How To Use Meander In A Sentence

As the round draws to a close, so the course meanders its way down from the hillside and back to sea level.
The first is the back-and-forth meandering pattern known as boustrophedon.
The pair were quiet at first as they meandered through the people and streets.
At the font he shook off the assistance of the sidesman and meandered down the aisle. THE MAIN CAGES
When the announcement was given for the ceremony to begin, everybody kind of meandered over to the field and stood around in a circle. Hullabaloo

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Driving full throttle on his wheel rims, he trundled back to Augusta at 30 mph and meandered through downtown, trailed by a posse of 14 cruisers.
This point-of-view tale meanders and stumbles in a blurry daze with characters coming and going.
The track of the jet stream winds can also meander around in spring, switching between winter and summer conditions at astonishing speed. Times, Sunday Times
This changeable weather across the country was down to the meandering track of the jet stream. Times, Sunday Times
Minus the film interaction, however, the opus suffered from overwrought verbiage and meandering vignettes.
The road meanders high above the waters of lakes and rivers, embraced by the meringue summits of the mountains.
Get up early and you can watch frenetic flower auctions or meander through the flower gallery while enjoying the designer floral arrangements. The Sun
The centerpiece of Cumbler's story is the meandering Connecticut River, stretching from the border with Canada to the Atlantic Ocean.
The river channel meanders through wide tidal freshwater marshes of cattail and sedges (Carex spp. and Scirpus spp.), with stands of saltmarsh cordgrass along the upper banks.
In the tradition of isolated rural buildings, the house is conceived as a singular gesture responding to the strength of the site: a grassy terrace overlooking a meandering river facing north up a spectacular valley, next to an old eucalypt. Bluff Farm House by Richard Cole Architecture
Similarly, with Alex having failed to convince and David Luiz prone to meander upfield, the management might seek to add more steel to the ranks at centre-half in January – or at least players who are more familiar to the demands now being placed on them. Chelsea on message but André Villas-Boas needs to work on method
For example, the title track's obscured by excessive meandering, never giving any indication of the song's center, or the composition's significance.
About half the time, the songs are laid-back - mellow even - and meander casually along with long, rich, drawn-out horn solos and harmonies.
To one side the River Seven meandered, thick with willow, purple with balsam and white with convolvulus.
The problem most of the reviews expose is Erikson's verbosity and a very slow and meandering buildup with many subplots leading nowhere, but the reader's patience is ultimatelly paid of by another bombastic ending (yup, a convergence). Archive 2008-07-01
But he quickly went back into his shell, meandering around aimlessly in midfield. The Sun
Though they were now only 65 air miles from their destination, the great salt lake lay more than 200 miles down the meandering river, through bands of belligerent nomads, wild rapids and a sun that threatened to "carbonize those who should be unprotected from its fierceness. Old Salt, Dead Sea
The aptly titled venue was surrounded by a huge gorge, rolling bluffs and a meandering river.
The minerals are deposited in lakes, deltas and meander further downstream, where they build up and form sedimentary rocks such as calcite, selenite, pyrite and dolomite.
The Inn River meanders through the countryside like an unbroken silver thread.
Stray outside - even to cut a corner between meanders - and you'll shudder onto a mudflat like those raiding warships. Times, Sunday Times
He has also helped guide him through a meandering journey that has included several demotions to and call-ups from the minors and a lonely rehabilitation stint in Port St. Lucie, Fla. Life of a Baseball Interpreter
South our meander county also countryside is advance northwest a typical impoverished villages and towns.
Grids lay upon the landscape reducing meandering rivers and their jagged embankments to scenic enjoyments or inconveniences to overcome.
There will be no more comfortable meandering with arms folded in the slips. Times, Sunday Times
The rest of the album meanders about in cliché depressive lyrics that fails to convey any real emotion.
As we meandered through the mountains north of San Jose, we passed through endless coffee plantations, the rows of dark plants heavy with berries.
