The Collaborative International Dictionary
Sinuous \Sin"u*ous\, a. [L. sinuosus, fr. sinus a bent surface, a curve: cf. F. sinueux. See Sinus.] Bending in and out; of a serpentine or undulating form; winding; crooked. -- Sin"u*ous*ly, adv.
Streaking the ground with sinuous trace.
--Milton.
Gardens bright with sinuous rills.
--Coleridge.
Wiktionary
adv. In a sinuous manner.
Usage examples of "sinuously".
And there were rattlers, their flat and evil heads held lower than those of the longer blacksnakes, but moving just as fast and just as sinuously, swarming with mysterious purpose toward a dark and equally mysterious destination.
She saw Collum and Brandl with their backs to a blank stretch of wall, cornered by the snapping, snarling creatures that crouched sinuously before them.
The vague Morphean images rose like wisps of smoke through my memory, sinuously curling away from me as real smoke will writhe and slither upward on a draft, dissipating with a speed directly related to my determination to form them into solid meaningful pictures.
Karia flicked herself and flew up beside it, while Drek moved sinuously below it.
Watching it work, he wondered uneasily what other invertebrates might be living within the dunes, meandering sinuously beneath his vulnerable backside even as he sat there contemplating the astonishingly swift disappearance of the many-legged worm.
At once, small multilegged robots scuttled forth from the shadows, undulating, wrapping sinuously around him and racing over his skin and clothing with tiny vacuum-cleaner probosci.
That slick was the length of our vessel, and we knew it was only part of a glabrous' dorsal ridge, breaching as the brute came sinuously up to attack our stern.
The four-meter long black caiman on the far bank did not, slipping silently into the water, its dragon's tail cleaving the rippling, mirrored surface as it sinuously advanced to investigate.
Then she sinuously flowed down from the bed, crossed the floor, and jumped up to the sill of the north window.
The snake: a cable twisting sinuously in the weightless condition of hyperspace (a product of Mach's Principle concerning the lack of inertial force upon a single particle in a starless universe), more alive, seemingly, than the man it held to warm, breathing life.
Magnan barked at the screen where Oo-Rilikuk's multi-colored visage nodded blandly against a background of sinuously moving Yalcan dancing-wenches.
On some of the rock ledges sea fans and sea whips waved sinuously in the current.