How to Use sinuous in a Sentence

sinuous

adjective

• She moved with sinuous grace.
• Kate chose a sinuous slipdress trimmed in lace and topped with sheer pink sleeves that draped to the floor.
  — Halie Lesavage, Harper's BAZAAR, 2 May 2023
• That extra truckload of weight does not hold back the M50 when the road turns from straight to sinuous.
  — Dan Edmunds, Car and Driver, 1 Mar. 2022
• At night, the forests crawl with sinuous shapes that glow with an eerie greenish-blue colour.
  — Ed Yong, Discover Magazine, 26 Sep. 2011
• The screen turns scarlet and sinuous, and begins to throb.
  — Amanda Petrusich, The New Yorker, 25 Sep. 2023
• Up close, the birds are elegant and sinuous, their plumage faint shades of gray, white and tan.
  — Lindsey Botts, The Arizona Republic, 11 Feb. 2022
• The colors are brighter, the lines more sinuous yet sharper.
  — Justin Davidson, Vulture, 8 Oct. 2022
• In this case, the song sounds like pattern of loud gunshots, not the sinuous, haunting melodies of the humpback.
  — Jason Daley, Smithsonian, 24 June 2019
• Trunk Road — once a sinuous road connecting farms — is now a broad two-lane artery in the southern part of the borough.
  — Zaz Hollander, Alaska Dispatch News, 9 Aug. 2017
• After a sinuous drive, Jim's Steak House jumped out as a jewel on the Cuyahoga.
  — Marc Bona, cleveland, 17 May 2020
• But among the rubble was a wall and a pipe grid that had melted into a sinuous, twisting form.
  — Gia Kourlas, New York Times, 20 Dec. 2022
• On one side of the body, [there is] a sinuous line with a triangular head, which could be described as a snake.
  — Kiona N. Smith, Ars Technica, 26 Sep. 2019
• Throughout, the dancer Abel Rojo, striking and sinuous, slipped out of the group clutching his head or hinging down to the floor.
  — Gia Kourlas, New York Times, 18 Jan. 2018
• The Giselle, with its sinuous frame that comes in the form of a sofa or swivel, also has the same durable surface on offer.
  — Robb Report Studio, Robb Report, 24 May 2023
• Now, highways have straightaways, and not even the most sinuous snaking road has constant curves.
  — Ezra Dyer, Popular Mechanics, 16 Nov. 2018
• There, the border runs more than 1,200 miles along the sinuous course of the Rio Grande, and nearly all of the land where the government needs to build is privately owned.
  — Author: Josh Dawsey, Nick Miroff, Anchorage Daily News, 26 Nov. 2019
• The hull showcases clean, sinuous lines and an eye-catching strip of light that stretches from bow to stern.
  — Rachel Cormack, Robb Report, 13 Oct. 2023
• That top is removable, not folding, as the sinuous shape of the Valkyrie left no room for a mechanism.
  — Mike Duff, Car and Driver, 12 Aug. 2021
• The children seem to have scooped up clay-rich mud from the floor and smeared it on a stalagmite against the far wall, then drew curved, sinuous shapes in the wet clay with their fingers.
  — Kiona N. Smith, Ars Technica, 29 May 2019
• These sinuous candlesticks add a sleek touch to any space.
  — Isiah Magsino, Robb Report, 12 Nov. 2021
• Other times, the wobbles grow large, with troughs and ridges that stretch down near the equator and far up toward the pole, like a snake bending its sinuous body.
  — Alejandra Borunda, National Geographic, 29 Sep. 2020
• Irons’s Scar possessed a blush of camp and sinuous smoothness to go along with his Machiavellian ways.
  — Alex Abad-Santos, Vox, 17 July 2019
• Long, sinuous trail systems seem to start at the end of every neighborhood cul de sac.
  — Graham Averill, Outside Online, 14 Nov. 2022
• The welcome return made the set’s sinuous bass and dark, layered melodies something to be savored.
  — Andrea Domanick, Billboard, 3 Oct. 2019
• Imagine a San Diego sunset and its sinuous curves, as shades of orange meet yellows and reds.
  — Cynthia Zanone, sandiegouniontribune.com, 26 Apr. 2017
• Curving through this open space are a sinuous three-point staircase and catwalk.
  — Judy Rose, Detroit Free Press, 12 Sep. 2020
• But this sinuous structure snakes amid large buildings of varied scales, so there’s nothing close to a full-body view.
  — John King, SFChronicle.com, 26 Aug. 2019
• That area outside Boulder in Kane and Garfield counties is marked by sinuous slot canyons and sandstone plateaus.
  — Lee Davidson, The Salt Lake Tribune, 14 Oct. 2020
• Heretic keeps you guessing, obscuring its plot twists and holding back Reed's sinuous motives and master plan.
  — Maureen Lee Lenker, EW.com, 10 Sep. 2024
• The wavy, sinuous forms that appear in O’Keeffe’s contemporaneous abstractions are confined only to the sky here, where rows of clouds threaten to cover the moon.
  — Alex Greenberger, ARTnews.com, 12 Sep. 2024

Last Updated: 13 Nov 2024