wavelike
Americanadjective
Example Sentences
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These liquid chambers alternately bulge and elongate, creating a visible and slow wavelike ripple along a worm’s body, scooting it forward.
From Slate ● Mar. 8, 2024
Though Gasque's calculations don't directly address the on-off glow that makes the phenomenon look like a picket fence, it's likely due to wavelike variations in the electric field, she said.
From Science Daily ● Dec. 8, 2023
The club’s name might plausibly apply to the artist’s recent series of “Ligature” drawings: rhythmic, calligraphic doodles of meandering wavelike shapes.
From New York Times ● Mar. 16, 2023
At other times, the particles showed a broad and wavelike behavior, with influence spreading out over large regions of physical space relative to their natural size.
From Scientific American ● Mar. 16, 2023
The cycle was so regular that its pattern took on a clear form: an up-and-down movement, wavelike.
From "Gathering Blue" by Lois Lowry
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