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
• The packaging is made of translucent glass, with a fluid and sinuous shape.
  — Sofia Viganò, Vogue, 2 Oct. 2024
• 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
• 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

Last Updated: 19 Dec 2024