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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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It’s most commonly found in millennials, who are equally famous for a) partaking in co-ed sports leagues and b) batting away the creeping tendrils of mortality at every turn.
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Grace Perry, Outside, 1 Jan. 2026
Sprites, by contrast, often resemble crimson jellyfish or branching tendrils rising above thunderstorms.
—Daisy Dobrijevic, Space.com, 19 Dec. 2025
The Na’vi’s neural-locs connect to the tendrils coming out of the tree like God-ethernet.
—Rebecca Alter, Vulture, 18 Dec. 2025
This is also not the voice that was oblivious to what the newspapers and the magazines of the time said about her, or the letters in handwriting that meandered like tendrils on a vine.
—Literary Hub, 11 Dec. 2025
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Grace Perry, Outside, 1 Jan. 2026
Sprites, by contrast, often resemble crimson jellyfish or branching tendrils rising above thunderstorms.
—Daisy Dobrijevic, Space.com, 19 Dec. 2025
The Na’vi’s neural-locs connect to the tendrils coming out of the tree like God-ethernet.
—Rebecca Alter, Vulture, 18 Dec. 2025
This is also not the voice that was oblivious to what the newspapers and the magazines of the time said about her, or the letters in handwriting that meandered like tendrils on a vine.
—Literary Hub, 11 Dec. 2025
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“Tendril.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/tendril. Accessed 7 Jan. 2026.
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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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