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Recent Examples of sinuous The path that led Romeo Okwara to his new home outside of Detroit is as long and sinuous as the many rivers, lagoons, and estuaries that feed into his native Lagos. Nick Mafi, Architectural Digest, 23 Sep. 2024 The collection paid sartorial homage to historical Art Nouveau, which featured sinuous curves and botanical inspiration. Julia Teti, WWD, 10 Sep. 2024 His sinuous, stately sentences have brought a formal feeling to scenes of cruising; public bathrooms have become versions of the nineteenth-century ballroom, full of their own occult codes, hierarchies, the season’s new beauties. Parul Sehgal, The New Yorker, 9 Sep. 2024 Fish that swallow their prey whole tend to wolf them down headfirst, and for sinuous A. japonica, as the eel’s head and upper body is sliding into a predator’s stomach, its tail will often linger in the esophagus. Mindy Weisberger, CNN, 13 Sep. 2024 See all Example Sentences for sinuous 
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Adjective
  • Making my way to some more winding, enjoyable roads, the pace picked up and the thin-rimmed steering wheel started to soften in my hands, communicating every detail of the road without any of the dullness associated with modern power assist.
    Michael Teo Van Runkle, Forbes, 24 Sep. 2024
  • Another long and winding answer followed — about affordability, regulations, building her own home, the virtues of shop class — before Gluesenkamp Perez finally expressed concern the proposal could merely end up boosting housing costs.
    Mark Z. Barabak, Los Angeles Times, 27 Oct. 2024
Adjective
  • In the strange weather and serpentine melodies of Classic Objects, Jenny Hval walks a labyrinth of memory, through a Carl Theodor Dreyer screening, past Prada Marfa, into the woods.
    Pitchfork, Pitchfork, 1 Oct. 2024
  • The serpentine trip-hop track lives somewhere in the haze between haunting and euphoric, with a warmth and sensuality that permeate the spectral space beneath pinku’s soft, siren-like voice.
    Billboard Staff, Billboard, 4 Oct. 2024
Adjective
  • Lead actor Nathan Meister returns to the role of Henry Oldfield, the sheep-phobic son of a farmer who discovers his twisted older brother has been carrying out dangerous genetic experiences on his livestock, which transform them from docile vegetarians to ruthless, carnivorous killers.
    Melanie Goodfellow, Deadline, 5 Nov. 2024
  • The other two tales — equally twisted takes on Hansel and Gretel and Goldilocks — offer additional cultural insight into the era.
    EW.com, EW.com, 31 Oct. 2024

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“Sinuous.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/sinuous. Accessed 21 Nov. 2024.

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