mosslike

Example Sentences

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The tiny, mosslike plants are extremely sensitive to temperature and moisture and can be used to monitor climate change.

From Washington Post • Jul. 2, 2022

Gradually, the narrator realizes she herself has been contaminated by spores inhaled as she examined a mosslike growth that spelled out gloomy poetry on the walls of a living shaft plunging deep into the earth.

From Seattle Times • Jan. 30, 2014

You do not question the fact; neither did I. I found myself lying prone upon a bed of yellowish, mosslike vegetation which stretched around me in all directions for interminable miles.

From A Princess of Mars by Burroughs, Edgar Rice

Underfoot, the mosslike stuff was soft and yielding, and there was a fragrance in the air unlike anything he had ever smelled.

From Naudsonce by Piper, H. Beam

Before them, beyond a stretch of mosslike lawn and a broad sandy beach, rolled the sea, brilliantly blue, with the waves curling dazzlingly white.

From Elsie Marley, Honey by Gray, Joslyn