Example Sentences

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Since her election, Clayton has zigzagged across the state to meet with party leaders, precinct chairs, volunteers and voters.

From Washington Post • Mar. 28, 2023

He has reserved some of his strongest words of concern for the economy as the stock market - the principal talking point for his reelection effort - has zigzagged like a fever chart.

From Washington Times • Mar. 3, 2020

Since then — sometimes with Kaine, sometimes without — she has zigzagged around North Carolina and Florida, gone back to Pennsylvania, stopped in Massachusetts and swung through New Hampshire.

From Washington Post • Sep. 4, 2016

He has zigzagged from each trend into the next.

From Slate • Dec. 3, 2014

In the space of two seconds, my mind has zigzagged from her unwillingness to perform, to her history with the elephant tramp, to her lemonade thievery, and back to the cabbage patch.

From "Water for Elephants" by Sara Gruen