How to Use serpentine in a Sentence

serpentine

1 of 2 adjective

• There's a serpentine stone wall and a recessed spot for the grill.
  — Kim Palmer, Star Tribune, 5 Mar. 2021
• And the tight, serpentine roads are difficult for the city to clean.
  — Mike Klingaman, baltimoresun.com, 4 Mar. 2021
• Turns out the serpentine walls aren’t exactly a source of pride for the school.
  — Chuck Schilken, Los Angeles Times, 16 June 2020
• And to make matters worse, the car had no heat due to a broken serpentine belt.
  — Joseph Spector, USA TODAY, 18 Dec. 2020
• The serpentine road cuts back and forth up the mountain, each of its dozen or so switchbacks tight and steep.
  — Michael Barry, WSJ, 25 May 2023
• Plus, this serpentine shape helps guide flow through the narrow space.
  — Hadley Keller, House Beautiful, 23 Feb. 2023
• Movement will wind from the Chinatown Gate through the playground and along the serpentine path leading to the fountain.
  — Karen Campbell, BostonGlobe.com, 7 Sep. 2023
• Brunner lives in Pewaukee, in a sprawling, serpentine house on two acres near the lake.
  — jsonline.com, 16 Nov. 2022
• Anyone who was in the area on the serpentine trail behind the visitor center on the afternoon of Sun.
  — Lilly Price, Baltimore Sun, 9 Apr. 2023
• Researchers named the system Apep after the serpentine Egyptian god of chaos.
  — Ashley Strickland, CNN, 12 Oct. 2020
• The cover of the book, a portion of which adorns the jersey Weiner wears, features a woman biking along a serpentine road.
  — Stephanie Merry, Washington Post, 28 Aug. 2023
• These days, roughly a half-million people each year drive the serpentine Pikes Peak Highway to the summit.
  — Lori Rackl, Chicago Tribune, 28 June 2023
• Many of the fossils found in this part of the world are preserved in the serpentine rivers that meandered through the forests in a landscape dotted with volcanic highlands.
  — Sara Novak, Discover Magazine, 21 Nov. 2023
• Your car needs a regular oil change and, once in a while, a new serpentine belt or alternator.
  — Caroline Delbert, Popular Mechanics, 22 Feb. 2023
• Designs have a subtle, serpentine beauty and allow for plenty of skin to make the total look.
  — Brian T. Allen, National Review, 10 Feb. 2024
• The red, serpentine ribbons of paint are whips, cracking the air, intimidating the crowd.
  — Washington Post, 27 July 2023
• For most of us, the thought of sliding across a patch of ice—at speed—while behind the wheel is fodder for nightmares, ranking right up there with brake failure on a serpentine descent.
  — Viju Mathew, Robb Report, 7 Feb. 2024
• What hasn’t changed is the Michigan duo’s commitment to a constant flow of clammy, serpentine night terrors.
  — Spin Staff, SPIN, 5 June 2023
• Imagine using the smart cubes to someday replace a broken serpentine belt under the hood of a car in an emergency.
  — Larry Greenemeier, Scientific American, 5 Apr. 2012
• Like much of the state’s serpentine swampland, Alexander Springs Wilderness is best explored by paddling.
  — Stephanie Vermillion, Outside Online, 26 July 2021
• Some had trouble finding where the serpentine queue began.
  — Marc Lester, Anchorage Daily News, 31 Oct. 2020
• The expansion will also have a serpentine wall where people can sit and watch what's happening in the park, along with swings, walking paths and space for picnics.
  — Ana Rocío Álvarez Bríñez, The Courier-Journal, 23 June 2022
• The entrance opens to a donor wall, then to a serpentine path that will be lined with markers indicating important dates in the AIDS epidemic.
  — Sylvia Goodman, chicagotribune.com, 28 Dec. 2021
• The fire destroyed nine hundred and eleven homes, and many houses in the region are situated off narrow serpentine roads that make ingress and egress a challenge.
  — Ingfei Chen, The New Yorker, 6 Sep. 2022
• The Wiggle's serpentine S-shape stands in contrast to its rough material.
  — Hadley Keller, House Beautiful, 19 Jan. 2023
• In the final section, alone on the stage and convulsed with the horror of her deeds, Williams brought down the house with her writhing agony, at one point feeding into her mouth a serpentine red tape (the counterpart of Ariadne’s thread).
  — Christopher Benfey, BostonGlobe.com, 17 Aug. 2023
• Kresen was unable to heat the interior because the car's serpentine belt was broken, the police said.
  — Tim Fitzsimons, NBC News, 18 Dec. 2020
• On one side are scientists who argue that the serpentine shape was an aquatic adaptation.
  — Christie Wilcox, Discover Magazine, 24 July 2015
• In the late 19th century most scientists believed the brain was composed of a continuous tangle of fibers as serpentine as a labyrinth.
  — Benjamin Ehrlich, Scientific American, 21 Mar. 2022
• Photographs taken by the United Arab Emirates’ Hope orbiter in 2021 show that the heavenly displays can take on all kinds of serpentine shapes.
  — Shi En Kim, Smithsonian Magazine, 18 Oct. 2023

