| 单词 | sinuously |
| 例句 | Alice seemed to find nothing unusual in our embrace; she walked — almost danced, her movements were so graceful — to the center of the room, where she folded herself sinuously onto the floor. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z It moved slowly, sinuously, its low-slung body sliding lazily over the ground. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z Its horns thinned, stretching longer to coil spiral at the ends, as sinuously as ink poured into water. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z He sat sinuously, with deliberately unhurried movements, till our faces were on the same level, just a foot apart. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z There was nothing she could not describe: the gentle pad of a maniac’s tread moving sinuously along the drive, keeping to the verge to muffle his approach. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z There was a nasty hissing noise as Filch swelled with fury; Mrs. Norris had arrived, unseen, and was twisting herself sinuously around Filch’s skinny ankles. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z Inside him the thick dark liquid slid sinuously through his veins. Messenger 2004-04-26T00:00:00Z The artists were asked to respond to Titian's great paintings of the Diana and Actaeon myth – themselves visualisations of episodes from Ovid's endlessly unwinding, sinuously inventive poem Metamorphoses. Chris Ofili paints backdrop for ballet chief's final bow 2012-07-06T11:27:31Z Ms. Vishneva was in fine form in that solo part, with her sinuously expressive long arms, but there is little to the Béjart work here besides a passing frisson. Critic’s Notebook: ‘Iolanta’ at the New Mariinsky II in Russia 2013-05-05T19:20:13Z Inspired by the fanciful cutouts and sinuously sculpted furniture of Mr. Chaimowicz, a London-based artist, young visitors will use Model Magic clay to create their own pieces of home décor. 9 Things to Do With Your Kids in N.Y.C. This Weekend 2018-07-05T04:00:00Z In the middle of Shelley Washington’s sinuously grooving “Black Mary” for baritone saxophone were charming little staccato folk-ish passages. The Bang on a Can Marathon, Still Lovably Scruffy Online 2020-05-04T04:00:00Z Greenwell, whose 2016 “What Belongs to You” established a new bar for literary fiction with its sinuously elegant prose, returns with a set of stunning vignettes about a young gay man’s experiences in Sofia, Bulgaria. The 10 books to read in January 2019-12-31T05:00:00Z A surrogate for both geometric abstraction and men, this form is often paired here with a sinuously Surrealist lock of blond hair and red lips. Art Review: Following the Dots Around the City 2010-09-23T21:45:00Z In the few performances shown, the Stones are in full, astounding flower: Mr. Jagger still moves as sinuously as ever; Mr. Richards still coaxes rock’s most expressive yawps and howls from his guitar. Review: ‘The Rolling Stones Olé, Olé, Olé!’ Captures Tour Euphoria in Latin America 2016-09-29T04:00:00Z Rhine River bubbles percolate up as the Rhinemaidens float sinuously in the air. Arts & Leisure Preview: The Valhalla Machine 2010-09-17T16:10:00Z A dancer is stationed in front of each painting, sinuously twisting and bending in the Brooklyn-born street dance style called flex. A Work of Mourning Comes to New York, With No Rothkos in Sight 2022-09-26T04:00:00Z Somerset Maugham's seldom-read The Gentleman in the Parlour: A Record of a Journey from Rangoon to Haiphong is a quick, interesting and, above all, sinuously written travelogue of the author's time in the region. The best summer reads ? and where to read them 2011-07-15T13:15:01Z Mr. Wheeldon incorporates into the mix stylized Egyptian profile gestures, flexed feet at odd moments, shoulder stands and sinuously undulating upper bodies. Review: An American in London (Bernstein, That Is) 2018-03-16T04:00:00Z Tree branches trail sinuously from shoulder to neck. East Asian sculptors reshape tradition 2015-11-06T05:00:00Z Her voice can be smoky or steely, righteously firm or sinuously jazzy. Allison Russell Faces Her Past in Song 2021-05-13T04:00:00Z But don’t worry: Although they may sometimes move sinuously, they’re entirely human, and just one of three arts ensembles participating in this free festival on Saturday. 