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1
: a leaf, stipule, or stem modified into a slender spirally coiling sensitive organ serving to attach a climbing plant to its support
2
: something suggestive of a tendril
creeping tendrils of fog
Examples of tendril in a Sentence
A few tendrils of hair framed her face.
Recent Examples on the Web
Fire whirls are small rotating tendrils of flames or smoke that occur along the edges of fires.
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Dinah Voyles Pulver, USA TODAY, 27 July 2024
The colorful designs invite you to have fun with these kinds of styles and take them to the next level, like the large fabric flower with the free-flowing tendrils.
—Michel Mejía, Vogue, 25 June 2024
But as weeks passed, about 85 percent of the device’s tendrils slipped out of his brain.
—Christina Jewett, New York Times, 22 May 2024
Two of them take off their headscarves entirely, one of them pushes it backward to pull out tendrils of hair to frame her face, and one of them keeps hers on.
—Roxana Hadadi, Vulture, 7 Feb. 2024
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Dinah Voyles Pulver, USA TODAY, 27 July 2024
The colorful designs invite you to have fun with these kinds of styles and take them to the next level, like the large fabric flower with the free-flowing tendrils.
—Michel Mejía, Vogue, 25 June 2024
But as weeks passed, about 85 percent of the device’s tendrils slipped out of his brain.
—Christina Jewett, New York Times, 22 May 2024
Two of them take off their headscarves entirely, one of them pushes it backward to pull out tendrils of hair to frame her face, and one of them keeps hers on.
—Roxana Hadadi, Vulture, 7 Feb. 2024
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“Tendril.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/tendril. Accessed 18 Aug. 2024.
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tendril
noun
ten·dril
ˈten-drəl 
1
: a slender leafless winding stem by which some climbing plants fasten themselves to a support
2
: something that curls like a tendril
tendrils of hair
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