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Grammar : Adj
Spell : zig-zag
Phonetic Transcription : ˈzɪgˌzæg



Definition of zigzag

  • adj moving side to side
Example sentences :
  • Where the drawing is white, cover the page with zigzag lines.
  • Extract from : « Modern Painters Volume I (of V) » by John Ruskin
  • The voyage of the best ship is a zigzag line of a hundred tacks.
  • Extract from : « Essays, First Series » by Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • And there she was, waiting for them in the wet, at the first turn of the zigzag.
  • Extract from : « Where Angels Fear to Tread » by E. M. Forster
  • The lines of wall, floor and ceiling were strangely off proportion, zigzag, unrelated.
  • Extract from : « Warm » by Robert Sheckley
  • Carmena dropped it at his feet and began to zigzag down the mesa side.
  • Extract from : « Bloom of Cactus » by Robert Ames Bennet
  • We should never have been able to ascend the hill without going in zigzag.
  • Extract from : « The Land of the Long Night » by Paul du Chaillu
  • This was built in zigzag shape, so that a flanking fire could be kept up from it.
  • Extract from : « Through Three Campaigns » by G. A. Henty
  • "I can see the zigzag road leading up to the Hermitage," said Rosie.
  • Extract from : « Rollo in Naples » by Jacob Abbott
  • We had to grope our way as well as we could between the zigzag fences.
  • Extract from : « The Quadroon » by Mayne Reid
  • Its zigzag course makes it problematical where it will fall.
  • Extract from : « India and the Indians » by Edward F. Elwin

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