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How to use tendril in a sentence

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He was shirtless, exceedingly pale, a quivering tendril of a man trying to dodge a patch of sun that persisted in dappling his face.
At the base of each flower cluster is a tendril, which balloon vine uses to climb.
She also had washed, for her golden skin glowed and her honey hair was half wet, each tendril drying into a perfect wave.
There is no music floating up the stairs, no sound of splashing water, no tendril of cigarette smoke snaking its delicate way towards the bed.
When the tendril closest to a fruit turns brown and dries up, the melon is ripe.
Leaves and spiralling tendril arabesques overlap each other in various ways and over several layers, crowned by a trefoil.
This box already features the branched vine tendril motif that would later become the ornamental motif referred to as the arabesque.
To further guide curls and create a more unified, smooth tendril, wind small sections of hair around your fingers.
A tendril is a slender whiplike or threadlike strand, produced usually from the node of a stem, by which a vine or other plant may climb.
This twining tendril becomes transformed at its tip into a pitcher that is held upright.
Its surface is covered with a vine tendril decoration, which is framed above and below by a thin border pattern of merlons.
A delicate tendril pattern also covers the surface of the main central forked leaves.
No lusty bud nor curling tendril burst from the barren vine.
The north-flowing Gulf Stream collides with a tendril of the southbound Labrador Current there, creating knots and plumes of flow that change daily, even hourly.
One woman is focused intently on wrapping and unwrapping a tendril of hair around her finger.
He wrote another book about the ways plants grow and climb, and he worked out that the tendril climbers, like the vine or the passionflower, are the most evolved.
This tendril is framed above and below by two smoothly finished but well-defined lines. The middle section is decorated with stylised interconnecting half-palmette tendrils that cover its entire area.
Liddell nodded, exhaled a feathery tendril of dirty white smoke ceilingward.
A vagrant breeze swirling around the mountainside twisted a tendril of smoke over the young monk and sent him back reeling and coughing and with eyes streaming.
In addition to their twining character, some tendrils produce terminal enlargements that, on contact with a firm surface, flatten and secrete an adhesive, firmly cementing the tendril to the substrate.
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Examples from Classical Literature
Yes, she was my girl, devoted to me, attached to me by every tendril of her being.
Grapevines climbed the posts and tendril shadows were on the ground beneath.
So, orientating once more like a fragile tendril, he reached again for the banister rail, and got it.
The shape of the tendril is all that can be said in its favour.
It was probably derived from an old form of leaf and tendril.
Piece of the stem of Virginia creeper, bearing a leaf and a tendril.
That of course makes it less probable that the tendril will be broken.
He plucks the tendril from a vine, smells it, and puts it in his mouth.
His stomach, less resigned than he was, rebelled, and he was obliged to fasten a tendril of wild-vine tightly about his waist.
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