Example Sentences

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Its 100 billion neurons are connected by 100 trillion wirelike fibers, all squeezed into three pounds of squishy flesh lodged below a helmet of skull.

From Scientific American • Dec. 16, 2022

When the weather warms up, the rosette rises up and expands, and from its center emerges a wirelike stem dressed in silver hairs.

From Washington Post • Nov. 11, 2018

The albino scurried in and out, bringing more things: wirelike extensions, stringy and endless.

From "The Princess Bride" by William Goldman

And she held out a gauntleted hand, the clasp of which corroborated the suggestion of wirelike strength in that lithely straight body.

From Then I'll Come Back to You by Evans, Larry

The dry, inert bark, the rough, wirelike twigs change but little from summer to winter.

From Under the Maples by Burroughs, John