is why market volatility should be considered something to monetize—or mostly ignore.

From Barron's ● Dec. 24, 2025

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

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

There’s not enough junk to stop us, just to keep us on edge as we weave a serpentine path around it all.

From "Dry" by Neal Shusterman and Jarrod Shusterman

“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

In Tunis an angry mob, forming spontaneously, serpentined through the narrow streets shouting "Down with Italy!" and "Long Live France!"

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

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

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

They were paying no regard to the direction of their walk, whose vague serpentining soon began to bear down towards Henchard.

From The Mayor of Casterbridge by Thomas Hardy

So! keep looking so—25 My serpentining beauty, rounds on rounds!

From Selections from the Poems and Plays of Robert Browning by Myra Reynolds