How To Use Sinuous In A Sentence

Lizards scurry in the leaf litter at my feet, monkeys feed noisily in the branches above nay head, a vine snake makes its sinuous way toward an unsuspecting small bird.
Covered with mysteriously indented curves and sinuous ridges, the sculpture invites comment and touch.
Furthermore, the thick blade and sinuous edges found on most contracting - stemmed bifaces produces a rough cut that is far less clean than slices easily produced on the same materials by unworked flakes.
The two Siamese battered around her, thudding their sinuous backs against her shoulders. AN OLDER WOMAN
By the end of the century corsets produced the sinuous body shape of the Gibson girl, with a protruding bust and derrière, and small waist.

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They look more like giant marble arms than sinuous branches.
The sinuous back-and-forth motion seemed to be only part of its movement. PREY
The mimic finally stumbled upon a vacant hole and squeezed inside; in a last ditch effort at threat display, it extended two sinuous tentacles 180 degrees apart, mimicking a snake!
Bishop Wilton is a delightful village, strung linear along a sparkling beck, containing old brick houses in a little valley terraced with sinuous greens.
The middle ethmoidal cells open into the central part of this meatus, and a sinuous passage, termed the infundibulum, extends upward and forward through the labyrinth and communicates with the anterior ethmoidal cells, and in about 50 per cent. of skulls is continued upward as the frontonasal duct into the frontal sinus. II. Osteology. 5a. 6. Ethmoid bone
In Fat of the Lamb, white fat winds around viscous sinew and muscle as if in emulation of the frame's sinuous acanthus motif.
On the left side, a sinuous twig curves from the stem base around the back of the bowl.
Eva Jiricna's Faith Zone is a cluster of arched tensile canopies stretched out over sinuous walls.
A long, slightly sinuous trunk, but readily growing a huge dome. Times, Sunday Times
These odors of the hinano and tiare were philters worthy of the beautiful Tahitian girls, with their sinuous, golden bodies so sensualized, so passionate, and so free. Mystic Isles of the South Seas.
When dealing with sinuous wounds of the foot, another favourite mode of applying dressings is by means of the syringe, and no better instrument for all cases can be found than that known as a quittor syringe (Fig. 56). Diseases of the Horse's Foot
But the live show still holds out the promise of hearing songs such as "Welcome to the Jungle," "Patience" and "Paradise City," brayed by the sinuous star who made them anthems. Welcome Back To the Jungle
He approached the girl, his movement so sinuous, so lithe; Cora wondered that no one else stared.
Clemens spent most of his time at the opening session observing a particularly ill-bred Washoe delegate, “Colonel” Jonathan Williams, eating an eighteen-pound raw turnip at his desk while simultaneously ushering through committee a sinuous new bill for a toll road that stretched conveniently from one tollhouse to another. LIGHTING OUT FOR THE TERRITORY
Flying in, I had been mesmerized by sinuous curves of sloughs and streams which wove together, then apart, meandering toward the gulf.
The 'squatty' eyed the gesticulating Manarkan and spoke, in a beautifully modulated deep bass voice, to a supple, lithe, pantherish girl with vertically-slitted yellow eyes, pointed ears, and a long and sinuous, meticulously-groomed tail. Masters Of The Vortex
The battlefield diminished behind us as we snaked down a sinuous road.
Virtually identical to the 2009 Geneva concept car—the exterior beautifully intertwines sinuous wave forms to form windows and fenders—the plug-in hybrid i8 will be fettled with a carbon-fiber-reinforced plastic body over an aluminum substructure, thus canceling out the weight penalty of heavy batteries. The Face of Green?
Kerry moves and stands with a sinuous grace.
The sinuous lines and whiplash curves that are widely recognized as the hallmarks of the style were not universally adopted.
His sinuous curves and 1970s retro chic are the best an airline can get. Times, Sunday Times
The sinuous, almost animal physicality which Lewis brings to her acting roles surfaces in a much more volcanic way when she picks up a mic.
The slinky waves, graceful and sinuous in movement, invite fishermen to reactivate their fishing nets and venture into the swirling waters.
Since then, there have been mathematical punk bands and oikish progsters, but rarely has there been an outfit such as White Denim, who combine the drive of a hardcore band with sinuous virtuosity and cavalier genre-hopping. White Denim: D – review
Within an hour's drive of Scotland's elegantly-terraced capital are snow-dusted crags and high, peaty moors, tumbling cascades, sinuous, copper-coloured rivers and silvery lochs a mile or more deep.
