snakelike
Example Sentences
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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
Lean and sinewy, with snakelike flexibility, Paulekas contorted without restraint on the dance floor.
From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 22, 2022
His next work, “BOB,” was not merely unpredictable in this way but arguably sentient: a quasi-intelligent computer program that assumed physical form as an enormous, red, ever-changing, snakelike creature behind a wall of glass.
From New York Times • Aug. 27, 2021
This time, snakelike in its precision, it encircled the tree.
From "Son" by Lois Lowry
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