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Another word for serpentine

Adjective

  1. Repeatedly curving in alternate directions

    2. See also:

    straight

    repetition

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Another word for serpentine

Modifier
    2. See also:

    twisted

    bent

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Sentence Examples

  • It consisted of a restaurant area, a large serpentine shaped bar and another room off to the side with two pool tables and a jukebox.

  • A more or less continuous band of serpentine belonging to this series forms the principal watershed, although it nowhere rises to any great height.

  • From Bagdad downward, the course of the Tigris is peculiarly serpentine and shifting.

  • Serpentine appears later, and diorite towards the close of the prehistoric ages.

  • In the south and west the sedimentary rocks most largely developed are of ancient, pre-Carboniferous date, interrupted by considerable patches of granite, serpentine and other crystalline rocks.

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