The Flaming Lips are probably the only band who could get away with a meandering double album of prog rock jams. The Sun
The environment is interpreted as a dominantly subaqueous delta top, similar to the modern Mississippi but with meandering distributary channels.
These delightful spots of ground become more numerous and extensive as the stream progresses on its rapid and irriguous way, until, where it finally emerges from the gorge of the mountain, it meanders through a rich plain, containing many acres, and at last loses itself in French Broad River. Eoneguski, or, the Cherokee Chief: A Tale of Past Wars. Vol. I.
He conjured up a vision of this strange forgotten kink in the world's littoral, of the long meandering channels that spread and divaricate and spend their burden of mud and silt within the thunderbelt of Atlantic surf, of the dense tangled vegetation that creeps into the shimmering water with root and sucker. Tono Bungay
It is characterized by a permanent stream meandering through steep sandstone bluffs.
Indeed, after years of declawing, today's BBC is so P45-paranoid of offending anyone that we should all feel verily grateful for a meandering plot in The Archers about Lynda's llamas. Grace Dent's TV OD: Luther and Falling Skies
Fortunately, the meandering is often redeemed by Sittenfeld’s ability to evoke surprising details and fresh perspectives. Finds and flops
More than is good for it, the film 's meandering tale has the feel of something concocted on the spur of the moment. Times, Sunday Times
The Tungabhadra river meanders gently through, and at night the boulder-strewn landscape has an almost magical quality.
Using the - coordinate POM model core position and flux on Kuroshio frontal meander are studied.
It just meanders along on nothing more than a song and a flourish of some pretty costumes.
When uncle Billy, in one of his characteristic empty-headed gestures, accidentally lost his score, the one that would redeem him from undeserved obscurity, something broke in him and he ran screaming out into the streets, meandering aimlessly, meaningless sounds burbling from his lips until he wound up here, on the bridge, teetering over the edge on the verge of a long, life-crushing fall into the dark waters below. The envelopes
Mine were caught in oxbow lakes and meander scars in southwest Alabama. Has anyone ever caught a bowfin or a snakehead? if so where and how big?
From the car park we walk down to the South West Coast Path, past the white daymark tower, used for navigators at sea, then meander to the village of Kingswear on the banks of the river Dart, passing the Forward Point gun emplacements used in the second world war, and now the location of a revitalised lookout station of the Travel news, travel guides and reviews | guardian.co.uk
You can see bulging veins in foreheads as determined gift-hunters try to fight through the meandering, aimless shoppers.
It was still possible to meander down country lanes, see horses pull ploughs and smell woodsmoke from the chimneys of thatched cottages in the evenings.
December, the outlook is for the unusual weather to continue, and a weak and meandering jet stream with high pressure to remain the dominant force. Times, Sunday Times
Next door at the Discovery Center - a hands-on children's science and discovery museum - visitors can meander through the 5 1/2-acre landscape, which includes a cactus garden set aglow by dozens of luminarias.
Occasionally songs do meander and merge into one another, lost in the acoustic haze.
But as you meander around this selection, a very clear aesthetic begins to emerge. Times, Sunday Times
As I did so, a figure walking along the road that curved gently with the land toward our farm and meandered past our house, caught my eye.
After 20 years in the Senate, he has developed a meandering, circumlocutory speaking style.
As the demonstrations had meandered through the week and across the campus, their purpose seemed to change.
We crossed a small iron bridge over a meandering stream.
A stream meandered towards the sea.
Mr. LANSING: He is normally a very good melodist and normally really writes a good tune, but that song is meandering. Holiday Songs You Love... and Loathe
While experientialism stresses the importance of a personal acquaintance with what we categorize as the divine, evidentialism provides an anchor to prevent such hypothesizing from meandering off into exceedingly esoteric or individualized speculation by providing a basis for belief any interested party is free to investigate at their own leisure. Redblueamerica.com blogs
It is incredibly funny, and while it does occasionally meander with the laboriousness of a test match, the heart of this expansive novel isn't just about cricket. Chinaman: The Legend of Pradeep Mathew by Shehan Karunatilaka – review
I had my base camp here" — a red square — "and I was tracking this humpback lacertilian through here" — dotted yellow meanders. Perseus Spur
The stream meanders slowly down to the sea.
