winglike
Americanadjective
Etymology
Origin of winglike
Example Sentences
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Although they lack the true wings of birds and bats, these frogs use extensive webbing between their toes as a winglike surface to slow their descent.
From Scientific American • Jun. 13, 2022
Saarinen’s concrete structure, with its soaring, winglike vaulted roof, its huge fields of glass, and its thrilling interior curves, cantilevers and airy mezzanines, is one of the great buildings of the past century.
From Washington Post • Jun. 12, 2019
The mechanism moves the plane’s horizontal tail, a winglike structure on the tail that helps the plane climb and descend.
From Seattle Times • Mar. 15, 2019
Weather-beaten, some think while passing him on a windy day, watching the way he lists with his arms out at his sides, winglike, the tail of his shirt fluttering behind him as he walks.
From The New Yorker • Apr. 24, 2017
Her hands flutter winglike, all of us hypnotized as she pulls notes forth from us as if spinning lace-weight yam.
From "What the Night Sings" by Vesper Stamper
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