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serpentine

2 of 2 noun

• One of the softer and less expensive types is serpentine, which is the type of jade used in these rollers.
  — Lauren Manaker, Health, 27 Mar. 2023
• California has the olive-green beauty serpentine--for the moment.
  — Joseph Calamia, Discover Magazine, 14 July 2010
• For Etty, life at Westerbork was an unending serpentine of needs to be fulfilled.
  — Elizabeth Svoboda, Longreads, 30 Apr. 2020
• Every actor’s career follows its own serpentine route to a final bow.
  — Michael Phillips, Chicago Tribune, 30 June 2023
• The rooms are adorned with wood walls, crisp white linens, and pops of color: some suites, for example, have a lime green serpentine couch, whereas others have rugs swirling with Amazonian-like jade, sage, and brown carpet.
  — Elise Taylor, Vogue, 20 Jan. 2022
• Bangkok's main lifeline is the serpentine Chao Phraya River, and along its banks are some of the city's top luxury hotels, oldest neighborhoods, and biggest tourist attractions.
  — Meagan Drillinger, Travel + Leisure, 8 Sep. 2023
• Mélusine, the figure from 14th century French mythology, was a half-woman/half-snake who, when her serpentine self was spied on by her betraying lover, turned into a dragon and took flight.
  — Steve Hochman, SPIN, 28 Mar. 2023
• The dining room area, for example, pairs a serpentine chandelier by Frederik Molenschot with a neon yellow painting by Tishan Hsu.
  — Helena Madden, ELLE Decor, 1 Sep. 2023
• The rocks from 400 meters deep were still permeated with fine serpentine veins, confirming that water had percolated at least that far down.
  — Douglas Fox, Scientific American, 1 July 2021
• The home’s green serpentine marble walls served as an elegant backdrop for conversation, cocktails, and, of course, select pieces from the Fall 2022 Ralph Lauren Home collection.
  — Sean Santiago, ELLE Decor, 14 June 2022
• The abstract pattern includes triangles, squares, circles, and rectangles made of onyx, purple porphyry, green serpentine, and yellow limestone, along with red, turquoise, and cobalt blue colored glass.
  — Stacey Leasca, Travel + Leisure, 28 Mar. 2023
• Gang and her team, working with structural engineers at Thornton Tomasetti, inserted a serpentine, origami-like concrete roof that, like a river of light, draws visitors in and through the building’s lofty atrium and toward its galleries.
  — Anna Fixsen, ELLE Decor, 5 May 2023
• The necklace is composed of triangular motifs that reference serpentine scales.
  — Laura Casey, WSJ, 30 May 2023
• The activity recreates the repetitive practice of skating serpentines (three connected circles) and circle eights (two connected circles), school figures that give the works their titles.
  — Briana Miller | , oregonlive, 11 Sep. 2023
• Researchers have studied desert dust for decades, tracking its serpentine trajectory around the globe and trying to understand its environmental impact.
  — Douglas Fox, Discover Magazine, 5 June 2012
• Mermaids almost always appear as half human, half fish (or other aquatic/serpentine animals).
  — Monica Cull, Discover Magazine, 24 July 2023
• One of the softer and less expensive types is serpentine, which is the type of jade used in these rollers.
  — Lauren Manaker, Health, 27 Mar. 2023
• California has the olive-green beauty serpentine--for the moment.
  — Joseph Calamia, Discover Magazine, 14 July 2010
• For Etty, life at Westerbork was an unending serpentine of needs to be fulfilled.
  — Elizabeth Svoboda, Longreads, 30 Apr. 2020
• Every actor’s career follows its own serpentine route to a final bow.
  — Michael Phillips, Chicago Tribune, 30 June 2023
• The rooms are adorned with wood walls, crisp white linens, and pops of color: some suites, for example, have a lime green serpentine couch, whereas others have rugs swirling with Amazonian-like jade, sage, and brown carpet.
  — Elise Taylor, Vogue, 20 Jan. 2022
• Bangkok's main lifeline is the serpentine Chao Phraya River, and along its banks are some of the city's top luxury hotels, oldest neighborhoods, and biggest tourist attractions.
  — Meagan Drillinger, Travel + Leisure, 8 Sep. 2023
• Mélusine, the figure from 14th century French mythology, was a half-woman/half-snake who, when her serpentine self was spied on by her betraying lover, turned into a dragon and took flight.
  — Steve Hochman, SPIN, 28 Mar. 2023
• The dining room area, for example, pairs a serpentine chandelier by Frederik Molenschot with a neon yellow painting by Tishan Hsu.
  — Helena Madden, ELLE Decor, 1 Sep. 2023
• The rocks from 400 meters deep were still permeated with fine serpentine veins, confirming that water had percolated at least that far down.
  — Douglas Fox, Scientific American, 1 July 2021
• The home’s green serpentine marble walls served as an elegant backdrop for conversation, cocktails, and, of course, select pieces from the Fall 2022 Ralph Lauren Home collection.
  — Sean Santiago, ELLE Decor, 14 June 2022
• The abstract pattern includes triangles, squares, circles, and rectangles made of onyx, purple porphyry, green serpentine, and yellow limestone, along with red, turquoise, and cobalt blue colored glass.
  — Stacey Leasca, Travel + Leisure, 28 Mar. 2023
• Gang and her team, working with structural engineers at Thornton Tomasetti, inserted a serpentine, origami-like concrete roof that, like a river of light, draws visitors in and through the building’s lofty atrium and toward its galleries.
  — Anna Fixsen, ELLE Decor, 5 May 2023
• The necklace is composed of triangular motifs that reference serpentine scales.
  — Laura Casey, WSJ, 30 May 2023
• The activity recreates the repetitive practice of skating serpentines (three connected circles) and circle eights (two connected circles), school figures that give the works their titles.
  — Briana Miller | , oregonlive, 11 Sep. 2023

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