I saw a serpent and can't help but admired it's flexible sinuosity. From LearnThat.org.
He hated the sinuosity of mountain roads. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
Noun, : a sinuosity of the road. From Dictionary.com.
Seeing me stare in return, it reared its head, its long neck moving with reptilian sinuosity. From Wordnik.com. [The Zero Stone]
The photograph Margo provides #102 apears to indicate the second factor and that is sinuosity. From Wordnik.com. [Paul Linsay's Poisson Fit « Climate Audit] Reference
In the desert of Somalia, there is a curious sinuosity and pattern to the vegetation as seen from the air. From Wordnik.com. [Some Historical Perspective on Somalia and the Horn] Reference
There is clear sinuosity in the circumpolar vortex and in the flow of the Gulf Stream and North Atlantic drift. From Wordnik.com. [Paul Linsay's Poisson Fit « Climate Audit] Reference
It was for her ability she wanted wolf-whistles (or their intellectual equivalent) and not for the sinuosity she couldn't help. From Wordnik.com. [Fantastic Voyage]
With boneless sinuosity Synelle rose and began to dance, her feet striking the floor in time with the pounding of the scabbards. From Wordnik.com. [Conan The Triumphant]
It is logical to assume that a weather system moving through the uniform medium of the atmosphere will be subjected to sinuosity. From Wordnik.com. [Paul Linsay's Poisson Fit « Climate Audit] Reference
Nor could he distinguish more than a very shadowy glimpse of forms which glided close to the ground with an unpleasant sinuosity. From Wordnik.com. [Star Born] Reference
The overall feeling is that of sinuosity and impenetrability and this was made possible by using carbon fiber to build the pieces. From Wordnik.com. [Reinventing The Bathroom : Bathtub + Shower by Ron Arad] Reference
The sinuosity of the loft is taken back by the upside-down cones that, I suspended as stalactites, they channel downward the light. From Wordnik.com. [Coni Rovesci by Duilio Damilano] Reference
I would still like some response to my other points about angular momentum and sinuosity as applied to the movement of hurricanes. From Wordnik.com. [Paul Linsay's Poisson Fit « Climate Audit] Reference
Out by a quarter to eight to examine the river Brent at Hendon; a mere brooklet, running in most dainty sinuosity under overshadowing oaks and all manner of leafiness. From Wordnik.com. [The Mind of the Artist Thoughts and Sayings of Painters and Sculptors on Their Art] Reference
Mist gathered here, there, and everywhere, according to no pattern the captain recognized, gray tendrils rising to dance and swirl with the sinuosity of living beings. From Wordnik.com. [Conan and The Mists of Door]
Take the rich colors of a Rossetti, add the sinuosity of line of a Burne-Jones, and lay as a foundation beneath it all the lively spirit of a Millais, and you had Sebastian. From Wordnik.com. [The Gates Of Sleep]
It appears this is the information I had heard about, namely that sinuosity is an atttempt to maximum energy efficiencies by overcoming restrictions such as friction throughout an entire sysem. From Wordnik.com. [Paul Linsay's Poisson Fit « Climate Audit] Reference
Her golden eyes were set slantwise in her flat face, which could have been catlike; but she gave an impression less like a cat and far more like a lizard with her sinuosity and her curious stillness. From Wordnik.com. [The Lark And The Wren]
The characteristic sinuosity of his style and the remarkable concision of thought it embodies developed in great part during the five or more years he spent in the closest of all embraces with Ruskin's English. From Wordnik.com. [Kilmartin's Way] Reference
Each sinuosity forms a marsh more or less extensive. From Wordnik.com. [Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America, During the Year 1799-1804 — Volume 1] Reference
Its sinuosity is not so remarkable in the upper part of its course. From Wordnik.com. [Smith's Bible Dictionary] Reference
Marrying the sinuosity of contemporary dance to a fractured postmodernism, the. From Wordnik.com. [The Guardian World News] Reference
At length, near ten o'clock, we reached the foot of Mount Cenis, where sinuosity of course could avail us no further. From Wordnik.com. [Glances at Europe In a Series of Letters from Great Britain, France, Italy, Switzerland, &c. During the Summer of 1851.] Reference
So-al was a mighty fine-looking girl, built like a tigress as to strength and sinuosity, but withal sweet and womanly. From Wordnik.com. [The People That Time Forgot] Reference
He saw how they set their little feet, how they carried their chins, with what grace and sinuosity they swung their bodies. From Wordnik.com. [Sister Carrie: a Novel] Reference
Wentworth, the oldest living contortionist, is about seventy years of age, but seems to have lost none of his earlier sinuosity. From Wordnik.com. [Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine] Reference
It is perfectly manageable, and, being sharpened to a point, may be applied with certainty to every recess and sinuosity of the wound. From Wordnik.com. [The Dog] Reference
The Zambesi is thought to present a great difficulty to the erosion theory, because of the sinuosity of the chasm below the Victoria Falls. From Wordnik.com. [Fragments of science, V. 1-2] Reference
Without a word of explanation he strode into the dense undergrowth, through which he went with the agility of a panther and the sinuosity of. From Wordnik.com. [The Fugitives The Tyrant Queen of Madagascar] Reference
We stopped below the mouth of the Cano de la Tigrera, in a sinuosity called la Vuelta del Joval, to measure the velocity of the water at its surface. From Wordnik.com. [Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America, During the Year 1799-1804 — Volume 2] Reference
Add to this the silent sinuosity of his glide; he seems to ooze around the bumps and stumps, and bottle up his frightful energy for the final fearsome leap. From Wordnik.com. [Wild Animals at Home] Reference
The mouth, once so fresh and rosy, now had colder tints; it was straight no longer, but inclined to the right, -- a sinuosity that seemed to indicate falsehood. From Wordnik.com. [The Deputy of Arcis] Reference
The configuration of caverns, like the outline of mountains, the sinuosity of valleys, and so many other phenomena, present at first sight only irregularity and confusion. From Wordnik.com. [Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America, During the Year 1799-1804 — Volume 1] Reference
Camille's neck, instead of curving inward at the nape, curves out in a line that unites the head to the shoulders without sinuosity, a most signal characteristic of force. From Wordnik.com. [Beatrix] Reference
The school of Praxiteles, as distinguished from that of Pheidias, is especially the school of grace, relaxing a little the severe ethical tension of the latter, in favour of a slightly Asiatic sinuosity and tenderness. From Wordnik.com. [Greek Studies: a Series of Essays] Reference
It “showed off” — the most decadent sinuosity. From Wordnik.com. [The Wheels of Chance: a bicycling idyll] Reference
Camille’s neck, instead of curving inward at the nape, curves out in a line that unites the head to the shoulders without sinuosity, a most signal characteristic of force. From Wordnik.com. [Beatrix] Reference
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