The 11 sinuously blended songs of ambient texture and acoustic sensitivity are striking and pure, with a confessional intensity.
The lights focus in on the stage to highlight the sinuous muscles of the three men rising and turning in an avant-garde mix of movement over break beat.
he had a graceful white body with delicate cloven feet and a long sinuous tail.
Imagine the Scottish moors with temperate rainforests and sinuous rivers, and you have Tasmania.
Beautiful terraced gardens sloped down towards the wide Conwy estuary, with the sea-going river a sinuous curve of silver between gleaming mud banks.
Consequently, fashionable women of 1910 could wear flowing, sinuous shapes in dramatic hues.
I applied compresses to the bottom of the sinuous tracks, to cleanse and dry the soft spongy flesh, and hollow leaden tents, that the sanies might always have a way out; and above them a large plaster of Diacalcitheos dissolved in wine. The Journey to Flanders. 1569
Its most characteristic theme was the use of sinuous asymmetrical lines based on plant forms; flower, leaf, and tendril motifs are common features, as are female figures with abundant flowing hair.
On the same program soloist Robert Johnson's Five Loaves of Bread and Two Fish reached out in sinuous, endless curves that spoke of a different kind of quest.
The following days, I made injections, into the depth and cavities of the ulcers, of Aegyptiacum dissolved sometimes in eau-de-vie, other times in wine, I applied compresses to the bottom of the sinuous tracks, to cleanse and dry the soft spongy flesh, and hollow leaden tents, that the sanies might always have The Harvard Classics Volume 38 Scientific Papers (Physiology, Medicine, Surgery, Geology)
Sharon's bass and breathily intoned vocals are often the crux of a song, and sparseness and restraint always the watchwords, with even guest Johnny Marr reining himself in so his guitar sinuously entwines with the bass and synth lines on Can't Put it Down Until it Ends. Pajama Club: Pajama Club – review
She is as commanding as ever - slender and supple in a parade of gorgeous costumes while her feet pound out the complicated zapateados and her fingers alternately play the castanets or weave sinuously through air.
The Titians, da Vincis, Raphaels, and Dürers that he bought were joined by works from contemporary artists that had been specially painted to suit his eccentric tastes: the zoological fantasies of Brueghel, the sinuous sculptures of Giambologna, and the animated vegetables of Arcimboldi. The Dragon’s Trail
Instead, it delivers a sinuous minerality larded with suave peachy fruit in perfectly poised understatement.
Some designs have a sinuous, undulating quality that is identifiably French.
Its restrained palette, the sinuous, loopy drawing, and the interplay of seemingly simple forms and planes present a highly cerebral visual game.
In each square, two or three precise, sinuous lines evoke either a torso, bent legs or shoulders.
The creature before her came sinuously forward up out of the ditch, folding its wings back to its scaly sides, so incredibly intent.
He ran a sinuous path of flagstones down the center of the yard, and built a pavilion at the back of the yard.
But his attention to detail, and especially to clear articulation and sinuous textures, was exemplary. Times, Sunday Times
The best long gowns are lithe and sinuous. Times, Sunday Times
The pale blue concrete countertop traces a sinuous curve around one corner to create a breakfast area near the family room.
Sinuous and scented lovelies shimmered about.
Its design studio has to style cars with the sinuous, feline grace that defines the brand, while making sure new offerings look fresh.
They are more or less angular, and while elongated transversely at first, become nearly isodiametric as the pileus becomes fully expanded, passing from an elongated form to rectangular, or sinuous in outline, the margin more or less upturned, especially in age, when they begin to loosen and "peel" from the surface of the cap. Studies of American Fungi. Mushrooms, Edible, Poisonous, etc.
A few seconds later a rap on the side caused several sinuous silhouettes to leap back into the shadows.
Sinuous connectivity is the tendency for individual lithologic units to be continuous over long and highly contorted paths; there is no means in the earlier modeling of either characterizing or synthesizing this property.
It's not just that he's 5ft 2in tall, it's also that his sinuous, muscly frame makes him look as if he is verging on petite; more like a racing jockey than a racing driver.
Some day, perhaps, the exact significance of this emblem may be explained, we are content to point out the variety and happy arrangement of the sinuous lines which surround and enframe the richly decorated pilaster that acts as its stem. A History of Art in Chaldæa & Assyria, v. 1
Beasts, vipers and monsters descend upon a mildmannered-looking man, likely a self-portrait, while a giant, sinuous snake, limned by several wavy lines of paint, hovers overhead.
