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zig-zag

[ US /ˈzɪɡˌzæɡ/ ]
ADJECTIVE
  1. having short sharp turns or angles

How To Use zig-zag In A Sentence

  • The conical upper section of the mountain is reached and the well-defined, rocky path zig-zags to the short summit ridge with its steep drop into the ben's north-east corrie.
  • So I sent for 55 black-and-white, zig-zag gumshields and that was the hoot, that was what got the youngsters interested.
  • While Mortar was thus learnedly discoursing, Sel-quist herded his team over to a staircase, which was cut out of the rock wall and zig-zagged down the side of the cliff. The Doom Brigade
  • We scurried along walls and zig-zagged from floor to floor effortlessly, battering demonic beetles with nunchakus, all to the accompaniment of a sweeping symphonic score.
  • Our protection was speed and keeping a zig-zag course.
  • I had a 26-inch IC barrel for pheasant, and I provided entertainment for zig-zagging doves by wasting a few boxes in "antiaircraft fire", but the best I ever shot at the skeet range was 19 out of 25 with a borrowed Franchi O/U 20 gauge! Feathers vs Clay
  • The facing of it, or architrave, was often ornamented with the zig-zag, billet, and other mouldings.
  • Regarding the execrable pact between Nazi Germany and Stalinist Russia, which shocked many former communist sympathizers into lives of anticommunism, Mr. Hobsbawm dismisses the "zig-zags and turns of Comintern and Soviet policy," specifically the "about-turn of 1939-41," which "need not detain us here. How a True Believer Keeps the Faith
  • Beyond the woods the path zig-zags steeply uphill and enters a pass between the east slopes of Arkle and the south west slopes of Meall Horn.
  • Men could be taken across on a wire ropeway, but the heavy materials had to be transported by horses on a steep zig-zag track on the side of the canyon.
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