Example Sentences
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“It would be an arrogant thing to think we’re alone,” she says as the black SUV she’s sitting in zigzags through Midtown Manhattan traffic.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 4, 2026
A former Marine, Puerta now zigzags the nation sharing his son’s story.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 5, 2025
We are hardly the first generation of women to know in our bones that progress comes in zigzags and waves, and occasional backlash.
From Slate ● Sep. 29, 2023
It zigzags from street level down to that same pasture, the jutting gray concrete of each turn as raw as an exposed ridgeline.
From New York Times ● Jul. 10, 2023
The craft were small and flew low, banking back and forth in lazy zigzags, and the noise of the surf had covered the subtle whine of their propellers.
From "Hollow City" by Ransom Riggs
