Example Sentences

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When a fish was eaten by a seal, the acoustic receivers picked up erratic seal-like movements from the transmitter.

From Seattle Times • Apr. 10, 2023

Distance swimmers are more seal-like: sleek, cobby, meaty.

From New York Times • Feb. 4, 2016

The development of seal-like flippers, a condition known as phocomelia that previously affected an estimated 1 in 4 million infants, began to crop up by the dozens in many countries.

From Washington Post • Aug. 7, 2015

Did Waldseemüller and Olaus have unnamed sources that gave some additional anatomical details that sounded more elephant-like than seal-like?

From Scientific American • Nov. 22, 2011

A monster clawed its way out...a glistening telkhine with slick fur, a seal-like body, and stunted human limbs.

From "The House of Hades" by Rick Riordan