Example Sentences

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What makes this sauce truly special is its chameleonlike nature: It changes depending on how you use it.

From Seattle Times • Jan. 14, 2024

The setup is basically “Brideshead Revisited” by way of “The Talented Mr. Ripley,” though Keoghan’s unsubtly creepazoid performance is reptilian without being remotely chameleonlike.

From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 1, 2023

These identities aren’t fixed: A neutrino of one type can change into another, chameleonlike, as it zips along at near–light-speed.

From Science Magazine • Sep. 28, 2022

Wong's revue showcased her chameleonlike powers to transform herself.

From Salon • Apr. 2, 2022

The color of the globe, now fallen below the area of blue, had taken on, chameleonlike, the color of the white flames that bathed it.

From Astounding Stories of Super-Science, August 1930 by Bates, Harry