(a.) Winding; full of windings and turnings; sinuous; tortuous; as, the anfractuous spires of a born.
Example Sentences:
(1) In one case, there was a very large anfractuous cavity in the socket and head, complicated by a pathological fracture of the socket, which raised the suspicion of a malignant tumor.
(2) The scanning electron microscope shows that the keratocytes of the macular dystrophy of the cornea have an irregular and anfractuous surface and that some cytoplasmic particles are broken off.
Twisty
Definition:
Example Sentences:
(1) I had seen the intriguingly named Millbrook Proving Ground on Top Gear, when Jeremy Clarkson et al thrashed some trucks around its 45 miles of twisty track.
(2) She said: "He's exaggerated the steepness of the hill, but he captures its twisty steepness, and the vast expanses of patchwork field."
(3) "Tinker Tailor rubbish, all moody non-dialogue and twisty plot that you desperately follow and then the denouement is cos the baddies are idiots and say something stupid - what's the point of the clever twisty plot when the goodies don't have to unravel it?"
(4) Meanwhile, NBC's The Event is a twisty political thriller in the vein of 24, ABC is counting on its Generation Y drama My Generation, to be a hit, and CBS has greenlit the first comedy to be spun off from Twitter with Shit My Dad Says, starring William Shatner as the titular grumpy dad.
(5) Life endlessly circles a very fast and twisty track."
(6) A larger force of demonstrators then squeezed through a police cordon on a twisty lane that cuts across the flat land of the Humber estuary between the camp and the power station.
(7) Will Twisty return for an undead juggle-death rampage?
(8) These days, it’s practically geriatric, most often to be found on So Fresh 90s CD compilations gathering dust under the front passenger seat next to some petrified Twisties and Happy Meal figurines.
(9) 10 Pinnacle The planned 288m, 63-storey tower on Bishopsgate in the City is also known as the Helter-Skelter for its twisty design at the top.
(10) With that in mind I'm thinking of some sort of gigantic stone tower with a twisty slide off the side of it."
(11) Back in Rovinj's pretty harbourside and twisty cobbled streets we find the usual pizza joints, but mixed in with some seriously good restaurants and bars.
(12) Seeing poor Twisty offed so limply has been the season’s biggest misstep; the events of the nonsensical, if fun, Edward Mordrake episodes left Freak Show weaker as a whole.
(13) The issue of EU membership makes this yet more twisty.
(14) Can it really be seven years since I came back to Los Angeles after a month in England, ready to savour four spicy, bitchy, twisty new episodes of hard-boiled high-school noir on DVR, only to discover that the Paul Rudd-as-mean-jerky-rock star episode had been obliterated by extended news coverage of the ferocious Griffith Park fire of May 2007?
(15) But the back of the car is 4ft off the ground and the bonnet is wrapped around a tree, the result of a twisty country bend in Suffolk and a boy in a hurry.