whiplike
Americanadjective
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One had a whiplike antenna that would hit him as he ran.
From Salon ● Jun. 10, 2022
Instead, the tail in amber is whiplike and flexible, bending in several places at once.
From Science Magazine ● Dec. 8, 2016
There were coordination problems in some of the fast scenes, such as Osmin’s rage aria in Act I, in which the whiplike percussive accents from the orchestra lagged behind.
From New York Times ● Apr. 24, 2016
Hence the children’s Sanskrit names and their long, whiplike tails of hair, which their father, stirring a bit of Sikh tradition into his ad-hoc doctrine, didn’t let them cut.
From The New Yorker ● Jun. 24, 2015
With a whiplike movement, Crabbe pointed his wand at the fifty-foot mountain of old furniture, of broken trunks, of old books and robes and unidentifiable junk, and shouted, “Descendo!”
From "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows" by J.K. Rowling
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