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serpentinely
adverb
uk /ˈsɜː.pən.taɪn.li/ us /ˈsɝː.pən.taɪn.li/
in a way that curves and twists like a snake:
The street dancer's body writhed serpentinely in front of the entranced crowd.
The river flows south serpentinely through the hills for nearly 100 miles.
It took a while to sort through the serpentinely arranged tangle of wires to find the one that led to the printer.
A queue of cars and trucks stretched serpentinely from the car park to the motorway.
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases
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arch your back
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bowed
distorted
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flexion
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swirlingly
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tangle
tangled
wrap something around someone/something
wriggle
wristy
writhe
zigzag
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