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Beef and venison are plentiful, but the beef is of rather a sinuous texture.
PETALS PLUCKED FROM SUNNY CLIMESSYLVIA SUNSHINE
The sinuous plates forming the main portion of the compound radii are rather thinner and closer together than in C. balnaris.
A MONOGRAPH ON THE SUB-CLASS CIRRIPEDIA (VOLUME 2 OF 2)CHARLES DARWIN
He gathers it up, as if to force it into the sinuous folds of the figure.
RODIN: THE MAN AND HIS ARTJUDITH CLADEL
These sinuous bounds were grotesque enough in appearance, 293 but singularly effective.
KINGS IN EXILESIR CHARLES GEORGE DOUGLAS ROBERTS
Several of the first explorers crawled through the sinuous apertures when all was quiet.
WONDERS OF THE YELLOWSTONEJAMES RICHARDSON
All was still, save that the bell-rope near the confessional still swung between roof and floor with a sinuous sweep.
ABBE MOURET'S TRANSGRESSIONEMILE ZOLA
A lithe, sinuous shadow close ahead was wavering, and large, placid brown eyes were staring at him.
UNDER ARCTIC ICEH.G. WINTER
Persephon was tall, straight as an arrow, lithe and sinuous as a snake.
UNDER THE WITCHES' MOONNATHAN GALLIZIER
He moved silently away, going with that padded, sinuous motion, so distinctly Chinese.
THE SCARECROW AND OTHER STORIESG. RANGER WORMSER
Her dance had certainly been wonderful, sinuous, gliding, suggestive—a perfectly conceived scheme of evil.
ROSA MUNDI AND OTHER STORIESETHEL M. DELL
WORDS RELATED TO SINUOUS
- Daedalean
- Gordian
- abstruse
- bewildering
- byzantine
- circuitous
- complicated
- confused
- convoluted
- crabbed
- cryptic
- discursive
- disordered
- disturbing
- enigmatic
- entangled
- excursive
- hidden
- impenetrable
- inscrutable
- interwoven
- intricate
- involved
- jumbled
- knotted
- knotty
- labyrinthine
- mazy
- meandering
- mingled
- mixed
- muddled
- obscure
- paradoxical
- perplexing
- puzzling
- rambling
- recondite
- round-about
- sinuous
- snarled
- sophisticated
- tangled
- tortuous
- undecipherable
- unfathomable
- winding
- agee
- anfractuous
- angular
- asymmetric
- awry
- bowed
- catawampus
- circuitous
- cockeyed
- contorted
- crippled
- curved
- curving
- deformed
- deviating
- devious
- disfigured
- distorted
- errant
- gnarled
- hooked
- incurving
- indirect
- irregular
- kinky
- knurly
- lopsided
- meandering
- misshapen
- not straight
- oblique
- out of shape
- rambling
- roundabout
- screwy
- serpentine
- sinuous
- skewed
- slanted
- snaky
- spiral
- tilted
- topsy-turvy
- tortile
- tortuous
- twisted
- twisting
- uneven
- warped
- winding
- zigzag
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