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Example sentences for "zigzag"

Lexicographically close words:
zie; ziehen; zieht; ziers; ziggurat; zigzagged; zigzagging; zigzags; zij; zijn
  1. The celebrated zigzag up the Coryarich must not be passed over.

  2. Lately separated from 57, because young have white down instead of gray; adult has no zigzag lines; f.

  3. The common Hotel Barber was ushered in to me; but at first view you noticed in his polygonal zigzag visage, more of a man that would finally go mad, than of one growing wiser.

  4. You see the whole nodus of the matter: I whisked away zigzag among the booths as fast as possible, from the claws of this rude Tosspot; yet he still hobbled after me.

  5. Landed them four stories high and dry in a strictly modern apartment of three dark, square bedrooms, a square dining-room ventilated by an airshaft, and a square pocket of a kitchen that looked out upon a zigzag of fire-escape.

  6. Fire-escapes ran zigzag down the meanest of them.

  7. Austrians the chapel on the San Marco ridge which stands on the ridge above the zigzag track.

  8. It climbs the mountain by zigzag movements, like a letter Z, the engine sometimes hauling its burden, and sometimes pushing the train.

  9. So narrow as just to allow two mules to pass as they meet, the zigzag path is cut out of the solid rock, and covered with earth and stones to prevent our feet from slipping.

  10. And why does he strain his sight in vain to see the zigzag road up the steep mountain-side?

  11. At length the great ascent was to be made, and for two hours we toiled up a steep zigzag pass.

  12. The zigzag path to descend to the lake was so steep and dangerous that we were forced to leave our oxen with a guide, who was to take them to Magungo and wait for our arrival.

  13. Occasionally there was a zigzag explosion in the cloud immediately below, the thunder sounding like a feu-de-joie of a rifle-corps.

  14. Above and behind this arch was going on the most terrific thunder; but no zigzag lightning was perceptible, only bright flashes, like explosions of “Roman candles” in fireworks.

  15. He grinds divinity of other days Down into modern use; transforms old print To zigzag manuscript, and cheats the eyes Of gall'ry critics by a thousand arts.

  16. He grinds divinity of other days Down into modern use; transforms old print To zigzag manuscript, and cheats the eyes Of gallery critics by a thousand arts.

  17. As the train claws its way downwards by slant and zigzag along its face, a majestic panorama breaks upon the view.

  18. Below me a zigzag path led down by long descents to the water's edge, and on an open meadow a row of tents and grass houses had already been set up.

  19. Large water jar, with ancient zigzag decoration, referring to the four wombs of earth and the darts with which they were broken open for the liberation and birth of mankind.

  20. Head-dresses, segments of a circle of basketware, with zigzag sticks protruding from the edge to represent lightning.

  21. Outside of this is secured a zigzag ring of cornhusks.

  22. Are zigzag sticks or wands, variously painted green, yellow, red; are-carried in the hands in dances.

  23. A zigzag path has been cut up the face of the cliff, but it is so steep and narrow that carriages cannot pass over it, and it is with much exertion and heavy panting that it can be climbed by man or beast.

  24. The path went zigzag and was very steep; the Siberian pines swayed their boughs in his face; stones that lay in his path, unseen in the gloom, made him stumble.

  25. The author remembers nothing more remarkable of the same character, unless it may be portions of the zigzag railway of the Blue Mountains in Australia, and some grades among the foothills of the Himalayan range in India.

  26. Long burro trains block the roadway, and others are seen winding down the zigzag paths of the overhanging declivities.

  27. The zigzag course was difficult for me to follow, and I was led to wonder if this mode of locomotion were not advantageous to the mice in eluding animals that would do them harm.

  28. In rapid progression jumping mice move by a series of zigzag hops.

  29. A stony, zigzag pathway excoriates the green mountain with its whitish track.

  30. You have to clamber over pointed rocks, jump from point to point, balance yourself along narrow ledges, climb zigzag up the scarped slopes covered with rolling stones.

  31. Thus, in the coal-field near Mons, in Belgium, these zigzag bendings are repeated four or five times, in the manner represented in fig.

  32. In doing this the plate must be folded now to the front, then to the back, so that on drawing it out it opens in a zigzag fashion.

  33. When perfectly dry, the material is taken from the stretcher, the edges accurately trimmed, and the map folded upon the cross lines into one long strip, and then this strip is folded over in zigzag fashion to the given size.

  34. Many of the designs are edged with narrow zigzag borders of the split quills in natural colors carefully matched and lapped in very exact fashion.

  35. The edge of the shirt is finished in very civilized fashion, with ermine tails, each pendant, banded with blue quills, at alternating heights, making a shining zigzag of blue along the fringe.

  36. He stared hard at the road ahead, which to his excited fancy seemed to consist of a zigzag course as crooked as any wriggling snake he had ever watched.

  37. Only for that zigzag motion, which consumed more or less time, Giraffe might have found it a much more difficult thing to catch up with the runaway.

  38. Leaving the zigzag course that had been traced by the smugglers, and was now followed by the fugitive, the pursuer ran in a more direct line for the well.

  39. They scampered along the cliff to the zigzag path.


  40. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "zigzag" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.