Thesaurus / zigzag
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All of my adventures include U-turns, switchbacks, zigzags, and circles.
NAVIGATING THE WORLD WITH A TERRIBLE SENSE OF DIRECTIONAWISEJULY 12, 2021OUTSIDE ONLINETo neutralize this unstable electrical field, lightning zigzags between the charged clusters, says Cassandra Smith, a volcanologist at the Alaska Volcano Observatory in Anchorage.
INVISIBLE BURSTS OF ELECTRICITY FROM VOLCANOES SIGNAL EXPLOSIVE ERUPTIONSALKA TRIPATHY-LANGJULY 1, 2021SCIENCE NEWSArchaeologists walk or push the machines over the ground like a zigzagging lawnmower.
TO FIND ANSWERS ABOUT THE 1921 RACE MASSACRE, TULSA DIGS UP ITS PAINFUL PASTHELEN THOMPSONMAY 27, 2021SCIENCE NEWSThen the balloon would tack around and slowly zigzag through the plume from the opposite direction.
A FIRST-OF-ITS-KIND GEOENGINEERING EXPERIMENT IS ABOUT TO TAKE ITS FIRST STEPEMILY LUONGFEBRUARY 19, 2021MIT TECHNOLOGY REVIEWThe eccentric, improvisational zigzags in his early career, along with the array of challenging hobbies, suggest that Irvine is constantly searching for the proper match for his considerable abilities.
AN UNEXPECTED TWIST LIGHTS UP THE SECRETS OF TURBULENCEDAVID H. FREEDMANSEPTEMBER 3, 2020QUANTA MAGAZINEIt cut its zigzag way through the marsh for many miles, and they could follow its course with the eye but a few feet at a time.
ANCESTORSGERTRUDE ATHERTONI do not know how to sympathize with any thing that is not straightforward and true, and your course is rather zigzag.
TESSA WADSWORTH'S DISCIPLINEJENNIE M. DRINKWATERThe stone walls of houses were cracked; one of the "mansions" had a zigzag crevice from top to bottom.
ANCESTORSGERTRUDE ATHERTONA steep and narrow path cuts along the former, and a really good road winds zigzag along the other to the Governor's House.
NAPOLEON'S YOUNG NEIGHBORHELEN LEAH REEDIt is Norman, ornamented with a simply executed but very pleasing zigzag: the capitals of the piers are cushioned.
BELL'S CATHEDRALS: THE CATHEDRAL CHURCH OF CARLISLEC. KING ELEYWORDS RELATED TO ZIGZAG
- ambiguous
- ancillary
- circuitous
- circular
- circumlocutory
- collateral
- complicated
- contingent
- crooked
- devious
- discursive
- duplicitous
- erratic
- eventual
- implied
- incidental
- long
- long way home
- long-drawn-out
- long-winded
- meandering
- oblique
- obscure
- out-of-the-way
- periphrastic
- rambling
- secondary
- serpentine
- sidelong
- sinister
- sinuous
- snaking
- sneaking
- sneaky
- subsidiary
- tortuous
- twisting
- underhand
- vagrant
- wandering
- winding
- zigzag
- amble
- bat around
- be all over the map
- branch off
- clamber
- climb
- cruise
- depart
- digress
- divagate
- diverge
- drift
- excurse
- extend
- fork
- gad
- gallivant
- get sidetracked
- knock about
- knock around
- meander
- perambulate
- percolate
- peregrinate
- promenade
- range
- roam
- rove
- saunter
- scramble
- snake
- sprangle
- sprawl
- spread
- spread-eagle
- straddle
- straggle
- stray
- stroll
- trail
- traipse
- turn
- twist
- walk
- wind
- zigzag
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