They took a leisurely ride in their canoe down the sinuous river. From LearnThat.org.
Or how about neon that followed the contours of natural objects, such as trees or rocks, in sinuous organic shapes, as part of the Queen's garden?. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2007-08-01] Reference
Now I don't really favor making them "sinuous" either... no neural spines sticking out all anorexic-like. From Wordnik.com. [Life's Time Capsule: Discussion Topic: Sauropod Necks... Slender or Thick?] Reference
The pain was swift and intense, and spread with a redheat kind of sinuous threading that would pitch into a severely painful tightening of the entire uterus. From Wordnik.com. [wendchymes Diary Entry] Reference
Here glides the huge Snake forth with sinuous coils. From Wordnik.com. [The Georgics] Reference
Fé road, and followed its sinuous windings for some days. From Wordnik.com. [Seven and Nine years Among the Camanches and Apaches An Autobiography] Reference
She executes a sinuous pantomimic dance of youth and desire. From Wordnik.com. [Clair de Lune A Play in Two Acts and Six Scenes] Reference
For most of the century, Niemeyer has made his sinuous statement. From Wordnik.com. [Skyline Sculptor] Reference
An early bird warning system to stymie the sorties of the sinuous slayer. From Wordnik.com. [Knell Quarternion] Reference
Gillette had sent sinuous paths winding through it for the contemplative strolls. From Wordnik.com. [I Am Charlotte Simmons] Reference
Leaving the ships, he chased them among the rocky islands and the sinuous fiords. From Wordnik.com. [Wealth of the World's Waste Places and Oceania] Reference
Hungrily, their sinuous bodies rock and quake until both explode in rapturous pleasure. From Wordnik.com. [Move Over, ‘Meerkat Manor’] Reference
But now I can relax more and sing in a lower register - a little more sinuous, perhaps. From Wordnik.com. [Sting On His World Tour And Humanitarian Work] Reference
Porte de Saint-Pancrace, to follow by that of Cavallegieri the sinuous line of the Urban walls. From Wordnik.com. [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference
Her hands were sinuous as serpents, the fingers tapering, the nails very long like the Chinese. From Wordnik.com. [Valley of the Croen] Reference
It may be described as an alternation of lofty bluffs and sinuous ravines, -- the former known as. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 14, No. 85, November, 1864] Reference
Slow and sinuous progress of two hundred yards brought us to a blockade of logs and to shallow water. From Wordnik.com. [Lippincott's Magazine, Vol. 26, August, 1880 of Popular Literature and Science] Reference
He gave a rapid sinuous one-sided shrug that made it look for a moment as if his left arm had three elbows. From Wordnik.com. [The Creature from Cleveland Depths] Reference
Nile pours a mighty flood, winding a sinuous passage along its self-made flood-plain, the Egypt of history. From Wordnik.com. [Wealth of the World's Waste Places and Oceania] Reference
Like sinuous coils of spaghetti, it looked, and also curiously like vast up-pointed girders of steel and iron. From Wordnik.com. [The Seed of the Toc-Toc Birds] Reference
Cheadle, 34, is the sinuous actor whose supporting performances lit up "Out of Sight" and "Devil in a Blue Dress.". From Wordnik.com. [They've Got Next] Reference
I have watched him since, and his conduct has been as sinuous as the mark left in the dust by the movement of a snake. From Wordnik.com. [Memoirs of the Union's Three Great Civil War Generals] Reference
Breaching the high ground of Salisbury Plain, it passes Amesbury, and following a very sinuous course reaches Salisbury. From Wordnik.com. [Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 1 "Austria, Lower" to "Bacon"] Reference
Her long hair, sinuous in the buoyant water, undulates in front of her like strange tentacles flying by one after another. From Wordnik.com. [The Impulse of Breathing] Reference
The sinuous, cantilevered exterior, executed in rugged, sand-colored limestone, brings to mind wind-worn canyons and cliffs. From Wordnik.com. [RETURN OF THE NATIVE] Reference
Not a single album featuring Sonic Youth's odd guitar tunings, sinuous rhythms and neo-Beat lyrics has ever sold 500,000 copies. From Wordnik.com. [Fringe Benefits] Reference
He threshed the water into foam with his long, sinuous body, while his head wagged and his terrible eyes looked toward the land. From Wordnik.com. [Omega, the Man] Reference
Any of the elongated forms described above may be curved or sinuous or twisted into a corkscrew-like spiral instead of straight. From Wordnik.com. [Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 2 "Baconthorpe" to "Bankruptcy"] Reference
In this avant-garde vision of evil, sinuous camera movements and strange shadows draw a young man into a home visited by the undead. From Wordnik.com. [A Bite in the Darkness] Reference
His 2005 film "Nine Lives" consists of nine single shots, each a long and sinuous portrait of a different woman's epiphany in real time. From Wordnik.com. [A 'Mother' Lode Of Up-Close Psychological Realism] Reference
A crowd of these long vibrios were to be seen creeping slowly along, with a sinuous movement, showing three, four, or even five flexures. From Wordnik.com. [The Harvard Classics Volume 38 Scientific Papers (Physiology, Medicine, Surgery, Geology)] Reference
Too-che was slim, her breasts were two mounds of magic, her eyes were pools of mystic green depths, her legs were subtle, sinuous beauty. From Wordnik.com. [The Sun King] Reference
The beauty of reflections in water is perhaps best viewed along the sinuous banks of the River Loire, famously rich in fairytale ch teaux. From Wordnik.com. [Gardens of Delight] Reference
Named Nanedi Vallis, its "sinuous shape ... suggests that the river that cut the valley was fed largely by groundwater," says geologist Michael Carr of the U.S. From Wordnik.com. [The Search For Life] Reference
A sinuous, psychedelic mural by the New York-based Brazilian artist who goes by the name "assume vivid astro focus" perhaps best synthesizes the Tropicália experience. From Wordnik.com. ['Tropicália' Paradise] Reference
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