Birds flew zigzag across the blue sky. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
The trench, like all the others, was excavated in short, zigzag lengths, so that no point, either to right or left, commanded more than a score of yards of it. From Wordnik.com. [Michael] Reference
The resulting kilns, known as the zigzag kilns, have a faster firing schedule than the Hoffmann kiln. From Wordnik.com. [Chapter 10] Reference
What about the new "zigzag" tactics of the Carter administration?. From Wordnik.com. [Israel and Dissidence] Reference
Then she allowed Prudy to walk as "zigzag" as she pleased; for Mrs. Parlin had long patience with her children. From Wordnik.com. [Little Prudy's Dotty Dimple] Reference
Alas, if a dieter wonders - 'how I can raise my metabolism', then he or she can "zigzag" his or her caloric intake. From Wordnik.com. [EzineArticles] Reference
Since we're on the subject, and forgive me if this has been answered before, why is it that the bridge has a "zigzag" shape to it?. From Wordnik.com. [Mandolin Cafe News] Reference
The zigzag was the most common feature, though birds’ heads with the beaks pointing toward the centre of the arch were not uncommon. From Wordnik.com. [A Text-Book of the History of Architecture Seventh Edition, revised] Reference
The rough "slash fences" made of brushwood and fallen trees, gave place to the no less ugly, but more substantial "zigzag" of cedar rails. From Wordnik.com. [David Fleming's Forgiveness] Reference
Both told it zigzag but it was the same kind of zigzag each had together. ". From Wordnik.com. [Rootabaga Stories] Reference
This would involve a zigzag route and require considerable time. From Wordnik.com. [The Life of Abraham Lincoln] Reference
The zigzag solo shouldn't bug anyone who digs excitable Eric Dolphy. From Wordnik.com. [Vintage Recordings From Anthony Braxton] Reference
It was not even considered prudent to make further zigzag approaches. From Wordnik.com. [The Rise of Canada, from Barbarism to Wealth and Civilisation Volume 1] Reference
Why does a cow or horse take a zigzag path when climbing a steep hill?. From Wordnik.com. [Ontario Teachers' Manuals: Nature Study] Reference
But now again the Cuban kiddy drifted towards him, making for the zigzag. From Wordnik.com. [Adventures in Many Lands] Reference
But prices zigzag, and the average of each monthly gain comes to only 1,400. From Wordnik.com. [$ $ $ $ Tactics] Reference
The problem is compounded by uncertainty over the SPD's zigzag course on reforms. From Wordnik.com. [WHAT'S GOING RIGHT] Reference
A man rounds the corner, zigzag shadow reaching for the woman who steps out of it. From Wordnik.com. [The Chase] Reference
"zigzag, zigzag," yells Corporal Khalid Aziz, 24, to the Iraqi soldiers in front of him. From Wordnik.com. [A Daily Dance With Death] Reference
= Same as cheviot, only in the weaving the pattern is marked by zigzag lines or stripes. From Wordnik.com. [Textiles For Commercial, Industrial, and Domestic Arts Schools; Also Adapted to Those Engaged in Wholesale and Retail Dry Goods, Wool, Cotton, and Dressmaker's Trades] Reference
The zigzag moulding forming the innermost order was continuous along the jambs and arch. From Wordnik.com. [Bell's Cathedrals: Southwark Cathedral Formerly the Collegiate Church of St. Saviour, Otherwise St. Mary Overie. A Short History and Description of the Fabric, with Some Account of the College and the See] Reference
One person acts as leader and walks in a zigzag path around the obstacles, followed by the others. From Wordnik.com. [Games For All Occasions] Reference
Joe spaces them 18 inches apart in a zigzag pattern, and he has six plants in one of his 12-foot-long raised beds. From Wordnik.com. [Groundwork: Okra time] Reference
But when he and a dozen others had made the desperate descent of the zigzag, they found that the dead man was Domecq. From Wordnik.com. [Adventures in Many Lands] Reference
Germans and where the French, so completely was I turned around on account of the constant zigzag of the trench lines. From Wordnik.com. [New York Times Current History; The European War, Vol 2, No. 4, July, 1915 April-September, 1915] Reference
Manin, 330 ft. above the sea, and extending westward in a zigzag form to the railway station by the Albergo dei Poveri. From Wordnik.com. [The South of France—East Half] Reference
Below me, along one of the zigzag paths which wind up the hill, a man and a girl were coming up, and arrested my attention. From Wordnik.com. [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference
About half way across the Atlantic the ship began to take a zigzag course and the direction was changed every three minutes. From Wordnik.com. [The Biography of a Rabbit] Reference
It was a ticklish zigzag, just to the left of the transporting machinery, with twenty places in which a slip would mean death. From Wordnik.com. [Adventures in Many Lands] Reference
For pure bohemian cool, slip into Missoni's wool-knit dress in the house's signature zigzag pattern (1,060 euros; missoni. com). From Wordnik.com. [The Good Life] Reference
The descent to the village is a sharp drop; visitors usually alight above from their coach, and walk down the steep zigzag road. From Wordnik.com. [The Cornwall Coast] Reference
They zigzag near the surface or plunge 80 percent of the way to the core before bouncing up and breaking along the sun's surface. From Wordnik.com. [Mysteries Of The Sun] Reference
The engineering all along the line is marvellous, the way we rose nearly 7,000 feet by a zigzag over the Marshall Pass, or the Great. From Wordnik.com. [A Lady's Life on a Farm in Manitoba] Reference
Night has fallen, but still Eleanor waits on the verandah, with widely-opened eyes, staring along the zigzag path by which Carol rode away. From Wordnik.com. [When the Birds Begin to Sing] Reference
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