Example sentences for: serpentine

How can you use “serpentine” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • We know he's going to lop off those serpentine heads, one of which is biting him brazenly in the rear.

  • The serpentine layer, which consists mainly of fibers, had also a decreased level of α-ARD immunoreactivity (Fig.

  • A shiver of excitement strikes the line of people waiting four-breast outside Theodore Roosevelt's front gate, and runs in serpentine reflex along Pennsylvania Avenue as far as Seventeenth Street, before whipping south and dissipating itself over half a mile a way.

  • I'm more inclined to look for the sexpots of supernatural tradition: sirens, vampires, various enchantresses, those green ladies with rotten or serpentine lower bodies--what are they called?--who show up in (for example) Coleridge's "Christobel."

  • Several palatial chambers and corridors in the 18 th century Hôtel Crillon were given over to the operation; they were packed with rows of golden chairs leaving a serpentine passage for the parade, and surrounded by banks of lights and ranks of camerapeople.


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