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Even so, I wish the production, directed by Will Davis, achieved better control of its tone, which seems to wander wherever it wants instead of heading beelike toward its goal.

From New York Times • Apr. 4, 2018

Another, wearing a kind of beanie with a beelike antenna, kept urging the legislators to mind their manners, hardly deterring the wag who cried periodically, "When do we eat?"

From Time Magazine Archive

The two doctors reasoned that the robber fly's beelike appearance protects it from predators that fear the sting of real bumblebees.

From Time Magazine Archive

The Spring, the Spring, with her fragrant feet,   Is passing this way!—Oh, hark to the beat Of her beelike heart!—Oh, sweet, sweet, sweet!

From Poems by Cawein, Madison Julius

With eyes of far forgetfulness,—   Like some wild wood-thing's daughter, Whose feet are beelike fretfulness,—   To see her run like water   Through boughs that slipped or caught her.

From Poems by Cawein, Madison Julius