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Example sentences for "sinuously"

Lexicographically close words:
sinuately; sinum; sinuosities; sinuosity; sinuous; sinus; sinuses; sions; sios; sip
  1. Presently over the top of the ridge, at the gap wherein had first appeared the form of the leaping buck, a low, dark shape came, moving sinuously and with deadly swiftness.

  2. But when he moved, and they saw the rope trail sinuously behind him through the scanty grass, they were almost paralyzed with panic.

  3. The flight was as true as if set by a compass; but the longer limb of the V would curve and swerve sinuously from time to time as the weaker or less experienced members of the flock wavered in their alignment.

  4. Beelzebub, scampering sinuously from clump to clump of the long grass, flattened himself to a shadow as the owl launched silently from the limb, legs pointing downward and curved talons rigid.

  5. The big cat rubbed sinuously against a table leg, circled the room, and crouched beside the stove again.

  6. He threw it viciously from him after removing it, so that it flew over the top of the partition and swished sinuously upon the floor of the kitchen.

  7. The cowboys started them westward slowly, for trail cattle do not travel fast, urging them on with voice and quirt until the line stretched out into a sinuously weaving band a mile long.

  8. Adela, between cajolery and protest, somewhat older and facially more artificial, but eternally blonde; still holding her fair head on one side and sinuously waving the palm.

  9. She seemed to float sinuously and voluptuously immersed in it, as in tepid water lit with sunshine.

  10. His long, loose-jointed body twisted sinuously as he moved--the only living creature to be seen up and down the level desolation of those bleak shores.

  11. On the flanks of the flashing host he dived, swimming sinuously and with extraordinary swiftness like a seal.

  12. The team twisted sinuously and swiftly in the trail as he sped over the edge of the mountain.

  13. He was no more than a shadow, appearing and disappearing without warning, trailing as the white ermine follows its prey, noiseless, alert, his body responding sinuously and without apparent effort to the working commands of his brain.

  14. A moment later the tablecloth of red damask, moved by apparently the same mysterious impulse, slowly gathered itself under Ah Fe's fingers, and sinuously disappeared by the same hidden channel.

  15. She went over to the big nursery washstand, and turning the cold water faucet, ran the bowl full, and then plunged her face and hands in.

  16. Eagerly the girls opened the boxes, and inside, on a bit of cotton wool, lay two lovely rings exactly alike.

  17. Such wide stretches of country, as the road crept along the mountain-brow, or curved sinuously down to the far valley!

  18. Crossing the fingers of her upraised hands, she bent her whole body forward, so that she appeared more sinuously slender than ever, and the curve of her body almost resembled a white ring.

  19. She was sinuously slender, like a white serpent.

  20. All night she trailed sinuously over the peaceful sea, and as the cold dawn was breaking she slid past the south end of Lundy Island with a freshening breeze at her stern.

  21. As the vessel trailed sinuously over the quiet sea, the captain's thoughts were centred on material things and the reception he was likely to have on meeting the men his mind's eye pictured as cut-throat ruffians.


  22. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "sinuously" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.