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Meanings of sinuous in anglès

Curved or curving in and out.

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Usage of sinuous in anglès
1
The pores are firm when fully grown; they are sinuous and labyrinthine.
Among the Mushrooms: A Guide For Beginners
2
The road became more sinuous and the hills more grand and imposing.
See America First
3
The purple colors are deeper water and nicely show the sinuous canyon.
Wired
4
His right arm slipped about the sinuous, fur-robed body of the girl.
Darkness and Dawn
5
Her figure in the long chair fell into sinuous, graceful, relaxed lines.
The Leopard Woman
6
Cells rhomboidal, with a sinuous depression on the outer and posterior aspect.
Narrative of the Voyage of H.M.S. Rattlesnake, Commanded By the ...
7
At every turn of the sinuous road fresh splendors broke upon them.
The Queen of Sheba, and My Cousin the Colonel
8
All are notable for their sinuous line and their exquisitely balanced composition.
The new yorker
9
The wind was constantly changing them, sculpting them into sinuous, dunelike shapes.
The Shining
10
The sinuous road with two wagon-ruts revealed picturesque views at every turn.
The Created Legend
11
Beneath, the Tugela curled along like a brown and very sinuous serpent.
London to Ladysmith via Pretoria
12
This time, the sinuous creature was held by too firm a grasp.
Eminent Victorians
13
Subsequent erosion wore down the the surrounding rock leaving the sinuous ridge.
Wired
14
His sinuous form swayed instinctively to every changing motion of his mount.
A Texas Ranger
15
That was not the sinuous luscious creature who had come to me.
Vittorio, the vampire
16
With a sinuous movement she turned on her elbow to face him.
The Leopard Woman
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