Each tendril wrapped itself around a nearby fence post. From LearnThat.org.
The colony spread out a thin tendril and consumed each. From Wordnik.com. [365 tomorrows » 2009 » May : A New Free Flash Fiction SciFi Story Every Day] Reference
Lucy shook a loose tendril of hair out of her eyes. From Wordnik.com. [Thief Of Hearts]
He reached out to take a tendril between his fingers. From Wordnik.com. [The Falcons of Montabard]
A tendril reached out of the water and caught his ankle. From Wordnik.com. [Centaur Aisle]
A single tendril shot up through the sand, and then another. From Wordnik.com. [The Status Civilization] Reference
Here was loop of creeper with a tendril pendant from a node. From Wordnik.com. [Lord of the Flies]
Plucked a long tendril of soft gray from above her left ear. From Wordnik.com. [A Lady of His Own]
He smiled and twined a tendril of her hair around his forefinger. From Wordnik.com. [The Falcons of Montabard]
Then another tendril would spring up, following the same pattern. From Wordnik.com. [Lion Of Macedon]
A chestnut tendril of it escapes her ponytail, twirling in the wind. From Wordnik.com. [Angels Carry the Sun excerpt: Chapter One, In the Woods] Reference
The tendril was losing its healthy silvery sheen, turning a dull gray. From Wordnik.com. [Flinx In Flux]
Beautiful little tendril of hair down coming down the side of her face. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Feb 25, 2008] Reference
One tendril of the slick has already entered an eddy of the Loop Current. From Wordnik.com. [Busy Hurricane Season Spells Trouble For Oil In Gulf] Reference
A tendril of her hair curled out and settled around his muscular forearm. From Wordnik.com. [Dancer's Illusion]
He relented and put her down, but kept a tendril curled around her wrist. From Wordnik.com. [Dancer's Illusion]
"Tonight?" he whispered, as he gently fingered a stray tendril of her hair. From Wordnik.com. [Hero Come Back]
Raising her hand, she wound a tendril of her freed hair around her forefinger. From Wordnik.com. [The Falcons of Montabard]
A stray tendril of hair flopped out of her topknot; she irritably raked it away. From Wordnik.com. [Once An Angel]
An instant later, a thought tendril touched her screens, coldly alert, searching. From Wordnik.com. [The Lion Game]
The weasel is a pretty jumper, but this time a tendril of convolvulus upset his aim. From Wordnik.com. ["Wee Tim'rous Beasties" Studies of Animal life and Character] Reference
In these the pitchers are borne at the tips of the leaves attached to a long tendril. From Wordnik.com. [Elements of Structural and Systematic Botany For High Schools and Elementary College Courses] Reference
The bird-of-paradise plant, startled by the expletive, shed several tendril feathers. From Wordnik.com. [Dragon on a Pedestal]
Looking down, he was horrified to see a thin silvery tendril protruding from the skin. From Wordnik.com. [Flinx In Flux]
The first line was perhaps the tendril of a plant, the first rod possibly a sapling tree. From Wordnik.com. [Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Part 1, Slice 1] Reference
Instantly she withdrew, leaving only the most meager tendril connecting her to the shield. From Wordnik.com. [Fire Dancer]
He curled a tendril of hot gold around his finger, letting Deva recede into the past again. From Wordnik.com. [Dancer's Illusion]
Bringing his hand up to his face, he inspected the tiny wound the drilling tendril had left. From Wordnik.com. [Flinx In Flux]
Instead, it seemed to shine brighter, and I felt a tendril of slimy warmth creep inside the toe. From Wordnik.com. [Warthearm] Reference
Atomic cannon began running out of enormous hatches, like the bristles jutting from a tendril brush. From Wordnik.com. [Victory] Reference
The life of leaf and tendril has shrunk away, but there is nothing sad about the dying of the seed-vessel. From Wordnik.com. [Parables of the Christ-life] Reference
An overturned candle on the floor was still aflame and its feeble tendril rays seemed to reach out towards him. From Wordnik.com. [Knell Quarternion] Reference
But as she passed on before him, her husband saw that the tiny hand still curled tendril-like about her finger. From Wordnik.com. [Other People's Business The Romantic Career of the Practical Miss Dale] Reference
With a gesture half-afraid he put up one finger and touched a tendril of hair that had strayed loose on her neck. From Wordnik.com. [Juggernaut] Reference
Turpin records a tendril of a vine which was fused with the stem for some distance, and bore leaves and other tendrils. From Wordnik.com. [Vegetable Teratology An Account of the Principal Deviations from the Usual Construction of Plants] Reference
When the tendril masses touched the earth, they began burrowing into the ground like the roots of a gigantic banyan tree. From Wordnik.com. [Destiny Narrowly Avoided] Reference
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