zigzag , also: zig-zag

Work from left to right and in a zigzag pattern.

He took them on a zigzag course out across the floor of the gallery.

And now he could see a dim zigzag of red light up ahead.

There's a fine view from the top of the zigzag staircase.

Our trail through the snow must have been one long zigzag.

Now, do you remember the zigzag flight path we took?

Very often you will have to take a zigzag course to disguise your plans.

He paid little attention, running a zigzag course for the cover he'd chosen.

But you see, for the past month it has been leading me on a zigzag path.

"Do you think we ought to throw some zigzags into the course?"

They ran a zigzag course as the earth kicked up around them.

But the way you took that zigzag sure works fine."

"Come on back, but take it slow and run a zigzag course."

They leave a zigzag pattern instead of a straight edge.

He pointed up to a bright zigzag of four stars.

I turn on my side, make a parallel zigzag, and wait for sleep.

Cut the top off each pumpkin in a zigzag pattern.

I tried another zigzag maneuver, but my legs had nothing left in them.

His zigzags almost threw him into the path of fire.

I remember we stared at each other along the zigzag mess table.

Instead, they now moved in a zigzag pattern away from the wall into the desert, and then back again.

For years, or so it seemed, that zigzag march lasted.

It was making a zigzag track along the bottom of the pool.

He sent a burst himself, then continued his charge, low and zigzag.

That was followed by a series of flashing zigzag lines.

He was running hard and zigzagged at the same time.

She looked up and her eyes zigzagged across his face.

Her future is a line that zigzags up and down.

He found them zigzagging up the street, still following the blood.

We can zigzag a little and make better time, so be it.

We zigzagged for an hour, and I called my office from a station phone.

He zigzagged, never going in a straight line for more than a step or two.

"Being 78, I think zigzagging across the world is a bit too much," he said.

Soon we were zigzagging our way down the street, trying to find a store that was open.

Chicago began to zigzag left and right of her course track.

I drove back and zigzagged through the town, saying nothing.

You'll most likely find yourself zigzagging or going in circles at first.

To get a look at these, I drove around the town, zigzagging toward the wall when there was a turn.

I zigzagged, head down, so no bullets would get me.

The machine began to zigzag back and forth as if following something.

Their course zigzagged for a while, then led in the same direction that it had before.

Days are not spent zigzagging across the mountain from one lift to the next.

He has zigzagged his way through a whole alphabet of plans.

The overall average has been zigzagging upward from 79 percent in 1970.

The three boys started zigzagging down the steps of the pyramid.

We were vaguely zigzagging west, still hoping to hit a road.

"The guy was trying to avoid the bullets by zigzagging down the street," she said.

Her plan of attack: "Start at one end and zigzag down.

There was no one on the metal stairs zigzagging down the side of the building.

Apparently Joe was lost, for the light zigzagged over the landscape.