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Recent Examples of sinuous Durability is built-in, thanks to a solid wood frame and a supportive sinuous spring seat. Elizabeth Fogarty, Better Homes & Gardens, 17 Sep. 2025 Known as Miami Beach’s Billionaire’s Row, North Bay Road is a sinuous, four-mile stretch of pavement where A-list homeowners include Shakira, Michael Bay, and Barry Gibb. Tori Latham, Robb Report, 16 Sep. 2025 Intoxicated by the attention—and the presence of the wannabe tragedienne Gloria (a sinuous, Kurt Weill–crooning Greta Lee)—Saxberger nevertheless must reckon with the authenticity of this newfound circle of aspirants. Jill Goldsmith, Deadline, 5 Aug. 2025 Dynamic cinematographer Seiple’s visuals are loaded with rich textures and sinuous movement. David Rooney, HollywoodReporter, 5 Aug. 2025 See All Example Sentences for sinuous
Recent Examples of Synonyms for sinuous
Adjective
  • According to archaeologists, these ancient farmers piled up stones and soil to form a body, pincers, and a curved tail with a stinger.
    Maria Mocerino, Interesting Engineering, 11 Oct. 2025
  • Umbra’s Scandi-style pieces with curved edges—bookshelves, side tables—are often designated as Amazon’s Choice picks.
    Yelena Moroz Alpert, Architectural Digest, 10 Oct. 2025
Adjective
  • Thake took a long and winding trip down the memories of South Yorkshire football, a path which eventually led him to the living room of a shy, almost reclusive Rotherham man called Terry Moran.
    Nick Miller, New York Times, 30 Sep. 2025
  • The Didi and Gogo that Sparks and Shannon created were full of blood and bile, real people with — no matter how obscured in its details by time and circumstance — a long and winding relationship.
    Sara Holdren, Vulture, 29 Sep. 2025
Adjective
  • Natural light pours in from both sides of the slender, serpentine structure.
    Elizabeth Brownfield, Forbes.com, 31 Aug. 2025
  • The system offers a new glimpse into deep-sea serpentinization—a process in which iron- and magnesium-rich rocks chemically react with water to form serpentine minerals and release hydrogen.
    Prabhat Ranjan Mishra, Interesting Engineering, 17 Aug. 2025
Adjective
  • Cinematic vampirism has also taken many forms over the years, including gothic horror classics like Dracula (1931), gnarly superhero fare like Blade (1998), and twisted love stories like the Twilight Saga.
    Declan Gallagher, Entertainment Weekly, 7 Oct. 2025
  • The Sun’s magnetic field lines can be very twisted, and the solar wind and coronal mass ejections deform and drag them outward from the Sun.
    Samuel Badman, The Conversation, 6 Oct. 2025

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“Sinuous.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/sinuous. Accessed 12 Oct. 2025.

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