cablelike
- a word derived from cable.
Example Sentences
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The cablelike appearance inspired the microbe’s common name.
From Science Magazine • Aug. 19, 2020
That same month it launched WatchTV, a cablelike package of more than 30 TV channels delivered via the Internet.
From Washington Post • Oct. 10, 2018
Other cablelike “event series” include Fox’s “Wayward Pines,” a thriller from the movie director M. Night Shyamalan.
From New York Times • Jan. 18, 2015
The court ruled against the company, which created a cablelike service without paying broadcast networks for the rights to their content.
From New York Times • Jun. 26, 2014
The same trees peered at us, the same cablelike vines gripped our legs, and the same weird rock masses blocked our paths, but love was in our hearts, and morbid thoughts were chased away.
From The White Waterfall by Dwyer, James Francis
