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1
: a leaf, stipule, or stem modified into a slender spirally coiling sensitive organ serving to attach a climbing plant to its support
2
: something suggestive of a tendril
creeping tendrils of fog
Examples of tendril in a Sentence
A few tendrils of hair framed her face.
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30 June 2026
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29 June 2026
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Jack Crosbie,
Rolling Stone,
17 June 2026
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Frank Racioppi,
Forbes.com,
30 June 2026
The 27-year-old styled her hair in a voluminous updo with braids and curly tendrils framing her glam for the evening.
—
Lara Walsh,
InStyle,
29 June 2026
An arresting sheer dress by the young Turkish British designer Dilara Fındıkoğlu—which uses snaking tendrils of synthetic hair to cover the wearer’s genitals, à la Botticelli’s Venus—towers over an eighteenth-century bronze Venus.
—
Rachel Syme,
New Yorker,
29 June 2026
Plastic comes out of the printer in an almost unrecognizable state, covered in oddly organic-looking tendrils of plastic called supports.
—
Jack Crosbie,
Rolling Stone,
17 June 2026
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“Tendril.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/tendril. Accessed 2 Jul. 2026.
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tendril
noun
ten·dril
ˈten-drəl 
1
: a slender leafless winding stem by which some climbing plants fasten themselves to a support
2
: something that curls like a tendril
tendrils of hair
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