It seems that certain connoisseurs were not averse to engineering breakages so that precious vessels could be mended in this way, and beyond the sinuous lines — some exquisitely fine, occasionally spidery and nervous, others unctuous, broad, plump, and fluid — the volatile elements of chance and happenstance, in other words the randomness of these sudden breakages, lends to this art its clever brinkmanship with the big twin concepts of time and impermanence. Archive 2009-07-01
The river wound its sinuous way across the plain.
His use of long sinuous lines with no cross-hatching gave his work at its best great directness and clarity.
The simple plastic weave of a café chair, a blackboard chalked with the specials du jour, the cloudy comfort of a cool pastis and the sinuous scent of coffee and fresh-baked bread.
I've said before that my metabolism wavers sinuously between stallion and walrus, and I've been getting noticeably blubbery in recent months.
It was as though we were negotiating some oversized, sinuous arroyo in Utah's Canyonlands, awash with dry waterfalls down which we had to climb, jamming hands into cracks and levering weight on small footholds in free-climbing maneuvers, as the infamous canyoneer Aron Ralston did in the minutes before he fell, became trapped by a boulder, and after 127 hours, self-amputated his arm. Richard Bangs: Climbing the Killer Prince -- Merapi Volcano of Java, Part 2
His prose is both sinuous and oracular, with a torrent of subordinate clauses cluttering up nearly every sentence; it's hard to read him without giving thanks for the arrival of Hemingway on the American literary scene.
Brown and striped cat shapes sinuously intermingled, hissing and yowling, and fell off the bed with three soft thuds. AN OLDER WOMAN
They offered me a morsel of their rococo scorpion roll, which snaked across a plate in sinuous curves.
The two restaurants and Dublin were illuminated beautifully to highlight the embroidery and sequin work on the garments displayed by the sinuous models.
The 11 sinuously blended songs of ambient texture and acoustic sensitivity are striking and pure, with a confessional intensity.
By the end of the century corsets produced the sinuous body shape of the Gibson girl, with a protruding bust and derrière, and small waist.
They have a beauty all their own, a seductive, sexy, sinuous swiftness that puts everything else in the sea to shame.
The whole ceremony may be considered as a lively representation of an ophite procession as it advanced through the sinuous paralleiths of Karnak. The God-Idea of the Ancients
Trees branch in a consistent way, leaves take their genetic form, rivers carve a sinuous route, snowflakes fall in their basic hexameter shape.
And throughout the concert, when the two mandolinists weren't playing, they counted the taal or rhythm with sinuous hand movements. In concert: U. Shrinivas at Millennium Stage
The catwalk was illuminated beautifully to highlight the embroidery and sequin work on the garments displayed by the sinuous models.
The building's exterior is nothing but curves and lines, sinuous and simple, like the body of a ballet dancer.
He drew with the sinuous curves and twining lines of Art Nouveau, and he dared to combine diamonds and precious stones with horn, ivory, agate, sardonyx, copper, brilliantly colored enamel and eventually glass. A Display of Lalique's Beauty
Evidence of methane rainfall came from Huygens's images of the surface, which showed sinuous, branching channels extending from relatively bright highlands to a tarry plain.
Clemens spent most of his time at the opening session observing a particularly ill-bred Washoe delegate, “Colonel” Jonathan Williams, eating an eighteen-pound raw turnip at his desk while simultaneously ushering through committee a sinuous new bill for a toll road that stretched conveniently from one tollhouse to another. LIGHTING OUT FOR THE TERRITORY
The two earlier ones are stocky and powerful while the later ones, slender and long-limbed, dance with supple, sinuous grace.
in the waters of the prehistoric Tethys ocean, a sinuous, 50-foot-long beast with gaping jaws and jagged teeth died and sank to the seafloor.
One of the major constructions at Alta Vista, the Labyrinth, is a sinuous walkway with pillars and turns, bordered by rubblework walls, and believed to have astronomical significance. Hats off to Sombrerete in the state of Zacatecas
The Washburn Valley is true Dales country, with stoutly-built stone barns and sinuous walls dividing up the fields of deep velvety green.
Fish lie low till dusk, when they all promenade: the big-eyed scad form sinuous, silvery zeppelins, and traffic lanes of blue tang stream home from their day at the office.
