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- verb Present participle of
zigzag . - adjective
winding ,twisting ,turning orsinuous
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Examples
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But I guess what's throwing everybody is the way that they're kind of zigzagging on the compromise.
Press Briefing By Dee Dee Myers ITY National Archives 1994
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“As to where we are,” said Ariel, “Can Head let us down through the valley floor, kind of zigzagging, and partway up the far slope.
Perihilion Asimov, Isaac 1988
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"Jet Stream is radically looping north and south zigzagging across the continent bringing actic air to zones that don't normally recieve it."
Tom McIntyre Explains His Picks for our 2009 Hunting and Fishing Heroes and Villians Face-Off 2009
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He was zigzagging through the impressive downtown area of Pittsburgh with its myriad tall buildings.
Arcane Circle Linda Robertson 2011
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I join in, zigzagging forward, looking here, there, in search of a miracle.
French Word-A-Day: 2009
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If you actually look at the weathermaps you will see that the Jet Stream is radically looping north and south zigzagging across the continent bringing actic air to zones that don't normally recieve it.
Tom McIntyre Explains His Picks for our 2009 Hunting and Fishing Heroes and Villians Face-Off 2009
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Jane whirled around and saw a disgustingly filthy man with a scar zigzagging down his cheek and an eye that sagged in its socket.
Uprising Margaret Peterson Haddix 2011
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Forget anything you've heard about zigzagging – just leg it.
Survival tips: what to do if an animal attacks you Phil Daoust 2010
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Its polluted, greenish water wound through Milwaukie and the southeast end of Portland, zigzagging back and forth between Multnomah and Clackamas counties until it emptied, finally, into the Willamette River.
The Sins of Brother Curtis Lisa Davis 2011
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I join in, zigzagging forward, looking here, there, in search of a miracle.
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