8 Things to Do With Your Kids in N.Y.C. This Weekend 2018-07-26T04:00:00Z And there is Quvianaqtuk Pudlat, a gifted late bloomer who worked as a water truck driver and a sport hunting guide before moving to drawings of Sandhill and Whooping cranes sinuously flowing across the page. Making Art on Top of the World 2022-06-01T04:00:00Z Its casual majesty is accentuated by a trio of buds whose impossibly thin stems twist sinuously. Group show at Kayne Griffin Corcoran delivers beauty with an occasional bite 2016-04-16T04:00:00Z Hollowell’s modestly scaled paintings are all color variations on the same form: a tiny, sinuously curved central nodule from which thick, interlocking lines in bright gradations emerge. What is the 'women's aesthetic'? The gallery show '3 Women' offers some answers 2016-08-17T04:00:00Z The other day, drawings and photographs of sinuously draped daytime dresses were strewn across a table, juxtaposed against snapshots of vintage streetwear. Countdown to Fashion Week: At Veronica Beard, Meeting in the Middle 2013-08-07T20:40:05Z The play also requires two performers who can act subtly, dance sinuously and explore the most unsavory sides of their natures, performance after performance. Theater Review: ‘Stockholm,’ by Bryony Lavery, Dissects a Marriage 2014-03-13T02:00:01Z In some they move sinuously down the assemblage, and in others they offer contrasting shapes. Local artists branch out from trees theme at Jeffrey Moose 2014-03-20T21:11:49Z Not all the solo work rang as confidently or sinuously as Price's or Bersamina's. Seattle Pro Musica's 'Nowell' is pure vocal beauty 2010-12-16T21:52:11Z Each dancer moves with intriguing, individuating specificity: this one shaking, that one twitching sinuously or twisting like the head of a sprinkler. Review: The Inescapable Vibrations of ‘Violet’ 2022-09-25T04:00:00Z One spectacular cinema-centric dream sequence unites a filmmaker’s fears and desires, artistic joys and intimate terrors in one sinuously deft gesture. “Mia Madre”: Nanni Moretti’s Cinematic Shapeshifting 2016-08-28T04:00:00Z Interspersed with those works are small, black-topped tables that bear flat, glazed, multicolored ceramic slabs cut in sinuously contoured shapes and often inset with irregular polygons of similar or contrasting patterns. Dana Schutz’s Paintings Wring Beauty from Worldwide Calamity 2019-01-21T05:00:00Z A bass flute, representing the Pied Piper, sinuously wraps itself around both voices. How the Composer George Benjamin Finally Found His Voice 2018-09-10T04:00:00Z Then they walked in groups of three or four along a popular mountain trail that climbs sinuously and persistently. For Exercise, Nothing Like the Great Outdoors 2017-06-28T04:00:00Z A long plastic tube, cerulean blue, twisted sinuously around a series of white disks, like a python coiled around a skewer of marshmallows. The Science of Identity and Difference 2016-05-02T04:00:00Z In his sinuously argued style, he dismisses the notion that Chinese people were culturally incapable of embracing constitutionalism: On China’s Constitution Day, Book on Constitutionalism Largely Disappears 2015-12-04T05:00:00Z The mentholated tobacco flavor rolled sinuously over my tongue, hit the back of my throat in an unctuously familiar cloud, and rushed through my capillaries, buzzing along my dormant nicotine receptors. E-Cigarettes: A $1.5 Billion Industry Braces for FDA Regulation 2014-02-06T10:47:53Z Inside it works well, with the steep walls of seating adding to the drama provided by the sinuously undulating roof of the core structure. These Knock-Down, Shrinkable Games 2012-07-24T21:16:34Z In the increasing day I saw the little river wind sinuously through the fields, and the country stretched flat before me, with slender trees marked out against the sky. The Making of a Saint 2012-03-16T02:00:25.243Z And now occurred a grisly thing, for before his horrified eyes his enemy's body suddenly lengthened and changed into a monstrous, writhing serpent, wriggling sinuously toward him. The Lash 2011-12-20T03:00:32.457Z Her brows now moved sinuously, and now relaxed as Isolde sang of her longing and quenched the torch for a signal to her lover. What Will People Say? A novel 2011-12-17T03:00:18.490Z I almost thought that one of Bill's remarkable ears was elongating itself until it coiled sinuously towards the wall, but this, no doubt, was illusion. The City in the Clouds 2011-08-31T02:01:31.807Z He crouched flat, then slid forward sinuously, paw after paw. Lives of the Fur Folk 2011-08-20T02:00:13.820Z In approaching our fishing grounds we did not mind going sinuously and snake-like through the wet meadows, and as I have said, our nets were rarely kept at home. The Confessions of a Poacher 2011-08-05T02:00:44.470Z His lips had shaped themselves into a curse, his brow had darkened, when his hosts suddenly appeared, emerging from a creek which wound sinuously through the marshy level. Nevermore 2011-07-08T02:00:23.973Z There he saw an immense python climbing sinuously and with deliberation into a large thorn-tree. By Veldt and Kopje 2011-06-15T02:00:20.067Z But presently the Ginseng root became lighter in colour and more supple, yielding