tendril
Example Sentences
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The tendrils of the tightly strung material connect, both physically and metaphorically, the wartime experiences documented in the photocopied pages scattered about, but they also bring to mind out-of-control cell growth and cancerous disease.
New ideas spread to the rest of the country through friendship and family, so we wanted to get a better idea of the social tendrils that reach out of the South.
From Scientific American
By the middle of the decade, Jack Thompson had filed lawsuits targeting nearly every tendril of the video game supply chain.
From The Verge
In “A Touch of Optimism 4 Every Worry,” a cloud bank made of blossoms floats in a striated blue sky, with tangled, vine-like tendrils below.
From Washington Post
“Reflecting Wave” swirls on the wall as if about to break, while the less naturalistic “Reflecting Pool” insets small mirrors into a picture whose basic diamond shape is softened by oceanic tendrils.
From Washington Post
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
