snakelike

NASA’s La Cañada Flintridge-based Jet Propulsion Laboratory built this snakelike machine with the goal of one day using it to explore difficult-to-reach places on other planets, moons or asteroids.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 28, 2026

Soon Marshall’s tailrace was universally acknowledged to be the doorway to the Mother Lode, “a snakelike vein of quartz-encapsulated gold that extended for more than 150 miles along the western edge” of the Sierra Nevada.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 9, 2026

This multipronged approach revealed that while other reptiles have evolved many snakelike traits -- 25 different groups of lizards also lost their limbs, for instance -- only snakes experienced this level of explosive diversification.

From Science Daily ● Feb. 22, 2024

“And it’s hard to think of an actor with a naturally hungrier look than Ron Cephas Jones, the tall, beanpole-thin, snakelike actor who portrays the title character.”

From Seattle Times ● Aug. 22, 2023

She rolled her hands over the dough, working it out toward both its ends, until eventually it was long and snakelike.

From Anya and the Dragon by Sofiya Pasternack