Example Sentences

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Chinese media dubbed the branchlike patterns carved by trickling waters “Earth tree,” calling the lake’s condition a warning about a dangerous future of intensifying extreme weather.

From Washington Post • Aug. 24, 2022

Under normal conditions, microglia have small cell bodies with branchlike protrusions that extend throughout brain tissue.

From Scientific American • Jul. 26, 2021

The branchlike substance he coughed up reminded her of the blood clots removed from patients’ lungs that sometimes retained the shape of the branching blood vessels they came from.

From New York Times • Feb. 12, 2020

At the end of the axon are branchlike terminals.

From Textbooks • Jan. 1, 2015

The cusps end in knobs like thistle-heads, and are themselves rather branchlike.

From Portuguese Architecture by Watson, Walter Crum