Example Sentences

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At one large farm, rows of flowery, cactuslike dragonfruit plants droop over their wire props, heavy with juice that stains our fingers and lips a bright purply pink.

From Washington Post • Jan. 23, 2020

Merle Temkin’s trio of “Three Sisters” are striking cactuslike silhouettes, painted in desert-twilight tones of red, purple and near-black.

From Washington Post • Mar. 5, 2015

The men who grow the cactuslike plant that supplies much of the world's rope and cordage might soon have to dive for the storm cellar.

From Time Magazine Archive

Even today, only cottonwoods and Chinese elms—perennials with a cactuslike indifference to thirst—are commonly planted.

From "In Cold Blood" by Truman Capote

For there, instead of the cow, a sort of century plant gives milky white pulque, the fermented juice of this cactuslike desert plant.

From The Complete Book of Cheese by Brown, Robert Carlton