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US
/ˈzɪɡzæɡ/
]
[ UK /zˈɪɡzæɡ/ ]
[ UK /zˈɪɡzæɡ/ ]
NOUN
- an angular shape characterized by sharp turns in alternating directions
ADVERB
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in a zigzag course or on a zigzag path
birds flew zigzag across the blue sky
VERB
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travel along a zigzag path
The river zigzags through the countryside
ADJECTIVE
- having short sharp turns or angles
How To Use zigzag In A Sentence
- Half an hour later, Willie's nose zigzagged up a rise onto level patch of sun where, a hundred years ago, a house had stood.
- Scrambling to her feet, she zigzagged away across the wasteland, through the grimy cans an(l hubcaps and other roadside jetsam. COMPULSION
- The building exploits the drama of this interlocked matrix of mass and light as stepped ramps zigzag through the atrium, revealing the sheer concrete wall and the great tottering stack of galleries.
- Chefs zigzag in formation over the cobbles, disappearing through a warren of doors with bread baskets and trays of millefeuille. Times, Sunday Times
- Union soldiers completed digging a series of ditches that zigzagged forward and reached the abatis.
- Joining the disks are thin wire strands, painted yellow and orange, that zigzag across the front.
- My advice to you is always move in a zigzag fashion and stay close to trees '. Times, Sunday Times
- Shooting at them on the zigzag is iffy at best, but hard to resist. What is a snipe and how do you hunt them?
- He's been zigzagging across the continent for nearly 20 years, non-stop.
- Fish it crosscurrent with a start-stop retrieve: It will hop and zigzag from seam to seam, something that gets trout, smallmouths, and walleyes to take notice. $7; 952-224-3649; www. salmo-usa.com SALMO TENO
