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curving in and out

sinuous = curving in and out

The appearance resembled the reflection of the moon, or some luminous body; for the edges were sinuous from the undulations of the surface.
Darwin, Charles -- The Voyage of the Beagle
Avoiding the obstructions gave it the sinuous movement of a serpent.
Crane, Stephen -- The Red Badge of Courage
Out from the water a long sinuous tentacle had crawled; it was pale-green and luminous and wet.
J.R.R. Tolkien -- The Fellowship of the Ring

sinuous = curving in and out

The bridge rose to meet him, sinuous as a serpent.
Henry H. Neff -- The Second Siege

sinuous = curving in and out

She turned to David, her vision spotted with sinuous shapes from staring into the fire.
Scott Westerfeld -- Uglies

sinuous = curving in and out

Then she was in the water, swimming to the floating surfboard with a sinuous crawl.
F. Scott Fitzgerald -- Winter Dreams

sinuous = curving in and out

It became imperative that he take hold of the bottom rung of the sinuous ladder
Kurt Vonnegut -- Slaughterhouse-Five

sinuous = curving in and out

They twined sinuously together, making shapes like the vines and creepers in a jungle, like patterns woven into the nap of a thick carpet.
Stephen King -- The Shining

sinuously = curving in and out

With its sinuous trunk it stroked the huge corpse; then it reached up, broke some leafy branches with a snap, and draped them over the mass of torn thick flesh.
Lois Lowry -- The Giver

sinuous = curving in and out

For what end are her fair complexities, her changes of soil, her sinuous coast?
Forster, E. M. -- Howards End
The sinuous tail, undulating slowly at its tufted extremity, whipped suddenly erect.
Burroughs, Edgar Rice -- Tarzan the Untamed
Turjun, the panthan, crept close to the companionway, his sinuous fingers closing tightly upon the hilt of his dagger.
Burroughs, Edgar Rice -- Thuvia, Maid of Mars
Waves of sinuous shadow went over the ripe hayfields, and plundering bees sang a freebooting lilt in wayside gardens.
Montgomery, Lucy Maud -- The Golden Road
Hundreds of barrowsful of earth amalgamated with pebbles, and rounded into cones, with sinuous.
Dumas, Alexandre -- Ten Years Later
The tip of his sinuous tail twitched nervously.
Burroughs, Edgar Rice -- Tarzan and the Jewels of Opar
Even the Ape-man lacked that inward sinuous curve of the back which makes the human figure so graceful.
Wells, H.G. -- The Island of Doctor Moreau
She walked stiffly—for the moment she had lost the sinuous grace of movement which had been one of her many fascinations.
Oppenheim, E. Phillips -- The Malefactor
A sinuous trunk undulated toward him, touching his brown hide in a half caress.
Burroughs, Edgar Rice -- The Son Of Tarzan
She was clad in some kind of soft white stuff, which clung close to her form, showing to the full every movement of her sinuous figure.
Stoker, Bram -- The Lair of the White Worm

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