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  • noun Plural form of tendril.

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Examples

  • Bug eyed, stiff – thin tendrils of smoke crept from under his partner’s cuffs and collar.

    365 tomorrows » 2008 » June : A New Free Flash Fiction SciFi Story Every Day 2008

  • He had been already working on a show about firefighters when September 11, 2001 created what Tolan has called the "tendrils of pain and suffering snaking out still" that served to fuse the essential themes of Rescue Me.

    Nancy Doyle Palmer: The End of Rescue Me, But Not Denis Leary Nancy Doyle Palmer 2011

  • He had been already working on a show about firefighters when September 11, 2001 created what Tolan has called the "tendrils of pain and suffering snaking out still" that served to fuse the essential themes of Rescue Me.

    Nancy Doyle Palmer: The End of Rescue Me, But Not Denis Leary Nancy Doyle Palmer 2011

  • He had been already working on a show about firefighters when September 11, 2001 created what Tolan has called the "tendrils of pain and suffering snaking out still" that served to fuse the essential themes of Rescue Me.

    Nancy Doyle Palmer: The End of Rescue Me, But Not Denis Leary Nancy Doyle Palmer 2011

  • He had been already working on a show about firefighters when September 11, 2001 created what Tolan has called the "tendrils of pain and suffering snaking out still" that served to fuse the essential themes of Rescue Me.

    Nancy Doyle Palmer: The End of Rescue Me, But Not Denis Leary Nancy Doyle Palmer 2011

  • Caledan's hand began to tremble, calling tendrils of from nearby shadows.

    Curse of the Shadowmage Anthony, Mark, 1966- 1995

  • Though less luminous, her tendrils were the most numerous of all.

    206 BONES Kathy Reichs 1990

  • Though less luminous, her tendrils were the most numerous of all.

    206 BONES Kathy Reichs 1990

  • Though less luminous, her tendrils were the most numerous of all.

    206 BONES Kathy Reichs 1990

  • Like the true slans, they're a distinct race, being born without tendrils, which is the only differentiation from the snakes.

    Slan Van Vogt, A. E. 1946

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