snakelike

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This multipronged approach revealed that while other reptiles have evolved many snakelike traits -- 25 different groups of lizards also lost their limbs, for instance -- only snakes experienced this level of explosive diversification.

From Science Daily • Feb. 22, 2024

Someone at the start of a promising career in journalism who is so aggressively flattering and greasily evasive, with a snap-on, snakelike, aw-shucks smile, has got to have a scheme up his sleeve.

From New York Times • Feb. 6, 2024

The byway’s 27 miles of snakelike curves follow the river, surrounded by gently sloping, tuft-covered hills that climb to stunning basalt columns.

From Seattle Times • Feb. 23, 2022

Lean and sinewy, with snakelike flexibility, Paulekas contorted without restraint on the dance floor.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 22, 2022

It climbed like a rising girdle from the west and wound snakelike about the Mountain, until before it went round out of view it reached the foot of the cone upon its eastern side.

From "The Return of the King" by J.R.R. Tolkien