Example Sentences

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These drenched parcels of air parcel flow sinuously along, an “atmospheric river” winding its way toward land.

From National Geographic • Jan. 25, 2024

He still moves his camera around, sinuously but never distractingly.

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 15, 2023

And there is Quvianaqtuk Pudlat, a gifted late bloomer who worked as a water truck driver and a sport hunting guide before moving to drawings of Sandhill and Whooping cranes sinuously flowing across the page.

From New York Times • Jun. 1, 2022

Greenwell, whose 2016 “What Belongs to You” established a new bar for literary fiction with its sinuously elegant prose, returns with a set of stunning vignettes about a young gay man’s experiences in Sofia, Bulgaria.

From Washington Post • Dec. 31, 2019

Its horns thinned, stretching longer to coil spiral at the ends, as sinuously as ink poured into water.

From "Strange the Dreamer" by Laini Taylor