How to Use pendulous in a Sentence

pendulous

adjective

• If the branches are pendulous and hang down, boost up the pot so the branches hang gracefully.
  — Dan Gill, NOLA.com, 18 Dec. 2017
• The flowers are produced on a long, pendulous stalk with dusky purple bracts.
  — NOLA.com, 19 Aug. 2017
• At night the pendulous blooms release an ambrosial scent.
  — R. Daniel Foster, latimes.com, 22 June 2018
• If tower four fails, the platform could either crash through the dish or make a pendulous swing into a nearby cliff.
  — Nadia Drake, National Geographic, 12 Nov. 2020
• Kent Beauty is a small, mounding plant with pendulous stems ending in these strange blooms, which endure for weeks.
  — Washington Post, 5 Feb. 2020
• Beyond the midway’s pendulous ships and elliptical coasters rise the white spires of the talent show tent.
  — Anya Groner, Longreads, 9 June 2017
• There are just a few of us standing around while these big, bizarre creatures, whose pendulous noses hang down past their mouths, honk and roar at each other while bickering over guavas.
  — Christopher Bagley, Condé Nast Traveler, 15 Nov. 2018
• Sweat slid down my sides and into the new crevices of my emptied-out and rearranged gut, which was stacked up in a pile beneath my pendulous breasts, my stinging nipples.
  — Meaghan O'Connell, Longreads, 10 Apr. 2018
• Aerial photos show that the platform likely made a pendulous swing into a nearby rock face.
  — Nadia Drake, Science, 1 Dec. 2020
• Then, just before the Fourth of July, two adult orioles began bringing tender morsels of yumminess to a hanging, pendulous nest in the tree.
  — Sheryl Devore, chicagotribune.com, 9 July 2021
• Weeping white pine: Its pendulous branches and dwarf stature are quite appealing.
  — oregonlive, 3 Dec. 2020
• Growing 1-3 feet tall and wide, Gartenmeister fuchsia grows upright when young but becomes more pendulous with age.
  — Karen Dardick, San Diego Union-Tribune, 18 July 2019
• Katz brackets the sensuous fruit abstractly, with pendulous flat green shapes masked by striped columns.
  — Cate McQuaid, BostonGlobe.com, 30 May 2018
• Consisting of three pendulous forms made of netting (Echelman’s oeuvre is inspired by watching net makers on a beach in India years ago), the shapes subtly move with air currents in the terminal.
  — Erika Mailman, Washington Post, 6 Mar. 2020
• The unattended soil must contain a perfect blend of acidity; the saturated colors of the voluptuous, pendulous flowers that cluster on the lightweight branches range from faint whitish-blue to deep pink and dusky purple.
  — Chicago Tribune, chicagotribune.com, 2 June 2018
• Her law clerks purchased the necklace—sunflower-like with its bright yellow beadwork and pendulous small crystal balls—from Anthropologie.
  — Alicia Ault, Smithsonian Magazine, 6 Apr. 2022
• The Rays, again getting by on their wits and wiggling into playoff contention by winning more with less this season, came out of a pendulous game with a victory in their typically untypical fashion.
  — Hunter Atkins, Houston Chronicle, 29 Aug. 2019
• The carved channels delineate in negative space the pendulous breasts, somnolent grimace and agitated body.
  — Los Angeles Times, 3 Feb. 2022
• Davis taps his phone and large, pendulous, red lanterns gradually illuminate, revealing a row of 250-gallon copper fermentors.
  — Wayne Curtis, WIRED, 30 May 2017
• Veterinary pathologists examining a camelpox outbreak among male dromedaries in India noted pendulous lips and scrotal pox.
  — Rafil Kroll-Zaidi, Harper's Magazine, 27 Apr. 2021

Last Updated: 11 Sep 2024