Example Sentences

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These sawlike edges have given the fish its name.

From Fast Nine or, A Challenge from Fairfield by Douglas, Alan

The leaves, which are just coming out, are two or three inches long and about half as wide; they taper to a point and have serrate, or sawlike, edges.

From Among the Trees at Elmridge by Church, Ella Rodman

His thin sawlike features wore an expectant expression, and his eyes were lightened by a look of cunning and greed as he occasionally glanced down the road.

From Harper's Round Table, July 16, 1895 by Various

Neither Yamba nor I waited for the coming impact, but threw ourselves overboard just as the creature’s white sawlike weapon showed itself close to the surface only a few yards away. 

From The Adventures of Louis De Rougemont by Rougemont, Louis de

It was a frightful mouth, armed with huge rows of sawlike teeth, and although they knew the brute was dead the boys could not repress a shudder as they looked at it.

From The Rushton Boys at Treasure Cove Or, The Missing Chest of Gold by Davenport, Spencer