to his fingers, growing ivory pale, sinuously limber in a newer and more delicate symmetry. The Slayer Of souls 2011-06-01T02:00:26.487Z I slipped easily between the bars and followed the path, now a cow-path winding sinuously about the trunks of sturdy maples, until it brought me under the shadow of the great, green arms. Neighbours 2011-03-05T03:00:27.277Z Presently a rift in the wall of vapour enabled both pilot and observer to discern a flat, greyish expanse of sand through which several small channels wound sinuously. Billy Barcroft, R.N.A.S. A story of the Great War 2011-02-24T03:01:02.917Z I directed it towards the opposite side of the ravine, upon the dark head of that huge caterpillar sinuously descending the cliff. The Guerilla Chief And other Tales 2011-02-10T03:00:53.627Z I asked, as we came out together, pointing to a hill across the railroad up which the pike wound sinuously. A Maid of the Kentucky Hills 2011-02-04T03:00:15.877Z Beelzebub, scampering sinuously from clump to clump of the long grass, flattened himself to a shadow as the owl launched silently from the limb, legs pointing downward and curved talons rigid. Lost Farm Camp 2011-01-23T03:00:16.437Z A wave of cold started, pricking somewhere in my head, and undulated sinuously through me, down to my feet. The Jonathan Papers She was sinuously slender, and there was a splendid hint of gallantry in the unconscious sweep of her shoulders. The Key to Yesterday The trail wound sinuously, rising from benchland to benchland, but the boy stuck to it, for he knew that cattle invariably choose the easiest way. The Land of Strong Men Kinnison emerged sinuously and snaked his way to a row of blanket covered forms. Triplanetary The big cat rubbed sinuously against a table leg, circled the room, and crouched beside the stove again. Lost Farm Camp 2011-01-23T03:00:16.437Z On the flanks of the flashing host he dived, swimming sinuously and with extraordinary swiftness like a seal. The Haunters of the Silences A Book of Animal Life "How do you come to know this Wolff?" he asked, looking after the man, who was winding his way sinuously in and out among the crowd. Gertrude's Marriage The river winds sinuously, doubling back upon itself interminably, seeking first one, and then another, point of the compass, a veritable despair for railroad builders whose companion word for "results" must be "economy." In the Oregon Country Out-Doors in Oregon, Washington, and California Together with some Legendary Lore, and Glimpses of the Modern West in the Making A moment later the bellboy returned, accompanied by a spare but sinuously built man of medium height. Frontier Boys in the South Seas Such wide stretches of country, as the road crept along the mountain-brow, or curved sinuously down to the far valley! The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 15, No. 90, April, 1865 His long, loose-jointed body twisted sinuously as he moved—the only living creature to be seen up and down the level desolation of those bleak shores. The Haunters of the Silences A Book of Animal Life From among the dry bushes overgrowing the bed of the "khor," a big snake emerged and, gliding sinuously with the rapidity of lightning among the fragments of rocks, escaped to some hiding-place known to itself. In Desert and Wilderness Far overhead extended, narrow and sinuously, a blue ribbon, the only glimpse of the celestial world that the frowning granite walls permitted to be seen. The Unknown Life of Jesus Christ The Original Text of Nicolas Notovitch's 1887 Discovery Long, shining weeds, red, yellow, amber, purple, and olive, waved sinuously among the weed-like sea-anemones which outshone them in colored sheen. Kings in Exile A narrow path ran through it, curving sinuously, as a path made by chance will. The Love Story of Abner Stone Two lines of parapets, for there are really very few trenches, wind sinuously over the country from the sea to the Alps. "The Red Watch" With the First Canadian Division in Flanders “For you, boy,” she said, slipping close to him, sinuously, whispering, knowing the “she” he had mentioned must be Rosalind Benham. 