Example Sentences

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The result looks almost like black marble with branchlike flourishes.

From New York Times • Mar. 2, 2023

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

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