wavelike
Americanadjective
Example Sentences
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Known as “Bay Lights 360,” the display will include 46,000 lights shimmering in abstract, wavelike formations that never repeat — similar to the old installation, but with better quality lights.
From New York Times ● May 2, 2024
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
Eventually, it undergoes a low frequency wavelike circumferential deformation.
From Science Daily ● Jan. 9, 2024
For the first time, scientists have observed quantum interference—a wavelike interaction between particles related to the weird quantum phenomenon of entanglement—occurring between two different kinds of particles.
From Scientific American ● Jan. 11, 2023
Alone Jake felt himself sink downward, slowly in wavelike motions downward into a shadowed ocean.
From "The Heart is a Lonely Hunter" by Carson McCullers
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