There will be no more comfortable meandering with arms folded in the slips. Times, Sunday Times
Now the jetty of the Dive Centre within the complex marks the limit of Egyptian territory, and woe betide anyone who thinks they might meander northwards equipped with aqualung and fins.
This changeable weather across the country was down to the meandering track of the jet stream. Times, Sunday Times
Well, it was * really* amateurish of Steele to intoxicatedly meandering into this buzzsaw. Steele Apologizes To Limbaugh, Praises His Leadership
They are interlaced, weaving together physically to make a place where neighborhoods abut another country, where a single street can pass between two cities as it meanders from building to building (a phenomenon called "crosshatching"). Reading the Hugo Nominees: The City & The City
Maybe one or both of them is a cyborg recounting the meandering life of some long-dead syphilitic galley slave. Matthew Yglesias » Predictions Are Hard, Especially About the Future
But during my long, meandering walks through London, I marveled at the architecture, parks, and people.
Bear meandered over, turned around, and plopped her heavy tush onto my toe. LEGAL TENDER
From its subterranean source, the Wekiva meanders slow and clear past waving sawgrasses and under a moss-draped canopy of oak and laurel and longleaf pine.
For example, a swift river current will undercut the outer bank of a meander. Geography Basic Facts
Slowly the landscape changed as the two elementals followed the meandering river.
It is easy to lose more than a few centuries meandering around this warren. Times, Sunday Times
I meander through the crowd, stepping over spilt noodles as I go. Where to eat in San Francisco from $2
The book is so full of events, meanderings, digressions, legends, conversations, and adventures, that a patient reader will never find his interest exhausted.
The film is meandering and self-indulgent in places, although the music, images and commentary occasionally combine to create moments of genuine beauty.
The last phase of the project converted the meandering Kissimmee River, the main watershed artery to Lake Okeechobee, into a formless drainage canal.
In essence, the stream follows a lower, more confined route, whilst a series of meandering high-level oxbows provide convenient bypasses.
Not much cop considering that the game requires a hefty one hundred of the little blighters to be meandering about at once!
Holly the labrador meanders around, taking her habitual place on one of the sofas. Times, Sunday Times
We had meandered off on a circuitous journey.
The environment is interpreted as a dominantly subaqueous delta top, similar to the modern Mississippi but with meandering distributary channels.
The quarry's paleogeography was generally thought to have been in a lacustrine environment with associated meandering streams.
You can spend your day meandering through the maze-like cobbled paths that are lined with picturesque Venetian-style houses painted in rainbow pastels.
See meander and river 's course. Geography Basic Facts
Arriving fatigued but frolicsome in Vilnius 40 hours after leaving the UK, my initial impressions made it worth it as I meandered through what claims to be the largest ‘Old Town’ in Europe on my way to my holiday abode.
Their music melds together a scuzzy, squally blend of rebellious gospel/folk that at times possesses the radiant buoyancy of Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeroes, and in quieter moments the seeping warmth of M Ward or intelligent, lovely meanderings of Elvis Perkins. Heather Browne: Drew Grow Brings Rock and Roll Salvation
The humans pursued a meandering course through the forest.
We spent the afternoon meandering around the streets of the old town.
In places the road will meander and curve to draw attention to the landscape.
He indicated a colossal towering figure, easily thirteen foot high, meandering towards us along the wide roads.
At times, though, the album meanders pointlessly and becomes slow and uninspired.
But the most sublime and beautiful picture was to come, of a wooded valley funnelling down to a strip of green grass flood-plain and on this the River Rye meandering to the abbey.
The Namesake is a meandering narrative following Gogol, the American son of Bengali Indians who immigrated to Massachusetts during the 60s.
We meandered along winding paths, passed an enchanting puppet show and played at being proper tourists by taking a ride on a horse-drawn carriage.