Flying in, I had been mesmerized by sinuous curves of sloughs and streams which wove together, then apart, meandering toward the gulf.
Designed by West 8, Diller Scofidio + Renfro, and Rogers Marvel Architects, the project is a hybrid of landscape and architecture based around a sinuous set of new paths, watercourses, restaurants, aquaria and even complimentary wooden bicycles. Daniel Flahiff | Inhabitat
It is a paper you cannot make head nor tail of, and at the end come five or six long folded diagrams that open out and show peculiar zigzag tracings, flashes of lightning overdone, or sinuous inexplicable things called “smoothed curves” set up on ordinates and rooting in abscissae — and things like that. The Food of the Gods and how it came to Earth
You can now choose from vertical tubes, sometimes with sinuous curves, thin wall-hugging panels or wacky shapes, many of which make a strong, sculptural statement, replacing the mundane beige ribbed slabs you dislike so much.
As she leans with sinuous insouciance against Billy's flank, her unfeigned ease fills the image with sexual heat.
Because of their sinuous edges and thick blades, these knives tended to rip and tear materials.
She displayed, under his nose, the only kind of figure he considered worth looking at -- that of a very young girl, supple and sinuous and quicksilverish; thin, eager shoulders, polished white arms that were nowhere too fat and nowhere too thin. Youth and the Bright Medusa
They were about the same size, but while Seamus had been flabby, this man had the appearance of sinuous strength.
The swirling movement of the dense repoussé and chased decoration and the sinuous spout and handle are in perfect balance.
Dictionary.com had several meanings for the word "slink" but I like this one: "to walk or move in a slow, sinuous, provocative way". Kiss My Curvy "S" or What Should I Name These?
Her sinuous grace makes even the most complicated manoeuvre look not just effortless but perfectly natural.
The ridges of the dunes are sharply defined with sinuous, snaking curves in their profiles, which are thrown into sharp relief by shadow. Times, Sunday Times
With just a few strokes of a loaded brush, he can indicate an elaborately costumed figure or the sinuous gestures of a tropical vine.
The slightly gauche figure-drawing adds to the carvings' fey allure, but their chief trait is an obsession with describing drapery and water in very low relief through swathes of sinuously convoluted line.
They are punctuated by colourful abstract sculptures from the 1970s and the occasionally successful stylised bronzes of sinuous nude girls from later in that decade.
Obviously, it brings up interesting scenarios of landscape architects, in drunken stupors at 3 in the morning, downloading the software to design their own sinuous landforms. Ripple Topography
Back in the capital, ebullient Creole evangelical hymns still reverberate in the mornings from the mountainsides and ravines that crisscross the city, and radios still pump out a non-stop diet of sinuous konpa music of the kind that first brought Michel Martelly to prominence along with the driving racine rhythms of vodou and endless political chatter. Michael Deibert: Notes from Haiti's Long Hot Summer
By that secret the mystery of the organ is legible: and a comparison of the heart to the mountain rillet is taken up to show us the unbaffled force of the little channel in seeking to swell its volume, strenuously, sinuously, ever in pursuit of self; the busiest as it is the most single-aiming of forces on our earth. The Egoist
But this city is no dusty architectural archive—Frank Gehry's sinuous Millennium Park bandshell is six years young; Renzo Piano's floaty Modern Wing for the Art Institute of Chicago opened in 2009. Chicago
Its design studio has to style cars with the sinuous, feline grace that defines the brand, while making sure new offerings look fresh.
The creature was sinuous and serpentine in appearance.
‘Good afternoon, ladies’, he smarmed, cleansing his throat abruptly, cruising towards the startled snippets of feminine vagary with an outstretched, sinuous hand and an all too courtly demeanour.
The left leg, flat and sinuous, extends forward to the tip of its elegant beribboned slipper, as if tapping time.
Her mermaids, with their serpentine jointing, displayed an uncanny sinuousness. Robert Loerzel: Chicago, "Puppeteer" City
The descent is gentler than the climb, and the road snakes downhill in a series of sinuous curves. Times, Sunday Times
As a principal with Ballet Arizona, she arches her sinuous back and undulates her arms with poetic delicacy in Bournonville's La Sylphide, and struts with sexy sultriness in Balanchine's Slaughter on Tenth Avenue.
It is gilded, sinuous (especially in the context of Lower Manhattan's perpendiculars and horizontals) and represents Civic Fame.
