Use "zig-zag" in a sentence
zig-zag example sentences
zig-zag
1. win a prize for the biggest zig-zags
2. He looked at the thin, green line of light and then looked at the faint mountain path that made a zig-zag through the ever rockier slopes
3. On the zig-zag approach I lose fat and keep muscle much
4. zig-zagged back and forth as the Corolla made it's way up
5. unpaved access roads that zig-zagged their way around
6. Even though it was snowing harder now than when he’d gone into Wackowski’s Variety, ten-year-old Ben McNally had a world record to break and that’s why he ran through the back lot, zig-zagging between the Fords, Chevys, and Dodges—he was getting good at recognizing makes and models—clutching the paper bag with ‘Wackowski’s Variety’ printed in red and blue on the side
7. Through the crackling and banging of the wood beams falling on the floor she heard Ali calling to her, but she didn't care, she continued to run in a zig-zagging line to avoid the falling objects
8. Most ski areas have a network of catwalks zig-zag-traversing
9. It wasn’t but a twenty-five minute ride down the unpaved access roads that zig-zagged their way around the fenced-off fields of hay, alfalfa, and grazing live stock
10. A protracted zig-zag within a short radius accompanied by very small volume means lifelessness, but with normal or abnormally large volume, accumulation or distribution is more or less evidenced
11. What had attracted their attention was that the goodman was walking in a zig-zag, as though he were intoxicated
12. The ellipsis is the zig-zag of the phrase
13. more than one street corner—for they are streets—presenting itself in the gloom like an interrogation point; first, on his left, the vast sewer of the Platriere, a sort of Chinese puzzle, thrusting out and entangling its chaos of Ts and Zs under the Post-Office and under the rotunda of the Wheat Market, as far as the Seine, where it terminates in a Y; secondly, on his right, the curving corridor of the Rue du Cadran with its three teeth, which are also blind courts; thirdly, on his left, the branch of the Mail, complicated, almost at its inception, with a sort of fork, and proceeding from zig-zag to zig-zag until it ends in the grand crypt of the outlet of the Louvre, truncated and ramified in every direction; and lastly, the blind alley of a passage of the Rue des Jeuneurs, without counting little ducts here and there, before reaching the belt sewer, which alone could conduct him to some issue sufficiently distant to be safe
14. Traverse steep slopes in a zig-zag and as you change direction always set off with the uphill foot
15. You will notice that when a market is trending, in any timeframe, it tends to move in a zig-zag fashion, like this:
16. So the little impudent fellow would waste many an ear in a forenoon; till at last, seizing some longer and plumper one, considerably bigger than himself, and skilfully balancing it, he would set out with it to the woods, like a tiger with a buffalo, by the same zig-zag course and frequent pauses, scratching along with it as if it were too heavy for him and falling all the while, making its fall a diagonal between a perpendicular and horizontal, being determined to put it through at any rate;—a singularly frivolous and whimsical fellow;—and so he would get off with it to where he lived, perhaps carry it to the top of a pine tree forty or fifty rods distant, and I would afterwards find the cobs strewn about the woods in various directions
17. "But we?—What time or thought had we for his troubles? WE WERE FREE! In lightning leaps, in curving spurts, in crazy zig-zags—whooping, shrieking with delight, we sped for home and the open sea!
18. So that Monsoons, Pampas, Nor'-Westers, Harmattans, Trades; any wind but the Levanter and Simoon, might blow Moby Dick into the devious zig-zag world-circle of the Pequod's circumnavigating wake
19. The Morea was zig-zagging at the time, so more helm was given her to dodge the oncoming torpedo