I write short, sharpish comments which are always linked to the original material and also provide odd alleyways for the interested to meander off into.
The latest meander in this tortuous saga was the concern raised that when the road is finally in place that people would have to pay a toll to use it.
Descending rows of dots and extended tubular shapes meander across pale blue and green backgrounds.
She meandered through an interminable speech ranging through topics from sick children and warfare to the superficiality of film.
Barring a few participants, who used four-wheelers, the rest meandered through the congested roads and lanes of the city in two-wheelers.
Other tracks distinctly lack progression; a drum loop plods along with murky synth bass lines only to cut off suddenly, or meander without significant development or resolution.
Even more commonly the function is a discursive and indecisive meander through various fields of learning for its own sake.
You can meander along the serpentine paths that lead into the forests and soak in some wilderness.
A spotted eagle ray winged its way sternwards as we meandered in the direction of the bow, just above the port rail.
The book is a tedious affair that meanders along the journey of its plot before marooning us in an improbably happy ending.
Flying in, I had been mesmerized by sinuous curves of sloughs and streams which wove together, then apart, meandering toward the gulf.
The instrumentation is acoustic guitar plus woodwinds and strings - meandering arrangements, oblique lyrics, and his vocal style is pretty full on, so right up my alley.
The base of the arch is a piece of hand-dyed fabric, with a large number of skeleton leaves attached with free motion quilting (mostly a meander with a few leaves and flowers thrown in). Blue flowery arch
Meandering paths lead among dirt hills into odd little vales and over small bridges.
Some specialize in trading witty one-offs; others prefer thoughtful, meandering conversations.
Generally unassertive in a meandering current affairs debate and seemingly exasperated at having to read the Sunday papers ‘so fast’, at times he seemed overwhelmed.
The road meandered down to the pond, lined by birches on either side, to the manor house, which stood to the left of and slightly behind the house as one approached it.
It's a quietly elegant film, with a meandering pace to reflect the setting.
And the program includes almost all the states bordering the river, from its start as a meandering creek in northern Minnesota to its end at the Gulf of Mexico - 2,500 miles later.
The minerals are deposited in lakes, deltas and meander further downstream, where they build up and form sedimentary rocks such as calcite, selenite, pyrite and dolomite.
Crossing these landscapes are the meandering valleys of the rivers Avon, Stour, and Frome that link the south coast with the interior heartland of southern England.
Shallow streams and intermittent streams without well defined channel or banks are not meandered, even when more than 3 chains wide.
I was able to follow your meanderings via the medium of the interwebs whilst drinking along with several new Aussie craft brews from the local bottle-o.
It meanders where it should inspire and it drifts where it should progress.
On every page of the Talmud, Lichtenstein tells us, ‘one feels the freshness of virgin birth, the angular edge of rough terrain plowed and yet unplowed, the beck of meandering paths charted and uncharted.’
He meanders through the crowd, looking for anyone to sate his primal desires.
The meandering blue outlines of the river Yamuna, painted along the eastern margin of the map, makes the city picturesque.
Stray outside - even to cut a corner between meanders - and you'll shudder onto a mudflat like those raiding warships. Times, Sunday Times
Bharat's character remains that of a confused young man, whose mental meanderings border on the morose.
The plot itself is far from coherent and often meanders.
It's highly uncommercial to have the story meander like this without narrative momentum.
Sam's backyard was small in relative size to the field west of her house, the forest east of her house, and the river meandering through the back of the property.
Abandonment of a former course through avulsion and meander-loop cut-off produces many lakes.
But the play belongs to its two male leads and when they are on stage you forgive Gray's elegant meanderings.
Tourists and locals alike meandered along the main street, which was lined with small boutiques, shops, restaurants, and a couple of bars.
This overly long melodrama from the Philipines suffers technical flaws like poor dubbing, patchy performances and a meandering narrative.
