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• I walked down the zigzagging path.From the entry zigzagging
• She concluded that the development of zigzag HSB in the hyainailourines correlates with ossiphagy.2015 September 24, “A New Large Hyainailourine from the Bartonian of Europe and Its Bearings on the Evolution and Ecology of Massive…. From the entry ossiphagy
• Hàn decoration is rich in geometric motifs, such as the zigzag, bands and lozenges.2012, C[harles] A[lfred] S[peed] Williams, Chinese Symbolism & Art Motifs: A Comprehensive Handbook on Symbolism in Chinese Art Through…. From the entry Hàn
• (Santa) This dadburn G.P.S. is zigzagging me all over the planet!!!2010 December 24, Tom Armstrong, Marvin (comic). From the entry dadburn
• She was especially excited about the silverish trousers with the zigzag zippers.2007 May 27, Jerome E. Copulsky, “In the Dressing Room, Relationships Laid Bare”, in New York Times. From the entry silverish
• To rip out serger stitches, you'll need to combine the techniques for ripping straight and zigzag stitches.2002, Sew Basic: 34 Essential Skills for Sewing with Confidence, page 69. From the entry rip out
• The notes zigzag in his pieces and discombobulate the ear, just as in 12-tone works.1999 December 13, Anthony Tommasini, “MUSIC REVIEW; Plenty Of Zigzags, But Hold The Angst”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New…. From the entry discombobulate
• We led the horses along an animal pad that zigzagged down the one accessible descent.1937, Ion L. Idriess, Over the Range, Sydney: Angus and Robertson, published 1947, page 79. From the entry pad
• Zigzag your way to an even better place.2015 October 6, Karen Salmansohn, Instant Happy Journal: 365 Days of Inspiration, Gratitude, and Joy, illustrated edition, Ten Speed…. From the entry oopsortunity
• The data suggest a correlation between HSB type and feeding type, especially of zigzag HSB with ossiphagous feeding.1999, C Stefen, “Enamel microstructure of recent and fossil Canidae (Carnivora: Mammalia)”, in Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology. From the entry ossiphagous
• Then I crossed back under the freeway, zigzagged along minor roads, and came into Kukeng from the south.1995, Anthony Hyde, chapter 10, in Formosa Straits, 1st edition (Fiction), Alfred A. Knopf, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 107. From the entry Kukeng
• The naturalistic scenes are crisscrossed with fingermarks and an array of signs and geometric designs, zigzagged, straight and curved.1992 October 20, Marlise Simons, “Stone Age Art Shows Penguins at Mediterranean”, in New York Times. From the entry fingermark
• Sarajevans – old, young, men, women, Muslim, Croat, Serb – dart across the road in zigzags in an attempt to dodge the bullets.2022, Priscilla Morris, Black Butterflies, Duckworth, page 51. From the entry Sarajevan
• Breezy, confident and ultracompetent, Rajiv serves as a maddening counterfoil to his struggling younger brother, whose waffling and zigzag career path infuriates their father.2008 January 11, William Grimes, “A Physician Caught Trying to Heal Himself”, in New York Times. From the entry ultracompetent
• And running zigzag down its back, you can see its squiggly ridgebone taking all the meanders you can see right down below.2005, Brock Brower, Nancy Lawton, Blue Dog, Green River. From the entry ridgebone
• In general, the mature endosperm shows a protein-rich outer layer and exotegmic cells have a zigzag pattern, while the exotesta is siliciferous.1998, Klaus Kubitzki, H. Huber, The Families and Genera of Vascular Plants: Volume VI: Flowering Plants. Monocotyledons: Alismatanae and…. From the entry exotegmic
• The temple, halfway up the Matheran hills, was approached by a 'puffing billy' train on a zigzag railway from Neral, two miles from Bombay.1969, Allen V. Ross, Vice in Bombay, London: Tallis Press, page 148. From the entry puffing Billy
• There was the river: woodland paths skirting in the evening a world of silver and grey, across which bats sketched zigzag flights.1915, Sir Lewis Anselm da Costa Ritchie, “An Off-Shore Wind”, in A Tall Ship. From the entry dimpsey
