How to Use tendril in a Sentence

tendril

noun
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  • With a little coaxing, the pea tendrils will take to the twine just fine.
    — Jill Gleeson, Country Living, 31 Mar. 2023
  • There, poking up through the soil, was a tiny green tendril.
    — Corinne Purtill, Los Angeles Times, 31 May 2023
  • Pour milk in coffee, and the eddies and tendrils of white soon fade to brown.
    — Wired, 11 Aug. 2019
  • The closest water is the tendrils of the Charles River.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 20 Nov. 2019
  • Most of the rest form a single shape coming off it, like a tendril.
    — Quanta Magazine, 19 Feb. 2020
  • The tendrils of the Josh Hader trade have been big-time assets for the Brewers this year.
    — Jr Radcliffe, Journal Sentinel, 25 Aug. 2023
  • A few of the tendrils stretched out toward him, sensing him.
    — Andrew Liptak, The Verge, 8 July 2018
  • The mother can wrap these tendrils around the base of a plant or rock to anchor it, McPheeters explains in the video.
    — Will Sullivan, Smithsonian Magazine, 7 Aug. 2023
  • Markle wore her hair in a low chignon with face-framing tendrils.
    — Jenna Rosenstein, Harper's BAZAAR, 12 Oct. 2018
  • Curl green pipe cleaners to form tendrils and wrap around the handle.
    — Charlyne Mattox, Country Living, 30 Aug. 2023
  • This keeps too many tendrils of egg white from floating off.
    — Christopher Michel, Country Living, 28 July 2023
  • Jenner wore her hair in a bun at the crown of her head, with two tendrils framing her face.
    — Kaitlyn Frey, PEOPLE.com, 4 June 2018
  • But a week later, most of my herbs had turned to withered tendrils.
    — Paige Curtis, The Atlantic, 9 Aug. 2023
  • The spores attach to the ant and germinate, spreading through the host's body via long tendrils called mycelia.
    — Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 17 July 2019
  • One large whirl captured by an infrared camera shows a thin tendril snaking high above the rest of the flames.
    — Lila Seidman, Anchorage Daily News, 11 Aug. 2021
  • Hell, the cover features a man and a woman joined at the brain stem by a pink pulsing tendril.
    — Will Nevin, OregonLive.com, 12 Mar. 2018
  • Her hair was a frizzy mess with curly and wavy tendrils poking out at random.
    — Gabi Thorne, Allure, 30 Oct. 2023
  • Kylie wore her hair in an updo with a side part and left one long face-framing tendril.
    — Carrie Wittmer, Glamour, 16 May 2022
  • The same drugs quiet the gyrations of pea tendrils and the clenching of Venus flytraps.
    — Amy Brady, Scientific American, 14 Feb. 2023
  • The small, round device implanted in the skull is supposed to keep the thin tendrils of electrodes in place.
    — Christina Jewett, New York Times, 22 May 2024
  • Long tendrils of caper vines hang on the stone walls and bursts of fuchsia bougainvillea shock the senses.
    — Laura Itzkowitz, Travel + Leisure, 16 Oct. 2023
  • The 36-year-old's hair was styled by Serge Normant in a low chignon with a middle part and face framing tendrils.
    — Fox News, 22 May 2018
  • Two tendrils were pulled out on either side to frame her face and show off those warm blonde highlights.
    — Kara Nesvig, Allure, 5 Dec. 2023
  • Fenty Beauty, two tendrils, and a pope hat walked into the Met Gala.
    — Kathleen Hou, The Cut, 7 May 2018
  • There’s prairie smoke, with crimson buds that expel puffs of wispy seed tendrils.
    — New York Times, 23 Apr. 2018
  • Pea shoots are the stem, top leaves and delicate, curly threadlike tendrils of the green pea plant used for climbing.
    — Claire Perez, Sun-Sentinel.com, 20 Apr. 2018
  • The tendrils that clung to the opposite wall had been a gift in the opposite direction.
    — Eric Boodman, STAT, 19 June 2018
  • Indeed, Gunn’s eyes are always on stalks—or tendrils, or shoots, or leaves.
    — Matthew Bevis, Harper's Magazine, 9 Feb. 2022
  • To harvest, separate the fruit from the vine by cutting the tendril, but leave about two inches still attached to the fruit.
    — oregonlive, 2 Sep. 2023
  • One of the filters used in these observations is tuned for light from hot iron gas, tracing the ionized metal's distribution throughout the tendrils.
    — Phil Plait, Scientific American, 10 Nov. 2023

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