Meaning

Having curves in alternate directions; meandering..

Definitions by Sense

1. Having curves in alternate directions; meandering.
2. Moving gracefully and in a supple manner.
3. (figurative) Morally crooked; shifty.

Example Sentences

We followed every bend of the sinuous river.

[W]hen a transverse, or, within certain limits, an oblique impulse, impinges laterally upon a continuous mountain range, two movements of vibration are communicated; the one, a wave transmitted along and in the line of the axis, the other a transverse wave, which causes the axial line to sway laterally, and transmit a quam prox. horizontal transverse wave, along from one end to the other; like the sinuous movement which travels along a long rope when, hanging suspended between two points at the same level, it is jerked suddenly at one end, transversely to its length.

[A] peculiar luminous and sinuous marking appeared on the unillumined half of the inner planet, and almost simultaneously a faint dark mark of a similar sinuous character was detected upon a photograph of the Martian disc.

The way through the wood was shorter, but it was also sinuous. He missed his way, and, as a direct consequence, missed his train.

My own apprehension rose again to a superlative pitch as we swept down from St. Neots at all but 110 m.p.h. towards those sinuous curves round the bank of the Ouse near Offord, and were almost on to them before we suddenly braked.

This is the perfect climbing tree: wrought by two centuries of good London living, its sinuous spread presents any number of routes into the canopy.

We were entranced by her sinuous dance.

Once a dark, clumsy tapir stared at us from a gap in the bushes, and then lumbered away through the forest; once, too, the yellow, sinuous form of a great puma whisked amid the brushwood, and its green, baleful eyes glared hatred at us over its tawny shoulder.

Word Forms

• more sinuous
• most sinuous

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