sidewind
Americanverb (used without object)
Etymology
Origin of sidewind
First recorded in 1925–30; back formation from sidewinder
Example Sentences
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Snakes can sidewind over sand, leap between trees, and undulate underwater.
From National Geographic ● Jan. 11, 2021
Snakes slither, sidewind and have even been known to launch themselves from one tree to another.
From Scientific American ● Jan. 11, 2021
One mighty squadron, with a sidewind sped, Through narrow lanes his cumber'd fire does haste, By powerful charms of gold and silver led The Lombard bankers and the Change to waste.
From Six Centuries of English Poetry Tennyson to Chaucer by James Baldwin
I scorn, like a British sailor, to do that by a sidewind, Farmer, that I ought not to do openly; but there are two sides to a blanket.
From Rattlin the Reefer by Frederick Marryat
The main difficulty arose from the tendency again to smuggle in statements favourable to infallibility, and paving the way for its definition by a sidewind.
From Letters From Rome on the Council by Johann Joseph Ignaz von D?llinger
Under the lights, Jennifer sidewinded across the stage, letting Sosie mock-throw a jar of Lady ’Stache Off at her.
From "Beauty Queens" by Libba Bray
When war came a second time, and canvases became harder to procure, she made smaller but no less ambitious drawings, where sidewinding squiggles face off with hard-edged angles.
From New York Times ● Nov. 26, 2021
The result is a beguiling, sidewinding meditation on “the possibility of dissolution of identity itself, of release, with all of its cosmic, ungraspable meanings.”
From Seattle Times ● May 7, 2021
The Marlins received minor league reliever Tommy Eveld in return for Ziegler, a right-hander with a sidewinding throwing motion.
From Reuters ● Jul. 31, 2018
The Cubs trailed 6-3 before they got to Cishek in the ninth, handing the sidewinding right-hander his sixth blown save in 31 opportunities.
From Washington Times ● Aug. 1, 2016
I nicknamed her Screwzy, for the impractical, sidewinding course of her days.
From "Becoming" by Michelle Obama
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