Example Sentences

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But other experts believe Lucy’s hooklike hands and her flexible shoulders suggest she was a decent tree-climber.

From New York Times • Aug. 29, 2016

Hughes engineers theorized that the satellite might have failed because a hooklike "trigger" that projected from its side was not fully engaged.

From Time Magazine Archive

Programmed by computer, the robots' hooklike hands lift heavy steel parts and wield welding torches with better-than-human precision.

From Time Magazine Archive

The tail is a grasping instrument, strongly prehensile, and aided by two hooklike claws, sheathed with horn, externally visible on each side, beneath, just anterior to the base of the tail.

From Forest and Frontiers Or, Adventures Among the Indians by Gordon-Cumming, Roualeyn

The ulnare is conspicuously similar to the ulna in bearing a posterior hooklike expansion, and is larger than the radiale.

From A New Order of Fishlike Amphibia From the Pennsylvanian of Kansas by Eaton, Theodore H. (Theodore Hildreth)