dreamlike

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These insects can generate exceptionally loud sounds by rapidly buckling and unbuckling drumlike structures on their bodies called tymbals.

From Scientific American • Jan. 10, 2022

The smaller chambers feature instruments such as drumlike tubes and chimes.

From Washington Post • Jun. 27, 2017

The camera ushers us inside the coffin—not a rectangular box but an amazing drumlike cylinder, clearly not Christian, in which the corpse is seated, and which is soon set alight.

From The New Yorker • Dec. 22, 2016

The camera swoops in for a close-up of Dicky’s comically startled face as he yells “What?,” the tight, drumlike skin punctuated by the dark O of his mouth.

From New York Times • Dec. 31, 2010

The buttons of his waistcoat strain to confine his drumlike girth.

From "Orphan Train" by Christina Baker Kline