Example Sentences

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A few steps away was a townhouse where vinelike plants dangled over the garage door.

From New York Times • Aug. 16, 2015

To celebrate the Tour, Schiller was displaying three fantastical bikes by metal artist Victor Sonna that look like they’d ridden off a Dali painting, with crazy curves and vinelike handlebars.

From Washington Post • Mar. 12, 2015

Some of the seaweeds look like lace or snow crystals, some are ferny and vinelike, while others beckon like mermaids bearing feathery tresses.

From New York Times • Jun. 2, 2014

From there, these neurons extend vinelike projections called axons up through the brain and down into the spinal column.

From Time Magazine Archive

There was a fire escape at every other one of these windows—the usual spidery affair of black-painted iron, clinging vinelike to the bricks.

From The Rich Little Poor Boy by Gates, Eleanor