Example Sentences

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It may be no bigger than a BB shot, or it may be the size of a plum with a stalklike neck.

From Time Magazine Archive

Still others are stalklike, stiffly articulated into a stack of tibias, and one hangs off the wall�looking for all the world like a pterodactyl.

From Time Magazine Archive

The old men looked at their stalklike legs, dwelled on the cords in the backs of their knees and remembered old dance steps they had not done in twenty years.

From "Sula" by Toni Morrison

On the other side of the river, orange-and-pink birds waded on stalklike legs.

From "Beauty Queens" by Libba Bray

I have looked into your owlish eyes and watched you go flitting over the sand on your thin, stalklike legs?

From The Man the Martians Made by Long, Frank Belknap