sinuosity

• "Additional wetlands on Fountain Creek, sinuosity, bank stabilization to armor banks and sedimentation in Pueblo County ... are all areas we plan to attack aggressively as part of our mitigation," Fredell said. —  News/local from www.chieftain.com
• The road wandered among them with a kind of accommodating sinuosity, and there were even cross-streets, and an oil-lamp on a corner, and here and there the small sign of a closed shop, with an indistinctly countrified lettering. —  The Bostonians, Vol. II (of II)
• This length, allowing for the sinuosity of the valley traversed, agrees with the distance between the site of old Bubastis and the present head of the Bitter Lakes. —  History of Egypt From 330 B.C. To the Present Time, Volume 12 (of 12)
• Camille's neck, instead of curving inward at the nape, curves out in a line that unites the head to the shoulders without sinuosity, a most signal characteristic of force. —  Beatrix
• The imagination of a poet or, better still, that of an inventor, could not have found on Bebelle's back the slightest trace of that seductive sinuosity which the vertebrae of all women who are women usually produce. —  Sons of the Soil

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