Examples of winglike in a Sentence
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University of Western Australia and Japan In remarkable footage released Sunday, a number of translucent, scaleless fish with winglike fins and eel-like tails can be seen swimming in a black abyss, illuminated by a spotlight cast from a baited camera.
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Aina J. Khan, NBC News, 3 Apr. 2023
Soo Joo Park wore a set of soft, watercolored daisies along the cheeks and temples, while Sara Grace Wallerstedt's gaze was flanked by pretty winglike petals.
—Lauren Valenti, Vogue, 29 Apr. 2021
Here was an urucurana, with its winglike buttress roots taller than my whole body.
—Alex Cuadros, New York Times, 4 Jan. 2023
The ghost bat is a nocturnal hunter that uses a combination of keen eyesight and echolocation to hunt and catch prey, wrapping its winglike arms around it, and in the case of budgies (a type of small parrot), eating it head-first.
—Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 24 Mar. 2022
After the animal died, conditions on the sea floor were just right to preserve its soft tissue and long, winglike fins.
—Rodrigo Pérez Ortega, Science | AAAS, 15 Apr. 2021
Boeing also previously identified a third quality-control lapse affecting the horizontal stabilizer, a movable, winglike panel in the tail.
—Andrew Tangel and Andy Pasztor, WSJ, 14 Dec. 2020
Many in eastern India take pride in the beauty of the winglike extensions of the sterile lemma in Moynatundi and Ramigali rice.
—Debal Deb, Scientific American, 16 Oct. 2019
The animal died with its winglike arms still stretched over 12 eggs.
—Kohei Tanaka, National Geographic, 15 May 2018
Aina J. Khan, NBC News, 3 Apr. 2023
Soo Joo Park wore a set of soft, watercolored daisies along the cheeks and temples, while Sara Grace Wallerstedt's gaze was flanked by pretty winglike petals.
—Lauren Valenti, Vogue, 29 Apr. 2021
Here was an urucurana, with its winglike buttress roots taller than my whole body.
—Alex Cuadros, New York Times, 4 Jan. 2023
The ghost bat is a nocturnal hunter that uses a combination of keen eyesight and echolocation to hunt and catch prey, wrapping its winglike arms around it, and in the case of budgies (a type of small parrot), eating it head-first.
—Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 24 Mar. 2022
After the animal died, conditions on the sea floor were just right to preserve its soft tissue and long, winglike fins.
—Rodrigo Pérez Ortega, Science | AAAS, 15 Apr. 2021
Boeing also previously identified a third quality-control lapse affecting the horizontal stabilizer, a movable, winglike panel in the tail.
—Andrew Tangel and Andy Pasztor, WSJ, 14 Dec. 2020
Many in eastern India take pride in the beauty of the winglike extensions of the sterile lemma in Moynatundi and Ramigali rice.
—Debal Deb, Scientific American, 16 Oct. 2019
The animal died with its winglike arms still stretched over 12 eggs.
—Kohei Tanaka, National Geographic, 15 May 2018
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“Winglike.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/winglike. Accessed 19 Apr. 2024.
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