The moral of all this meandering is this: computers and connectivity have gotten to be important, as you say, in most professions. Connection Overload
A serpentine flow meanders through formations of smooth pahoehoe lava and rough aa lava, the same forms common in basalt lavas.
Alexander does it on foot, following meandering game trails and tracking the animals.
We meandered through the men hawking Rolexes and Yankees knit caps, our coats and scarves wrapped tight to combat the brisk wind coming off the water.
But Eichner's slices of the built universe are all slightly off-square, and some (the wood grains) have patterns that are psychedelic meanderings.
Red mullet were grouped in the sand, and European parrotfish meandered through the seagrass.
Our itinerary followed a route south along the full meandering length of Vietnam. Times, Sunday Times
The tops of the downs in Southern England still show the scars where primitive men fought their wars or grew their scanty crops; and in the lowland plains an unusual abundance of trees will show you where once a dense forest grew, or you may infer an impassable bog from a muddy field alongside some meandering brook. English Landscape and Personality
His film begins to meander, but that's actually okay. Times, Sunday Times
Valleys aggraded with fine waste form well-nigh level plains over which streams wind from side to side of a direct course in symmetric bends known as meanders, from the name of a winding river of Asia Minor. The Elements of Geology
If I was the architect of this town, or any town, I would have built everything first but the sidewalks and let the people walk—let them express their human sensibilities of awareness and direction and tendency—and once a few months had passed, once their natural meanderings/cuts and joyful lollygags/struts and stretches and ways of life had worn gentle paths in the grass, I would have then paved over the paths, to create walkways where the people already wanted to walk. On Writing about Velveeta
After you graduated from the University of Wisconsin in 1974, you told me you "meandered" throughout your twenties. The Somerville News Blog
Wim created a similar vibe as a speaker, meandering through anecdotes, sharing philosophies, listening to and acknowledging other people in the room.
I meandered until I ended up on the road to the Castle on the Hill.
There are magical moments but interspersed with meandering nonsense. The Sun
As such, his writings express the digressions, meanderings, meditations, ruminations and speculations that characterise a singular, idiosyncratic mind at work.
If you can sit back, enjoy the scenery, the touching humour, the deft performances and the clever send-ups of American monoculture, this is one brilliant, meandering ride.
Its meander begins at the railway siding and extends down the bleak R545 road to Bethal, passing between open-cast coal pits and dried-up mealie fields.
To have allowed my conversation with this vision to meander into the obscurities of the Hohenzollern candidature! ANTI-ICE
Visitors and locals alike meander along the sidewalks of the Seine River.
For those who do not want to follow the main road a twisting path follows the meander of the river and meets the road to Gisburn at Higherford Bridge.
Much of their previous work was either bouncy, drum filled, squawky pop-mania, or simple protracted acoustic meanderings.
TORONTO: JOSE BAUTISTA, OF Until this season, he was probably not even the best-known Jose Bautista in major league history; a pitcher by that name meandered through five teams from 1988 to 1997. NYT > Home Page
Driving full throttle on his wheel rims, he trundled back to Augusta at 30 mph and meandered through downtown, trailed by a posse of 14 cruisers.
While her voice is still as silky as ever, it meanders without purpose, never grabbing and twirling the way that it has previously.
As the Gypsey Race meanders through the estate it encourages and supports much wildlife and some quite rare birds.
Though it did mean that I did a couple of placemats - I made up 8 or so of these from scrap pairs which I've been using as enders and leaders - I thought I'd practice some of the 72 ways not to stipple or meander from the new Dijanne Cevaal book I got - the placemat on left is actually from the other day and has a leaf type meander, the one on the right has a "paisley" design - wavy lines, with straight lines and dots down the middle. Placemats & stuff
It's a predominantly flat landscape veined by creeks and rivers that meander haphazardly across vast flood plains.
That is a very different and real equality compared to the one evidently murkly espoused within the stream of consciousness racial - but non-racial - meanderings emanating from the always thoughtful Mr Phillips. Expat Yank
On every page of the Talmud, Lichtenstein tells us, ‘one feels the freshness of virgin birth, the angular edge of rough terrain plowed and yet unplowed, the beck of meandering paths charted and uncharted.’
