pistonlike
- a word derived from piston.
Example Sentences
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Despite standing just two feet tall, an adult bird is armed with pistonlike legs and razor-sharp claws.
From New York Times • May 17, 2024
The bridge’s single tower has two legs, designed to move independently in a quake, and a pistonlike structure that prevents sections of bridge deck from crashing into each other, Mahan explained.
From Seattle Times • Mar. 9, 2017
Maxim followed with a pistonlike left and a short right to the head; Mills went down and sank back on his haunches like a bemused Buddha, wiping his nose as the referee counted him out.
From Time Magazine Archive
And for the past 20 years, Firestone's National Advertising Manager A. J. McGinness has commuted almost every week between Akron and Manhattan studios to see that everything, including divas' temperaments, functions with pistonlike smoothness.
From Time Magazine Archive
Then he brought his gaze back to Lilly, his Adam's apple above the gray necktie throbbing so that it seemed to her his entire body must reverberate to the pistonlike process.
From Star-Dust by Hurst, Fannie
