tendril

Example Sentences

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The teapot piece has pea tendril decor, which alludes to my favorite spring garden vegetable.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 13, 2026

A few painstaking moments later and he has freed his bounty—a small caterpillar perhaps an inch long, caked in earth with a reddish tendril of fungus sprouting from its head.

From National Geographic • Jan. 4, 2024

A twisty tendril of vapor in white-to-red ombre could be seen snaking behind a bright white light in parts of South Korea’s sky Friday evening.

From Washington Times • Dec. 30, 2022

On a fall day at Duwamish Head Greenbelt, a strip of forest sandwiched between Harbor Avenue Southwest and Southwest Admiral Way in West Seattle, 68-year-old volunteer Doug Adams stumbles over a tendril.

From Seattle Times • Nov. 2, 2022

A tendril of something began to rise up in her stomach.

From "Breadcrumbs" by Anne Ursu