Example Sentences

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Dior’s corsets were of lighter construction, but their nickname, “waspies,” underlined their goal to pinch women’s waists to wasplike insignificance.

From New York Times • Nov. 25, 2016

A hot, throttle-busting flyer, Quesada won his wings in 1925, studied engineering, learned to pilot every plane from wasplike pursuits to lumbering amphibians.

From Time Magazine Archive

They were wasplike, thorax and abdomen joined in narrow waists, wings like blades, and stingers longer than a child’s arm.

From "Strange the Dreamer" by Laini Taylor

While thus half reclining I noticed a diminutive black wasplike insect upon one of the oak leaves close to my face.

From Harper's Round Table, July 9, 1895 by Various

And what an angry disturbed wasplike hum it would provoke!

From San Crist?bal de la Habana by Hergesheimer, Joseph