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For more than a day, the destroyer had been zigzagging back and forth in the bay of Romani, a niche in the Mediterranean at the entrance to the Suez Canal.

From Time Magazine Archive

It would have been easy enough if I had been zigzagging according to Hoyle.

From Sea-Hounds by Freeman, Lewis R.

Would it have been any easier for Bering if he had known that the consort ship had been zigzagging all the while less than a week's cruise from the St. Peter?

From Vikings of the Pacific The Adventures of the Explorers who Came from the West, Eastward by Laut, Agnes C. (Agnes Christina)

And then the summoning voice of the great blurred figure which had been zigzagging across the grass before him checked him at the very moment of decision.

From Once to Every Man by Fischer, Anton Otto

You see, I had been zigzagging about to make easy climbs out of draws and gulches, and to dodge rocks and brush—and here I was.

From Pluck on the Long Trail Boy Scouts in the Rockies by Sabin, Edwin L. (Edwin Legrand)