Z-shaped

While Honda and Toyota have attempted some compensatory sleekifying of their minivans—the Honda Odyssey's Z-shaped sill line makes it the Aladdin Sane of kid movers—Nissan has made its minivan challengingly, um, not sleek.

For Your Big-Box Shopping, Drive a Big Box Dan Neil 2011

His Z-shaped scar looked awesome as it pulsed in the artificial light of the hallway.

Molecules Joe Deir 2011

We slipped past a few cocked and shadowed heads lolling on the backs of Naugahyde furniture in the TV room, and then double-timed it through a quick Z-shaped turn on the left.

Excerpt: Huge by James Fuerst 2009

You are inside the chambers of a nautilus … And you never have trouble or look like a gawky idiot, pulling your elegant, Z-shaped chair forward to sit at the table, because chairs and tables are aesthetic things, not things to be used, in the fantasy house.

The Razor Residence by Wallace E. Cunningham 2009

Reuters/China Daily The hotel is next to China Central Television's landmark Z-shaped headquarters, a major prestige project for the city.

Beijing Tower on Fire 2009

The race course was a 15,000,000,000 mile Z-shaped trek within the Alpha Centuri system.

365 tomorrows » 2006 » November : A New Free Flash Fiction SciFi Story Every Day 2006

The race course was a 15,000,000,000 mile Z-shaped trek within the Alpha Centuri system.

365 tomorrows » Gone with the Solar Wind : A New Free Flash Fiction SciFi Story Every Day 2006

A Z-shaped leeper piton went ringing into the mist.

The Wall Jeff Long 2005

The length and depth of the Z-shaped incision that would free his hand and make it useful once more.

A Breath of Snow and Ashes Gabaldon, Diana 2005

It's very similar to other heavy water plants we've seen in areas such as Pakistan and the important facility here is this kind of Z-shaped structure.

CNN Transcript Dec 12, 2002 2002