winglike
Americanadjective
Etymology
Origin of winglike
Example Sentences
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The statuesque Ms. Chapa wears a silvery unitard that bares her shoulders and arms to allow for winglike moments.
From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 17, 2025
DART, a car-sized box with two winglike solar panels, will soon be heading toward a binary asteroid system.
From Scientific American • Nov. 18, 2021
The seed may have travelled there on a gust of wind, its flight aided by a winglike attachment to the nut.
From The New Yorker • Jan. 13, 2020
Saarinen’s concrete structure, with its soaring, winglike vaulted roof, its huge fields of glass, and its thrilling interior curves, cantilevers and airy mezzanines, is one of the great buildings of the past century.
From Washington Post • Jun. 12, 2019
Just before dark, they began skimming across the water, their short, winglike fins taking them on flights of twenty or thirty feet, sometimes more.
From "The Cay" by Theodore Taylor
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