whiplike
Americanadjective
Example Sentences
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One had a whiplike antenna that would hit him as he ran.
From Salon ● Jun. 10, 2022
Raizen decided to look at placozoans—round, flat, transparent creatures no bigger than a sesame seed that have just two layers of cells, each outfitted with whiplike projections called cilia.
From Science Magazine ● Oct. 27, 2021
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
Single-celled organisms like bacteria have small whiplike tails, or flagella, that allow them to move, but despite their molecular-scale efficiency, flagella will never push their owners far.
From Scientific American ● Oct. 11, 2011
The whiplike scar along the side of Rajar’s face twisted as the word left his lips.
From "The Reader" by Traci Chee
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