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- adjective Alternative spelling of
zigzag . - noun Alternative spelling of
zigzag . - verb Alternative spelling of
zigzag .
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Examples
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Finally the fishermen positioned a motor boat at the base of the bay and began running zig-zag patterns that forced the dolphins to the mouth of the bay.
Hardy Jones: Does Cutting Nets Free Captive Dolphins? Hardy Jones 2010
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Do your tires roll 30 mph and jump over logs and zig-zag through trees?
I ran into a hunter a bit back at a sporting goods store. We got to talking about deer hunting. 2009
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As the golden light reveals, the artist holds his palette a flattened "U" rotated 90 degrees and enclosing a large circle at the end of a zig-zag arm.
A Rare Look at a Career's Missing Link Michael Fitzgerald 2011
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Finally the fishermen positioned a motor boat at the base of the bay and began running zig-zag patterns that forced the dolphins to the mouth of the bay.
Hardy Jones: Does Cutting Nets Free Captive Dolphins? Hardy Jones 2010
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One knits a rectangular strip, about 3 wide, and attaches it to a bib thing in zig-zag fashion, overlapping itself.
Jean's Knitting Jean 2009
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We're going to be in the Midwest--we're just going to be going all over the country in a giant zig-zag for two months, then we're going to take a break and go back out with Ray LaMontagne, who is one of my favorite singers.
Mike Ragogna: Orchestras & Mixtapes: Conversations with Brandi Carlile and Jared Evan Mike Ragogna 2011
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It portrayed a rudimentary skull-shape and a symbolic zig-zag bolt of electricity and displayed these three plain words of warning.
Short stories: Margaret Drabble and Katherine Mansfield 2011
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Did you also notice the zig-zag pattern on those four pillars surrounding the monument?
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We're going to be in the Midwest--we're just going to be going all over the country in a giant zig-zag for two months, then we're going to take a break and go back out with Ray LaMontagne, who is one of my favorite singers.
Mike Ragogna: Orchestras & Mixtapes: Conversations with Brandi Carlile and Jared Evan Mike Ragogna 2011
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Elizabeth Montague arranged the chairs of her salons in a semicircle where attendees were assigned places according to "talent and rank" (a challenge if one was considered to have one but not the other!), whereas Elizabeth Vesey, a more prescient harbinger of modern blogging, scattered cushions in the room so that there was "no zig-zag path of common impediment" to discourse.
Culture Maxine 2009
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