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zigzag - use in sentences
Object
- path: Turn left down the drive to some houses and then zigzag back down the path to the main road.
Converse of object
- have: The first floor on the N side now has big zigzag too.
Preposition: at
- angle: On the N side even bays one and two have zigzag at r. angles to the wall, i.e. a Late Norman motif.
Adjective modifier
- big: The first floor on the N side now has big zigzag too.
- steep: The Coast Path enters the village via a steep zigzag through someone's garden, dropping steeply to the harbor.
- yellow: Cars are still parking on the yellow zigzags to let kids out.
Modifies a noun
- path: Instead, continue on the zigzag path crossing a wall then turning left to emerge from the trees via a stile.
- pattern: Five 100m long trenches were laid out in zigzag pattern from north to south along the area.
- fashion: In this way, material moves in a zigzag fashion along a beach.
- line: Please do not enter the school grounds or park on the zigzag lines outside the school.
- route: We had a rough road for the first hour, having to descend by a zigzag route down a cliff several hundred feet.
- course: The deer was obviously moving in a zigzag course to escape the shots of hunters.
Modifying Another Word
- down: Turn left down the drive to some houses and then zigzag back down the path to the main road.
Followed by an intransitive particle
- down: Built on a series of terraces beneath St. Boniface Down the town's roads zigzag down to the sea past the beautifully planted cascades.
Followed by a transitive particle
- down: Novice: Getting better, can now zigzag down the river.
Noun used with modifier
- path: The third section is intimidating on approach, a path zigzags through the crag avoiding much of the trouble.
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