'Firebrand' Trevison Lanterns had been hung in front of the engine, and as it crawled sinuously along it looked like some huge monster with myriad eyes. Studies in love and in terror The others in serpent form move sinuously back to the Temple of Hecate. Saronia A Romance of Ancient Ephesus Less wary, he meandered sinuously until he made his way close to Nawin who was thinking: "Those foreigners in the tuk- tuk must be in Laos by now—going to Vientiane as I am." An Apostate: Nawin of Thais Presently over the top of the ridge, at the gap wherein had first appeared the form of the leaping buck, a low, dark shape came, moving sinuously and with deadly swiftness. The Watchers of the Trails A Book of Animal Life In his versification he attained new and alluring harmonies; he escaped from the rhythmical uniformity of eighteenth-century verse, gliding sinuously from line to line and from strophe to strophe. A History of French Literature Short Histories of the Literatures of the World: II. Even the runners, sinuously encroaching upon the sidewalk, were deeply virescent. Greener Than You Think Her pulses leaped to the throbbing notes, and she flung herself sinuously into the measures of the tango, snapping her fingers in lieu of castanets. The Fifth Ace An enormously fat woman came in, moving somehow sinuously in spite of her bulk. Talents, Incorporated But when he moved, and they saw the rope trail sinuously behind him through the scanty grass, they were almost paralyzed with panic. The Watchers of the Trails A Book of Animal Life The shadows above him took on weird shapes; grinning faces with tangled gray locks; long snakelike bodies, and tails of red and yellow light twined and writhed sinuously about the beautiful face of a girl. The Promise A Tale of the Great Northwest You read it in the green margin glistening against the snow line sinuously left along the banks. Lines in Pleasant Places Being the Aftermath of an Old Angler And one night, when on his tower watching the miraculous star, Balthasar, casting his eyes towards earth, saw along black line sinuously curving over the distant sands of the desert like an army of ants. Balthasar and Other Works - 1909 And, as she spoke, her arms crept sinuously about the young man's stiff figure, and she drew him, by degrees, to the couch, at her side. The Genius A long tongue of bluish-grey smoke licked the air, coiling sinuously upward from amid cigar ends and ashes. The Sins of Séverac Bablon Slowly and sinuously, like a serpent stealing upon his prey, the fetish-man or witch-doctor advanced until he stood within a yard of his intended victim, with the fatal wand still pointing straight at Smellie’s breast. The Congo Rovers A Story of the Slave Squadron Matthews looked down as from the prow of a ship into the tumbled country below him, through which a river flashed sinuously toward the faraway haze of the plains. The Best Short Stories of 1917 and the Yearbook of the American Short Story He moved swiftly, almost sinuously to the bed, and gripped the younger man by his uninjured arm. The White Desert It soared through the air like a thing of life, twisting as gracefully and sinuously as a serpent. Ted Strong in Montana With Lariat and Spur Harryman noticed that the boy stared at Parrington for a moment as if startled; but he instantly resumed his Mongolian expression of absolute innocence, and with his customary grin slipped sinuously through the door. Banzai! by Parabellum The great green and gold serpent with the brilliant electric eyes fought its way sinuously into the throat of the wet and riotous night on its first stage of over two hundred miles. Golden Stories A Selection of the Best Fiction by the Foremost Writers There was Mrs. Gladys Doolittle Batt, a grass one—Batt being represented as a vanishing point—President of the National Eugenic and Purity League; tall, gnarled, sinuously powerful, and prone to emotional attacks. Police!!! Her body swayed towards him sinuously from hips obstinately immobile, weighted, literally, with her unshakable determination to sit on. The Helpmate He wound sinuously out of the barkeep's reach, however, with pup-wise discrimination. Bruvver Jim's Baby The cowboys started them westward slowly, for trail cattle do not travel fast, urging them on with voice and quirt until the line stretched out into a sinuously weaving band a mile long. Square Deal Sanderson Her head was forced forward, the long neck curved sinuously like a vulture's. The Yoke A Romance of the Days when the Lord Redeemed the Children of Israel from the Bondage of Egypt The argument works up quietly—at once tensely and sinuously, but very quietly—to conviction. On The Art of Reading Joyous, she felt the need of physical expression; and her body began to sway sinuously, to glide and turn and twist about the room. The Ragged Edge All night she trailed sinuously over the peaceful sea, and as the cold dawn was breaking she slid past the south end of Lundy Island with a freshening breeze at her stern. Looking Seaward Again He threw it viciously from him after removing it, so that it flew over the top of the partition and swished sinuously upon the floor of the kitchen. Square Deal Sanderson The birches which climbed the slope to it wound away sinuously, a black wall on either hand, and the prairie lying gray and still stretched back into the silence in front