Phillips' video montage bombards and caresses the objects with everything from sinuous watery imagery to bouncing polka dots and laser wands that cartwheel and flip with Morse-code rapidity.
Shutters are thin timber slats set between curved metal guiding rails; sinuous, gentle, they roll back into themselves like roll-top desks.
Flying in, I had been mesmerized by sinuous curves of sloughs and streams which wove together, then apart, meandering toward the gulf.
The spinning, kinetic stars cast their light into the room and in the darkness the patterns played over my skin and Diane's in focusless images, the way city lights shine through a rain-streaked window, silently, sinuously. Spin
Paosia differs from the enigmatic and poorly defined Pterodonta by having a much less globose adult last whorl, lower spire, anterior end of outer lip projected and incurved, a more sinuous growth line, and in lacking an umbilicus.
San Francisco's Middle Eastern-leaning Jef Stott lays down a hearty beat to counter the sinuous kora strings on "Behind the Mask," while Nate Wize jazzes up "Bodhichitta Dub" nicely. Derek Beres: Global Beat Fusion: Songs of Wonder and Planetary Grooves
Some are distinctly organic, the bark still on the sinuous floor joist, a chimneystack of undressed stone.
They followed the sinuous trail deep into the mountains.
Odd, for they moved with a terrible alacrity, a sinuous grace. A Plague of Angels
I finitely them that it is an anthropomorphous paedophile patchwork of colourful unconcern, and is sinuously halophile by the antineoplastic. Rational Review
If only he could bury his fears as easily as the ancient Sauun had inurned their marvelous, enigmatic, sinuous layer of impermeable ceramic. Diuturnity's Dawn
Ribbons can be more or less straight, sinuous, twisted, or convoluted.
At Gagosian, Mr. Serra's long, sinuous, narrow passageways and towering walls of streaked-burnt-orange steel planes are evocative of natural crevices, fine oiled hardwoods such as burled walnut, and nearly every color of sunset. Exploring Spaces And Life's Continuity
His sculptural, sinuous work may well become the face of 21st-century parks and gardens. Times, Sunday Times
The ridges of the dunes are sharply defined with sinuous, snaking curves in their profiles, which are thrown into sharp relief by shadow. Times, Sunday Times
The 11 sinuously blended songs of ambient texture and acoustic sensitivity are striking and pure, with a confessional intensity.
His sultry looks and sinuous movements were his passport to Hollywood, where his first leading roles in 1921 catapulted him to fame.
The 11 sinuously blended songs of ambient texture and acoustic sensitivity are striking and pure, with a confessional intensity.
There are some poetic moments in this essay, beautiful descriptions of organs “It [the liver] laps over the pink sweep of the stomach, from whose lower border the gauzy omentum is draped, and through which veil one sees, sinuous, slow as just-fed snakes, the indolent coils of the intestine.” Personal Essay Class, Week Six « So Many Books
But his attention to detail, and especially to clear articulation and sinuous textures, was exemplary. Times, Sunday Times
The newcorner was slim, and Rogers felt that he might break him between his hands if he could only get a proper grip; but the drunken drover -- for it was he -- was as sinuous as an eel, and a moment later Joe was on the broad of his back with the 'darbies' on his wrists and a trooper kneeling on his chest, while the drover, transformed into Detective Downy, stood over them, mopping his face with his big false beard. The Gold-Stealers A Story of Waddy
So the conclusion of quantity analysis is drawn :when target at sea is sinuously moved against gun fire of medium caliber naval gun with director, the deflection of shell impact point shou...
The landscape here was more undulating, the lanes more sinuous and the wine-tastings deeply intoxicating.
Campylostoma exhibits rather rectilinear lateral longitudinal ridges whereas those of Corazzatocarcinus n. gen. are sinuous.
Smoke rose from the piece's mouth, trailing upward in a sinuous line before disappearing into thin air.
My eyes scan the pewter-grey mudbanks and mudflats and a distant shoreline etched with filigrees of sinuous creeks.
Monochrome blocks, representing single species planting, undulate in sinuous curves of primary colour reminiscent of Miro or Arp.
The fence pictured above coils into a sinuous spiral.
This is not so much their fortress as their cauldron, the sinuous curves of its redesign simply serving to retain the noise still further. Times, Sunday Times
It's not just that he's a Napoleonic 5ft 2in tall, it's also that his sinuous, muscly frame makes him look as if he is verging on petite; more like a racing jockey than a racing driver.

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