Some manufacturers may use S-shaped springs -- steel wires bent to resemble a series of sinuous waves -- in place of coil springs in their furniture seats.
Then lifting her arms, her hands making slow arabesques in the air, she stamped her feet and began a series of sinuous turns.
Although the body moves through a series of sinuous curves, the track made by the snake is a set of parallel lines that are roughly perpendicular to the axis of movement.
In serpentine locomotion, in which the body is thrown into a series of sinuous curves, the movements appear identical to those of anguilliform swimming, but the similarity is more apparent than real.
After the body is thrown into a series of tight, sinuous loops, forming a frictional anchor, the head slowly extends forward until the body is nearly straight or begins to slide.
Designed by Make – no strangers to dressing up mindless buildings in novelty outfits – the two cylindrical towers will be connected at certain floors by sinuous metallic bands, supporting a series of "sky gardens" for a chosen few flats.
A phonograph disc, or record, stores a replica of sound waves as a series of undulations in a sinuous groove inscribed on its rotating surface by the stylus.
Just a few minutes later, he nabbed one of his highest-scoring waves of the contest, a speedy wall on which he bent his sinuous 6-foot-3 frame into a series of powerful hacks and floaters and an aerial.
Mr. Waltz admitted to being initially bewildered by Mr. Tarantino's script, a five-chapter behemoth filled with lengthy, sinuous conversations that snake their way through an intricate series of bluffs, reversals and mind games.
Forming a series of cave-like spaces within a sinuous white loop, the Truss Wall House, completed in 1993, performed elaborate feats with concrete long before computer modelling made such curvaceous forms ubiquitous.
