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sinuosity

[sin-yoo-os-i-tee] / ˌsɪn juˈɒs ɪ ti /




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The industrious Saab couture atelier had got to work to weave the signature crystals, sequins and pearls together to - as the program notes put it - depict “the sinuosity of organic forms.”

From Washington Times Jul. 4, 2018

The industrious Saab couture atelier had got to work to weave the signature crystals, sequins and pearls together to — as the program notes put it — depict “the sinuosity of organic forms.”

From Seattle Times Jul. 4, 2018

Over time, the sinuosity of the stream becomes increasingly exaggerated, and the channel migrates around within its flood plain, forming a meandering pattern.

From Textbooks Jan. 1, 2015

Marrying the sinuosity of contemporary dance to a fractured postmodernism, the McGregor style was distinguished by its rattlesnake speed, flickering detail, and extreme and often distorted physical articulation.

From The Guardian Jan. 2, 2011

Following the sinuosity of the shore, our general direction was south, and after we had thus proceeded two miles, we found the width of the river suddenly contract from three miles to one.

From Discoveries in Australia, Volume 1. With an Account of the Coasts and Rivers Explored and Surveyed During The Voyage of H.M.S. Beagle, in the Years 1837-38-39-40-41-42-43. By Command of the Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty. Also a Narrative Of Captain Owen Stanley's Visits to the Islands in the Arafura Sea. by Stokes, John Lort

To plain readers, who find Poet Robinson's verbal sinuosities occasionally obscure, they may appear largely unintelligible.

From Time Magazine Archive

Sentences in longhand seemed to take on some of the sinuosities of script.

From Time Magazine Archive

Even those who fail to follow all the sinuosities of his reasoning must sense that, whatever else he has done or left undone, Niebuhr has restored to Protestantism a Christian virility.

From Time Magazine Archive

For thirty-six hours the Forward followed the sinuosities of the coast of Boothia, without reaching Prince of Wales Land.

From The Voyages and Adventures of Captain Hatteras by Riou, Edouard

The boats were immediately launched, and having pulled a short distance from the land, we set the sails, our course being directed to the outer point in view, to avoid the sinuosities of the coast.

From Narrative of a Second Expedition to the Shores of the Polar Sea by Franklin, John




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