How To Use Zig-zag In A Sentence
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Zig-zag roads and serpentine rivers criss-crossing different valleys of this far-flung district, make the landscape even more fascinating.
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Its zig-zag course and the steep cliffs on either side make a two-hour raft trip down the river an adventurous experience.
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Get those legs working on the 'steepish zig-zag' climb, which is part of the four-mile walk.
Times, Sunday Times
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A faint track through the crowberry scrub led to a rightwards sloping ramp of black slabs which seemed to give way to a series of zig-zags amongst some large blocks.
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Early Sunday morning the guests poured down the zig-zag in a living cataract on the one side, and flocked from the valleys on the other – from Hoti, from Kastrati and Boga, all in their best – men first, their women following.
High Albania
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From the end of it a small wand planted here and there showed where the path zig-zagged from tuft to tuft of rushes among those green-scummed pits and foul quagmires which barred the way to the stranger.
The Seriously Deranged Writer and the Model Cars
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Thread the pieces of chicken in a zig-zag fashion on to the metal or bamboo skewers and set to one side.
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From the bealach we climbed up through some trees to a rocky knoll from where another path eventually zig-zagged its way to the grassy summit.
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A faint track through the crowberry scrub led to a rightwards sloping ramp of black slabs which seemed to give way to a series of zig-zags amongst some large blocks.
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A quarter of a mile further on, at the eastern limb of the bay, the path descended steeply, zig-zagging across the cliff face to a stretch of beach to the east of Holland Point.
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Which means I'm on a mission: elbowing my way past strangers, zig-zagging between cars, even occasionally breaking into a uncharacteristically moderately paced stroll.
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Early ammonoids or goniatites may have simple zig-zag sutures, but they become increasingly complex from the Triassic to the Cretaceous.
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The President was back in the state where he spent that fateful morning, before being flown off on a zig-zag cross-country journey which finally took him back to Washington.
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The hard red dirt zig-zags in rivets and bumps under my thin shoes, and my legs brace themselves so as not to just glisse on down the hill.
Flowers and Bees
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I can't wait to tell Seabass as he grows older about Snipergate, my personal favorite mini-drama of the election year, when Hillary Clinton "misremembered" being shot at by snipers and having to run "zig-zag" after getting off a plane in Bosnia.
The Next Next President
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My nine-year-old, Sam, is somewhere in that poncho, paddling a zig-zagging course between the vine-cloaked banks of the quiet waterway.
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Regarding the execrable pact between Nazi Germany and Stalinist Russia, which shocked many former communist sympathizers into lives of anticommunism, Mr. Hobsbawm dismisses the "zig-zags and turns of Comintern and Soviet policy," specifically the "about-turn of 1939-41," which "need not detain us here.
How a True Believer Keeps the Faith
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In the 10-year period in question, 33 new fish species have been found in the waters around the island, including the damselfish, a strikingly brilliant blue wrasse and seven species of zig-zag rainbow fish, an 11cm-long creature which lives in shallow waters.
Conservationists discover more than 1,000 species in New Guinea
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On the opposing spread there are photos of crackling staphylococcus aureus, zig-zaggy leptospira, pickle-like vibrio, frightening spirillum volutans, a decaying tree, a microscope, and . . . wait for it . . . a bighorn sheep.
Archive 2006-11-01
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They had now abandoned the zig-zagging course and were taking a direct route around the north of Ireland and toward the North Channel.
The Brighton Boys in the Radio Service
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Some harp parts consist almost entirely of zig-zag lines!
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The sleeves can be serged or zig-zagged instead of turned under.
Alfred Augustus Glendening 1861-1903
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In the 10-year period in question, 33 new fish species have been found in the waters around the island, including the damselfish, a strikingly brilliant blue wrasse and seven species of zig-zag rainbow fish, an 11cm-long creature which lives in shallow waters.
Conservationists discover more than 1,000 species in New Guinea
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The self-cleaning, stepped shoulder blocks provide enhanced traction in deep mud and snow while the high-angled center tread blocks and zig-zag microgrooves deliver improved lateral stability and traction in rain and snow -- all while reducing road noise.
Goodyear DuraTrac Tires
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The prey very soon learns that just running away from the predator as fast as it can is doomed to failure, whereas turning randomly to move in a zig-zag fashion is much more successful.
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A hov zig-zagged past the side of the roadway, causing Connell to jump and drop his comm.
NaNoWriMo: Stranded « The Graveyard
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The path zig-zags on, levelling off before the summit.
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You zig-zag around your room, never quite focused and accomplishing nada.
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He told the jury the bloodstained footprints found in the hall had a distinctive zig-zag pattern that was also found imprinted in soft soil where the killer escaped through the back garden.
