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Examples
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Sleek and long, with graceful paws and whip-like tail, she purred, a soft mechanical drill.
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Whether hooked, whip-like, barbed or spiny, those not! penis structures are likely used by male cockroaches to clear out rival spermatophores, according to the august authors of Cockroaches, the book.
Boing Boing 2009
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"It seems like he's away from home a lot," Abdi Farah spars with the whip-like foil of his wit.
ARTINFO: "WORK OF ART" RECAP: China Chow's Side of the Mountain ARTINFO 2010
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It had to be a scorpion, look at its pincers, and its claw-like mouth, and its whip-like tail, I argued.
Judith Acosta, LISW, CHT: Fear and Verbal First Aid for Children 2010
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Because of superior genetics and training from an early age with the Cohe Wand (a whip-like version of a lightsaber), the Paratwa become the most deadly killers ever in human history.
Oldie Book Review: "Liege-Killer" by Christopher Hinz trinfaneb 2008
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Citing the current wildfires raging in the West and in a whip-like government response to the 1988 fire in Yellowstone National Park, which destroyed one-third of the forest there, Wyoming Senator Michael Enzi has attached an earmark to a routine spending bill calling for the installation of 1,000 square mile automatic sprinkler system in America's national treasure.
Bluff The Listener 2010
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It had to be a scorpion, look at its pincers, and its claw-like mouth, and its whip-like tail, I argued.
Judith Acosta, LISW, CHT: Fear and Verbal First Aid for Children 2010
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Higher up the beach low piles of kelp knotted and tangled with whip-like thongs are half-hidden under fine blown sand.
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"It seems like he's away from home a lot," Abdi Farah spars with the whip-like foil of his wit.
ARTINFO: "WORK OF ART" RECAP: China Chow's Side of the Mountain 2010
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"It seems like he's away from home a lot," Abdi Farah spars with the whip-like foil of his wit.
ARTINFO: "WORK OF ART" RECAP: China Chow's Side of the Mountain 2010
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