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Sinuous
Sinuous meaning
Having curves in alternate directions; meandering. | Moving gracefully and in a supple manner. | Morally crooked; shifty.
Example sentences (20)
After heavy rains, they sometimes found baby dragons washed up on rocks nearby: slender and sinuous with blunted snouts, frilled throats and nearly translucent pink skin.
Local artist Dion Hortsmans' sinuous gilded metal tendrils add an otherworldly organicism to the warmly-hued space.
Spend a little more time with these pieces, however, and the viewer might get the distinct sense that there is, in fact, some sort of haunting within the sinuous shadowing and diligent brushwork.
The cushions are made from foam with sinuous springs, making it a comfortable option that doesn't sag.
Jimin’s “Filter,” an album standout, is distinct for its sinuous Latin guitar melody.
Landscape architects restructured the creek bed, which had become “channelized,” and introduced step pools, sinuous curves and a more gentle slope to the banks.
Rather than dominate the front facade with an entrance, reducing the garden space, the architects created a sinuous path of raised concrete garden beds at the core of the development, separating the front apartments from those at the rear.
The clear lines showing the sinuous body of a cat soon emerged.
The roads are sinuous and every turn brings surprises.
After Saarinen’s untimely death in 1961, Roche became the guiding force behind some of the firm’s most iconic projects—including the “soaring, sinuous, sensuous, surreal” (as the AIA Guide to New York City puts it) TWA Terminal at JFK Airport.
I feel a quick chill: the cat’s sinuous tail, or the single column’s mighty symbolism of Calabria’s history?
But there is at least one place where his vision is becoming reality: the sinuous lower Rio Grande Valley, scene of more unauthorized crossings than any other stretch between the Pacific Ocean and the Gulf of Mexico.
As with otariids, it can turn its rear flippers forward and move on all fours; however, its swimming technique is more like that of true seals, relying less on flippers and more on sinuous whole body movements.
Enamels played a large role in technique, while sinuous organic lines are the most recognisable design feature.
Glacial meltwaters eroded a complex of sinuous channels along this margin of the Peak District during this period.
In 1888–89, her brushstrokes transitioned from short, rapid strokes to long, sinuous ones that define form. citation The outer edges of her paintings were often left unfinished, allowing the canvas to show through and increasing the sense of spontaneity.
Jugendstil art includes a variety of different methods, applied by the various individual artists and features the use of hard lines as well as sinuous curves.
Sinuous-crested dunes exposed at low tide in the Cornwallis River near Wolfville, Nova Scotia Ancient channel deposit in the Stellarton Formation ( Pennsylvanian ), Coalburn Pit, near Thorburn, Nova Scotia.
Straight or slightly sinuous sand ridges typically much longer than they are wide are known as linear dunes.
Their swimming power derives from the use of flippers more so than the sinuous whole-body movements typical of phocids and walruses.