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The artist Francesca DiMattio is zigzagging across her vast, warehouselike studio in the rural town of Hillsdale, N.Y., simultaneously firing porcelain, hand-painting ceramic flowers and touching up pottery glazes for three different sculptures.

From New York Times • Mar. 6, 2018

One of the patients is zigzagging about the fairway like a liner pursued by submarines.

From The Clicking of Cuthbert by Wodehouse, P. G. (Pelham Grenville)

The steamship herself is zigzagging, rendering accurate calculations as to her course uncertain.

From Our Navy in the War by Perry, Lawrence