Example Sentences

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The researchers propose that spiders may triangulate the insects’ distance and direction using hairlike structures on their legs called trichobothria that pick up minute fluctuations in sound and air currents.

From Science Magazine • Dec. 4, 2024

But within each window, the material of the shell forms tightly packed, hairlike fibers rather than plates, all lined up in the direction of incoming light.

From Science Daily • Dec. 2, 2024

Moira: I removed my sprouts, as they always seem vaguely hairlike.

From Seattle Times • Aug. 24, 2023

Over a couple of days the cells clumped into little clusters that began behaving like multicellular microorganisms, sprouting cilia, hairlike protrusions that beat in a synchronized way to propel the clusters through the fluid.

From Scientific American • May 31, 2023

Next came two hairlike legs, which clawed and plucked at the blanket.

From "The City of Ember" by Jeanne DuPrau