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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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Kravitz wore her brunette tresses in a sleek updo with loose tendrils, while her makeup consisted of beige eye shadow, winged eyeliner and a nude lip.
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Hannah Malach, WWD, 12 Mar. 2025
Selena Gomez’s sumptuous updo is framed by full, glossy bohemian bangs slightly separated at the center and giving way to loose, wavy tendrils.
—Calin Van Paris, Vogue, 18 Feb. 2025
Inspired by Shoshana Zuboff’s The Age of Surveillance Capitalism, Davidson grapples with the tendrils of Big Tech in songs that play out as a militant techno march interrupted by bursts of pop abandon.
—Madison Bloom, Pitchfork, 28 Feb. 2025
The Hubble image captures the nebula's diverse stellar population, which includes hot, young blue stars and older red stars, scattered among intricately woven, airy tendrils of gas and dark clumps of dust.
—Samantha Mathewson, Space.com, 20 Feb. 2025
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Hannah Malach, WWD, 12 Mar. 2025
Selena Gomez’s sumptuous updo is framed by full, glossy bohemian bangs slightly separated at the center and giving way to loose, wavy tendrils.
—Calin Van Paris, Vogue, 18 Feb. 2025
Inspired by Shoshana Zuboff’s The Age of Surveillance Capitalism, Davidson grapples with the tendrils of Big Tech in songs that play out as a militant techno march interrupted by bursts of pop abandon.
—Madison Bloom, Pitchfork, 28 Feb. 2025
The Hubble image captures the nebula's diverse stellar population, which includes hot, young blue stars and older red stars, scattered among intricately woven, airy tendrils of gas and dark clumps of dust.
—Samantha Mathewson, Space.com, 20 Feb. 2025
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“Tendril.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/tendril. Accessed 22 Mar. 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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