sawlike

Example Sentences

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His thin sawlike features wore an expectant expression, and his eyes were lightened by a look of cunning and greed as he occasionally glanced down the road.

From Harper's Round Table, July 16, 1895 by Various

The female usually has an ovipositor containing a pair of sawlike organs with which she makes incisions in the leaves or stems of plants in which to lay the eggs.

From The Gutenberg Webster's Unabridged Dictionary Section S by Project Gutenberg

Far inland, and tinged light-blue by distance, rose the sharp, jagged, and sawlike crests of El-Sharaf, under which the Hajj-caravan wends its weary way, thus escaping the mountains which dip perpendicularly into the sea.

From The Land of Midian — Volume 1 by Burton, Richard Francis, Sir

He was not a large dog—only about as high as a chair seat; he had mottled lips, too, and sharp, sawlike teeth.

From A Gentleman Vagabond and Some Others by Smith, Francis Hopkinson

Thousands of dark tendrils with fine, sawlike spines latched onto our bodies.

From Stamped Caution by Gallun, Raymond Z.