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sinuously

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What does sinuously mean?

adverb

  1. In a sinuous manner.

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These paths went forward sinuously, sometimes separating one from the other, sometimes intertwining, sometimes combining into one for a short distance.
Stewart Edward WhiteThe Land of FootprintsProject Gutenberg ebook #1378
For a long period there was silence, then of a sudden a soft, stealthy sound behind me caused me to turn suddenly to behold a great many-legged banth creeping sinuously upon me.
Edgar Rice BurroughsThe gods of MarsProject Gutenberg ebook #64
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As I did so, the points of the red slippers which I dreamed that I wore increased in length, curled sinuously upward, twined about my throat and choked the breath from my body!
Sax RohmerThe Insidious Dr. Fu ManchuProject Gutenberg ebook #173
So it was that as Kulonga emerged from the shadow of the jungle a slender coil of rope sped sinuously above him from the lowest branch of a mighty tree directly upon the edge of the fields of Mbonga, and ere the king’s son had taken a half dozen steps into the clearing a quick noose tightened about his neck.
Edgar Rice BurroughsTarzan of the ApesProject Gutenberg ebook #78