Example Sentences

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These armlike extensions are the show’s most playful embodiment of “stretch.”

From Washington Post • Feb. 1, 2019

Ophie slowed, letting go of her mama’s hand only long enough to feel for the armlike branch that marked the entrance to the burrow.

From "Ophie's Ghosts" by Justina Ireland

They were bipeds with two armlike extensions, lumpy objects, clad in bulky white folds.

From The Secret of the Ninth Planet by Wollheim, Donald Allen

Holding it by the handler's magnetic crane, he fixed it firmly in the armlike jaws on the front of the machine, then moved the machine into a position straddling the sphere of force.

From Empire by Simak, Clifford D.

These soft-bodied animals, with bivalve shells and two interior armlike processes which served for breathing, appeared in the Algonkian, and had now become very abundant.

From The Elements of Geology by Norton, William Harmon