How to Use pendulous in a Sentence

pendulous

adjective
  • The four of us looked anywhere but at her pendulous knockers.
    — Kent Russell, Harper's Magazine, 28 Feb. 2025
  • Imagine a plant covered in tiny, pendulous white and pink floral pearls at this time of year.
    — Joshua Siskin, Oc Register, 15 Jan. 2026
  • The path itself was so overgrown and wove through the pendulous pink blossoms.
    — Literary Hub, 26 June 2025
  • The flowers are produced on a long, pendulous stalk with dusky purple bracts.
    — NOLA.com, 19 Aug. 2017
  • Flowering non-stop in fiery hues, the pendulous flowers have long petals that dance in the breeze.
    — Kim Toscano, Southern Living, 27 Apr. 2026
  • If the branches are pendulous and hang down, boost up the pot so the branches hang gracefully.
    — Dan Gill, NOLA.com, 18 Dec. 2017
  • The pendulous nests of weaverbirds, two feet long, hung like decorations from the trees along the banks.
    — Stanley Stewart, Travel + Leisure, 10 Jan. 2026
  • His roof a worsted novel with covers of bloodhound ears are pendulous, but never turning like a page.
    — Farnoosh Fathi, The New York Review of Books, 2 Feb. 2023
  • If tower four fails, the platform could either crash through the dish or make a pendulous swing into a nearby cliff.
    — Nadia Drake, National Geographic, 12 Nov. 2020
  • Now my face was enormous, my mouth elongated, my nostrils gaping, and my lips pendulous.
    — Hazlitt, 26 July 2023
  • Kent Beauty is a small, mounding plant with pendulous stems ending in these strange blooms, which endure for weeks.
    — Washington Post, 5 Feb. 2020
  • Aerial photos show that the platform likely made a pendulous swing into a nearby rock face.
    — Nadia Drake, Science, 1 Dec. 2020
  • Johnson continued to play the new-age bohemian with a pendulous amulet swinging from her neck.
    — Daniel Rodgers, Vogue, 5 Sep. 2024
  • Katz brackets the sensuous fruit abstractly, with pendulous flat green shapes masked by striped columns.
    — Cate McQuaid, BostonGlobe.com, 30 May 2018
  • Beyond the midway’s pendulous ships and elliptical coasters rise the white spires of the talent show tent.
    — Anya Groner, Longreads, 9 June 2017
  • The stems of angel-wing, dragon-wing, and tuberous begonias bow down under the weight of the pendulous flowers.
    — Brandee Gruener, Southern Living, 4 Apr. 2025
  • The stems of angel-wing, dragon-wing, and tuberous begonias bow down under the weight of the pendulous flowers.
    — Brandee Gruener, Southern Living, 5 Apr. 2026
  • There are just a few of us standing around while these big, bizarre creatures, whose pendulous noses hang down past their mouths, honk and roar at each other while bickering over guavas.
    — Christopher Bagley, Condé Nast Traveler, 15 Nov. 2018
  • Purpurea Pendula) grows 10 feet tall and wide with a pendulous growth habit and coppery to purple leaves.
    — Joshua Siskin, Oc Register, 6 Dec. 2025
  • As much as the game has improved, and grown, this is a niche sport that will continue to experience these types of pendulous growing pains for the next decade-plus.
    — Mac Engel march 31, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 31 Mar. 2026
  • Sweat slid down my sides and into the new crevices of my emptied-out and rearranged gut, which was stacked up in a pile beneath my pendulous breasts, my stinging nipples.
    — Meaghan O'Connell, Longreads, 10 Apr. 2018
  • The oblong foliage is accented by clusters of pendulous flower buds that dangle from stems all winter long before opening in spring.
    — Kim Toscano, Southern Living, 19 Dec. 2025
  • Her Cleopatra hairstyle had been dyed with strips of white, pink, and mold blue, and the pendulous ruffles of her gown-like overcoat were patterned orange and gray-green.
    — Spencer Kornhaber, The Atlantic, 21 Sep. 2022
  • Growing 1-3 feet tall and wide, Gartenmeister fuchsia grows upright when young but becomes more pendulous with age.
    — Karen Dardick, San Diego Union-Tribune, 18 July 2019
  • Then, just before the Fourth of July, two adult orioles began bringing tender morsels of yumminess to a hanging, pendulous nest in the tree.
    — Sheryl Devore, chicagotribune.com, 9 July 2021
  • Out in the wild, Baltimore orioles, the bright orange and black birds that sing in neighborhoods in spring and summer, build their pendulous hanging nests on cottonwood trees.
    — Sheryl Devore, Chicago Tribune, 10 June 2026
  • Her law clerks purchased the necklace—sunflower-like with its bright yellow beadwork and pendulous small crystal balls—from Anthropologie.
    — Alicia Ault, Smithsonian Magazine, 6 Apr. 2022
  • Peer at the pendulous breasts on a Medici workshop ewer or those on a screeching siren centered on an 18th-century scalloped sweetmeat dish.
    — Lisa Wong MacAbasco, Vogue, 31 Mar. 2025
  • Mother Nature must have designed fuchsias to flow from hanging baskets, with pendulous bicolor blooms dangling their ruffled skirts for hummingbirds to find.
    — Kim Toscano, Southern Living, 27 Apr. 2026
  • Hassan’s early scenes have a quiet, hypnotic quality, an effect intensified by the pendulous motion of the actors’ skating back and forth.
    — Jackson McHenry, Vulture, 3 June 2025

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