How To Use flexuous In A Sentence
- Howard's full range of terms was: cirrus (for clouds made up of ‘parallel, flexuous, or dividing fibres’); cumulus (for convex or conical heaps, building upwards from a horizontal base); and stratus, horizontal sheets of cloud.
- What a kitten-like, flexuous, tender creature she was! Life's Little Ironies
- Elsewhere it looked flexuous, here it looked vermiculated and lumpy, and her marine experiences suggested to her in a moment that two currents met and caused a turmoil at this place. A Changed Man
- Bo had a flexuous and finely-drawn figure not unreminiscent of many a vanished knight and dame, her remote progenitors, whose dust now mouldered in many churchyards. Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 102, May 7, 1892
- The = stem = is very slender, flexuous, or straight, fistulose, tough, with soft hairs at the base, usually yellowish, sometimes the same color as the cap, and viscid like the cap when moist. Studies of American Fungi. Mushrooms, Edible, Poisonous, etc.
- Miss Templeman deposited herself on the sofa in her former flexuous position, and throwing her arm above her brow -- somewhat in the pose of a well-known conception of Titian's -- talked up at Elizabeth-Jane invertedly across her forehead and arm. The Mayor of Casterbridge
- For physic carrieth men in narrow and restrained ways, subject to many accidents and impediments, imitating the ordinary flexuous courses of nature. The Advancement of Learning
- The _inflorescence_ is 1 to 3 inches long, consisting of distant sessile fascicles of four to six spikelets; the _rachis_ of the spike is flexuous; the _rachis_ of the fascicles ends in three subulate empty glumes. A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses
- This new interpretation accounts for its appearance as an extended flexuous series of cells, some of which are not seen to be in mutual contact, exhibiting nonlinear cell-size variation.
- It is a flying and lively and mysterious and magnificence world with the rich aesthetics which comes from flexuous line, life, fly, belief.