of him. Winston of the Prairie Many sinuously wound their way out to the promenade. Flames By a violent but vain effort to withdraw the blade the wound was enlarged; a rill of blood escaped, running sinuously down into the deranged clothing. The Collected Works of Ambrose Bierce — Volume 2: In the Midst of Life: Tales of Soldiers and Civilians She seemed to float sinuously and voluptuously immersed in it, as in tepid water lit with sunshine. The Roll-Call He stood erect and stretched his great frame, the muscles of his arms gliding sinuously beneath his tanned skin as he bent his clenched fists behind his head. Son of Tarzan Through the luxuriant, tangled vegetation of the Stygian jungle night a great lithe body made its way sinuously and in utter silence upon its soft padded feet. Beasts of Tarzan Ursula, in a gown that displayed the last possible—many of the homelier women said impossible—inch of her beautiful shoulders, came strolling sinuously in and seated herself on the arm of the divan. The Grain of Dust There were many trees; the place was beautiful; well-kept roads and walks led sinuously and invitingly underneath the shade. The Octopus : A story of California As I did so, the points of the red slippers which I dreamed that I wore increased in length, curled sinuously upward, twined about my throat and choked the breath from my body! The Insidious Dr. Fu Manchu Further up the bluff a striped snake gave her a shivery surprise before he glided sinuously away under a sagebush. Chip, of the Flying U And, having fallen, it was no longer black, but blue—pale day-blue—and was moving sinuously, crawling with swift blue ripplings to and fro. Glimpses of Unfamiliar Japan Second Series Crossing the fingers of her upraised hands, she bent her whole body forward, so that she appeared more sinuously slender than ever, and the curve of her body almost resembled a white ring. The Created Legend Then he returned to his crouch and circled sinuously about the ring with the amiable intention of showing the crowd, payers and deadheads alike, what real footwork was. The Adventures of Sally In this "devil-devil" country it is barely the width of the foot, and it wanders sinuously like the trail of a lazy snake. Tropic Days "Mon Dieu, I say you are a fool--and a brave man," said Croisset, and his whip twisted sinuously in mid-air and cracked in sharp command over the yellow backs of the huskies. The Danger Trail All around you are sounds of crawling, dull echoes of dropping; the thick growths far up waver in the breathless air as if something were moving sinuously through them. Two Years in the French West Indies She was sinuously slender, like a white serpent. The Created Legend Miss Warren never walked nor glided nor swayed sinuously as languorous Southern society belles are supposed to do; she romped and bounced, and she was chattering amiably at this moment. The Net She swung her body over, sinuously, so that she faced him, slender legs half stretched. A Fool There Was Then she swung it slowly backward, twisting her body sinuously to one side. West Wind Drift The team twisted sinuously and swiftly in the trail as he sped over the edge of the mountain. The Honor of the Big Snows Faintly against the dense gray of the shadowy floor. he could see thick ropelike forms twisting sinuously to and fro, as if exploring their new quarters or seeking exit. Black Caesar's Clan : a Florida Mystery Story The four alarming objects get under way, cloud-shape, in the trench that unwinds itself sinuously before them like a blind alley, unsafe, unlighted, and unpaved. Under Fire: the story of a squad The big cat had finished the milk and was rubbing its whiskered cheek sinuously against her skirt. Under Western Eyes And so she swayed and swayed with sinuously curving limbs while the drums throbbed out faster with ever-shortening beats, with now and then a clash of brazen cymbals that was torture to overwrought nerves. Okewood of the Secret Service When they crawled sinuously out upon the welcome level, the hill loomed ghostly and black behind them. Rowdy of the Cross L But the larches were noisy and cried out with wild voices, and the flame of the fire grew blue and swirled about in the draught sinuously, so that a chill crept upon the two. The Shape of Fear These paths went forward sinuously, sometimes separating one from the other, sometimes intertwining, sometimes combining into one for a short distance. The Land of Footprints The ground was irregular, and the path wound sinuously about mounds of rubbish; so that often the guiding light was lost, and they stumbled blindly among nondescript litter, which apparently represented the accumulation of centuries. Dope |
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