Example Sentences

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It had several features that made it fit for climbing: long claws, spadelike front teeth to chew into bark, and flexible elbows and ankles.

From Scientific American • Feb. 13, 2015

Hands and feet are broad, pudgy and floppy; the fingers stiff, square and spadelike; the toes spread apart, like a duck's, by the solid skin.

From Time Magazine Archive

Inch by careful inch, paw by whisker, slowly painstakingly trying to make his body as small as possible, he flattened himself against the wall to get by the huge spadelike head.

From "Redwall" by Brian Jacques

The gigantic spadelike head of the snake thrust itself through into the small space.

From "Redwall" by Brian Jacques

Naxa was in the rear of the barn, filing down one of the spadelike toenails of a dorym.

From Deathworld by Dongen, H. R. van