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
A sponge consists of a network of interconnected canals, which include small digestive chambers lined with specialized digestive cells with whiplike projections.
From Science Magazine ● Nov. 3, 2021
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
The valley was cloaked in African olive trees, African cedars, broad-leaved croton trees, Hagenia abyssinica trees drenched in moss, and whiplike young gray Elgon teaks.
From "The Hot Zone" by Richard Preston
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