• Bond order studies show that zigzag fused naphthalene does not have tendency to distort while armchair fused naphthalene and polyperylene have a tendency to distort along the edges.2016, V. M. L. Durga Prasad Goli, Suryoday Prodhan, Sumit Mazumdar, S. Ramasesha, “Correlated Electronic Properties of Some Graphene…. From the entry polyperylene
• And she did not take her foot off the gas, zigzagging over the southern areas of the country—that vast anti-Alaska of waffle houses and sunshine, cattle ranches and swamplands.2013, Leigh Newman, Still Points North: One Alaskan Childhood, One Grown-up World, One Long Journey Home, New York, N.Y.: The Dial Press…. From the entry waffle house
• If you have a serger, you can use it to finish fabric edges so they don't ravel, but the zigzag stitch on your regular machine works well, too.2008, Madlyn Easley, Quick and Easy Window Treatments: 15 Easy-Sew Projects that Build Skills, Too, page 20. From the entry serger
• Unlike a drag hunt, where the scent is laid in a straight line, trailers will be trying to mirror the zigzag path of a hunted fox.2008 October 31, William Little, “Hunting booms three years after ban”, in Telegraph, UK, retrieved 15 Nov 2015. From the entry drag hunt
• She wore a coat made of old cloth from Uzbekistan called a suzani, which was faded black with embroidered red circles and yellow and white zigzags.2007 March 18, Winter Miller, “Personal Sound Effects”, in The New York Times, archived from the original on 25 May 2022. From the entry Uzbekistan
• The pleasing fungus beetles are pleasing indeed: many are brightly patterned with contrasting black with red, yellow, orange, pink or purple in spots, stripes, rings, and even zigzags.2006, James T. Costa, “Coleoptera: Beetle Societies III: Leaf, Fungus, Carrion, Darkling, and Whirlgig Beetles and Their Allies”, in The…. From the entry pleasing fungus beetle
• The fine zigzag and diagonal interweavings, the nuances of varying intervals between the scansioned dots, show the enormous time and effort Polke invested in his complex, manual transfer method.1999, Margit Rowell, Michael Semff, Bice Curiger, Sigmar Polke: Works on Paper 1963-1974, →ISBN, page 27. From the entry scansion
• When it zigzagged, it was because she wanted to take a taan that slithered like a snake as it flashed past, progressing sideways across the sand.1997, Kiran Nagarkar, Cuckold, HarperCollins, published 2013, page 147. From the entry taan
• The glossy shell coloring is extremely various; the background is white, yellow or black, with or without longitudinal zigzag lines, transverse bands or blotches covering the surface.1993, Recovery Plan for the Oʻahu Tree Snails of the Genus Achatinella, page 14. From the entry fauces
• From the south, in a zigzag plunge from Egton High Moor, the road just past Key Green suddenly reveals delightful views of a rich, placid landscape.1980, AA Book of British Villages, Drive Publications Ltd, page 171. From the entry Key Green
• Twelve lengths (five yards each) of chiffon ruching, artistically selected colors (except bluette), decorates the vessel, trims in spirals the pillar, and falls in zigzags on base.1900, L[yman] Frank Baum, quoting the artist of the “Fountain of Chiffon”, “Fountain Display”, in The Art of Decorating Dry Goods Windows…. From the entry bluette
• Phylum uncertain, but in the past has been placed in the Phylum Proarticulata based on its "symmetry of gliding reflection" where segments meet along the midline in a zigzag fashion.2007, Mikhail A. Fedonkin, The Rise of Animals, page 281. From the entry dickinsoniomorph
• A zigzag of lightning fretted the eastern horizon in a brilliant greenish flash, sharply outlining the sea-line; and, as a solemn, hollow, distant peal reverberated, a spitter of rain fell.1916, The Wireless Age, page 19. From the entry spitter

Meaning of zigzag

1. noun A line or path that proceeds by sharp turns in alternating directions.
2. noun One of these sharp turns.
3. adjective Moving in, or having a zigzag.

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How do you use zigzag in a sentence?

Zigzag is used as a noun, adjective and verb. For example: “I walked down the zigzagging path.”

What is a short sentence with zigzag?

“I walked down the zigzagging path.”

What does zigzag mean?

Zigzag means a line or path that proceeds by sharp turns in alternating directions.