This changeable weather across the country was down to the meandering track of the jet stream. Times, Sunday Times
The river meandered gently along the valley floor.
But as you meander around this selection, a very clear aesthetic begins to emerge. Times, Sunday Times
An assessment of great music should allow for a wider variety of moods and expressions - lament, meander, laughter, rage, gallows humor, resignation, and much more.
My family and I awoke, greeted by a spectacular show of autumn colors while our Capitol Limited Amtrak train coasted alongside a meandering river somewhere outside Martinsburg, West Virginia. Archive for » 2008 » October : Sustainablog
So it would appear that from now on I am going to have to be more tactful and diplomatic in my meanderings.
But this was the easy bit, cheesy dreams after a gentle yet satisfying meander down the piste. Times, Sunday Times
A tiny rill meandered beneath a stone slab and as I crossed this a lurking moorhen was startled into headlong escape downstream, soon hidden beneath a golden tangle of overhanging gorse. Country diary: North Derbyshire
But curved or rounded lines add a meandering, expansive quality to even the smallest garden.
Ax built this recital around the theme of fantasy, beginning with Chopin's Polonaise-Fantaisie in A flat, Op 61, in which the polonaise is a firmly focused introduction to the meandering that follows. Culture | guardian.co.uk
As the Gypsey Race meanders through the estate it encourages and supports much wildlife and some quite rare birds.
Emerging from their apparently aimless meanderings came an essential truthfulness, a revelation of how things are.
Cyclists and joggers power through flocks of meandering tourists. Christianity Today
I had just taken Claire home at around 11:00 a.m and was once again cruising around in my car, thoughts meandering around my head.
Or maybe, because the meandering river had undercut the bank below their old ponderosa, Duke and Doreen sensed that the tree was no longer safe.
Just then, he spotted them meandering down the road.
The Don's barely understood emotional meandering is the counterpoise and counterpoint to Kitri's rational love for Basilo.
We crossed a small iron bridge over a meandering stream.
A couple of tracks meander aimlessly so that by the end of the album I'm left with the feeling that the band didn't quite know which direction to take.
King also journeyed by camel and Land Rover through the Sahara, retracing the stumbling meanderings of the mariners, and verifying historical and geographical details.
She stopped as she came to a small stream meandering through the dense undergrowth.
A stream meandered towards the sea.
This site is best appreciated if you have at least a few hours to meander around, laze about and take in the views.
After some scenes of topless women and some meanderings by the annoying characters, the mayhem starts.
The instrumentation is acoustic guitar plus woodwinds and strings - meandering arrangements, oblique lyrics, and his vocal style is pretty full on, so right up my alley.
They have been berated for being bland, boring, meandering and, most mystifying of all, not playing trance or whatever this week's essential dancefloor mutation is.
My keen eyes found a small kid meandering around the area aimlessly.
And she closed the door somewhat forcefully to leave Charles in his moody meanderings.
In all, a meandering film that could easily have been made more rigorous. Times, Sunday Times
It is more often characterized by meandering incremental steps designed to make problems less bad rather than "solve" them. The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com
She meandered the streets aimlessly, little sandals patting against the cobblestones - following half a thought and half a memory.
She hadn't notice the pair of dark eyes gazing at her as she meandered up the aisle occasionally picking up a book and reading the blurb.
And meandering from the Greek river which winds all over the place. The Volokh Conspiracy » Rivers and Words:
On offer are two formats: a limited edition double CD comprising all 120 meandering minutes, and a single CD which omits most of the second half of the set.
There were tall trees, wide-open planes, meandering streams, babbling brooks, rolling hills, and smart, intelligent people.
Built on seven hills and intersected by the meandering River Vltava, Prague offers a stunning array of architecture.
Apparently believing this was a real whopper of an idea, he wrote 10 meandering sequences and strung them together into a film.

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