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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

On the field, "he glides with the easy sinuosity of an antelope at full speed", wrote leading sportswriter EHD Sewell.

From The Guardian ● Mar. 24, 2010

He saw how they set their little feet, how they carried their chins, with what grace ands sinuosity they swung their bodies.

From Sister Carrie by Theodore Dreiser

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

They rule at once the waves of the mountain outline, and the sinuosities of the minutest lichen that stains its shattered stones.

From The Stones of Venice, Volume II (of 3), by John Ruskin

His forehead, large and open, like that of Diderot, indicated a vast and capacious mind; but his forehead having fewer sinuosities, less roundness than Diderot's, announced less warmth, less energy, and less fecundity of ideas.

From Ancient and Modern Celebrated Freethinkers Reprinted From an English Work, Entitled "Half-Hours With The Freethinkers." by Charles Bradlaugh


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