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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.
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Most take a picture with Spider-Man, and everyone who does, every single one, shapes their own fingers into that Ozzy devil-horn thing and, as Spider-Man would, pretend to blast out a tendril of spider fluid.
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Christopher Borrelli, Chicago Tribune, 4 June 2025
Elsewhere, organised crime still has its tendrils in many parts of the sport across the globe, and the misty-eyed reverence for benevolent local tycoons is a notion that went extinct before the Tasmanian tiger.
—Jacob Whitehead, New York Times, 2 June 2025
Their plot to dig holes in their parents’ love garden entangles them in the tendrils of their own blooming feelings.
—Lorraine Berry, Los Angeles Times, 27 May 2025
Meanwhile, in some of the pipes running under the town, new tendrils of cordyceps raise their ugly little spindles.
—Kimberly Roots, TVLine, 13 Apr. 2025
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Christopher Borrelli, Chicago Tribune, 4 June 2025
Elsewhere, organised crime still has its tendrils in many parts of the sport across the globe, and the misty-eyed reverence for benevolent local tycoons is a notion that went extinct before the Tasmanian tiger.
—Jacob Whitehead, New York Times, 2 June 2025
Their plot to dig holes in their parents’ love garden entangles them in the tendrils of their own blooming feelings.
—Lorraine Berry, Los Angeles Times, 27 May 2025
Meanwhile, in some of the pipes running under the town, new tendrils of cordyceps raise their ugly little spindles.
—Kimberly Roots, TVLine, 13 Apr. 2025
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“Tendril.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/tendril. Accessed 9 Jun. 2025.
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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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