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Pennsylvania marks are a coarse incuse or zig-zag border that speak of handmade stamps, and are often large (onequarter inch or more).
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So I sent for 55 black-and-white, zig-zag gumshields and that was the hoot, that was what got the youngsters interested.
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While Mortar was thus learnedly discoursing, Sel-quist herded his team over to a staircase, which was cut out of the rock wall and zig-zagged down the side of the cliff.
The Doom Brigade
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We scurried along walls and zig-zagged from floor to floor effortlessly, battering demonic beetles with nunchakus, all to the accompaniment of a sweeping symphonic score.
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Our protection was speed and keeping a zig-zag course.
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I had a 26-inch IC barrel for pheasant, and I provided entertainment for zig-zagging doves by wasting a few boxes in "antiaircraft fire", but the best I ever shot at the skeet range was 19 out of 25 with a borrowed Franchi O/U 20 gauge!
Feathers vs Clay
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The facing of it, or architrave, was often ornamented with the zig-zag, billet, and other mouldings.
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Regarding the execrable pact between Nazi Germany and Stalinist Russia, which shocked many former communist sympathizers into lives of anticommunism, Mr. Hobsbawm dismisses the "zig-zags and turns of Comintern and Soviet policy," specifically the "about-turn of 1939-41," which "need not detain us here.
How a True Believer Keeps the Faith
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Beyond the woods the path zig-zags steeply uphill and enters a pass between the east slopes of Arkle and the south west slopes of Meall Horn.
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Men could be taken across on a wire ropeway, but the heavy materials had to be transported by horses on a steep zig-zag track on the side of the canyon.
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They held their peavies across their bodies as balancing-poles, and zig-zagged ashore with a calmness and lack of haste that were in reality only an indication of the keenness with which they fore-estimated each chance.
Americans All Stories of American Life of To-Day
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In dry, open woodlands, thickets, and roadsides, from August to October, we find the dainty White Wood Aster (_A. divaricatus_) -- _A. corymbosus_ of Gray -- its brittle zig-zag stem two feet high or less, branching at the top, and repeatedly forked where loose clusters of flower-heads spread in a broad, rather flat corymb.
Wild Flowers Worth Knowing
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The ornamental details and mouldings of this style generally partake of late Norman character; and the zig-zag and semicylindrical mouldings on the faces of arches appear to predominate, though other Norman mouldings are common; but we also frequently meet with specimens in the Semi-Norman style in which extreme plainness prevails, and the character is of that nature as to induce us to ascribe such buildings to rather an early period.
The Principles of Gothic Ecclesiastical Architecture, Elucidated by Question and Answer, 4th ed.
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Bizarre bazaar: The classic and 21st-century head shop gear included a $500 sterling-silver, ruby-and-sapphire-studded belt buckle engraved with Jerry Garcia's image; tie-dyed Bill Blass Jeans-label smocks, $50; hemp wallets, $14; and packs of Zig-Zag rolling papers, $2.
Expecting Rain
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The conical upper section of the mountain is reached and the well-defined, rocky path zig-zags to the short summit ridge with its steep drop into the ben's north-east corrie.
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My nine-year-old, Sam, is somewhere in that poncho, paddling a zig-zagging course between the vine-cloaked banks of the quiet waterway.
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I adopted a zig-zag pattern, defying her to predict my passage beneath her bough, gave her a wide berth once more and avoided her attack.
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Press down to seal, and trim with a zig-zag pasta cutter.
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Each section flies a zig-zag from here to the Front and back.
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Flexuous - ose: almost zig-zag, without acute angles but more acute at angles than undulating: differs from sinuate in being alternately bent and nearly straight.
Explanation of Terms Used in Entomology
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As we walk to the edge of a stream, a stickleback freezes, then darts away in a series of rapid zig-zags punctuated by brief pauses.
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The sheet of graphite has rows of conjoined hexagons, separated by horizontally running zig-zag lines.
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But amongst the trinkets, including a $500 sterling-silver, ruby-and-sapphire-studded belt buckle engraved with Jerry Garcia's image, $50 tie-dyed Bill Blass Jeans-label smocks, $14 hemp wallets and packs of $2 Zig-Zag rolling papers are a range of lavish books produced by
Macworld UK News
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Press down to seal, and trim with a zig-zag pasta cutter.
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We trolled a zig-zag course along a drop-off, the deep water hitting 150 fathoms.
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Pence's leanings seemed to have zig-zagged in recent months.
Indiana Rep. Mike Pence passes on 2012 presidential bid
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Trenches and low walls of earth braced with wooden beams zig-zagged their way across the fields to where troops laboured at raising bulwarks against rifle fire.
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There is often a mass killing that ends the performance as each person takes out a kris, the short zig-zag bladed knife, and stabs his own body.