Example Sentences

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Huerta’s performance is weighted more with sorrow than anger, and his people, with their blue skins and gill-like masks, are beautiful and mysterious.

From New York Times • Nov. 9, 2022

These mushroom-producing basidiomyces are sometimes referred to as “gill fungi” because of the presence of gill-like structures on the underside of the cap.

From Textbooks • Jan. 1, 2015

And adult acorn worms — together only with chordates — have gill-like pharyngeal slits for breathing and feeding.

From Scientific American • Apr. 15, 2013

Just behind the cockpit are gill-like projections called canards, the French word for ducks.

From Time Magazine Archive

When open, the water flows in, bathing the internal gill-like organs, which extract the air from the water, which is then suddenly expelled by a strong muscular effort.

From Our Common Insects A Popular Account of the Insects of Our Fields, Forests, Gardens and Houses by Packard, A. S. (Alpheus Spring)