arrowlike

Example Sentences

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The stream traces back arrowlike to a probable source galaxy some 7.5 billion light-years from Earth that shows no signs of now harboring a giant, feasting black hole at its core.

From Scientific American • Apr. 10, 2023

Mr. Smith came up with a prototype, a golden arrowlike triangle with an overlapping red triangle against a green ground.

From New York Times • Nov. 22, 2016

Until the end of the Second World War, the region—covered by mountains and deep pine forests with towering, arrowlike trees—was part of Germany.

From The New Yorker • May 9, 2016

Most important, with his body angled at 45 degrees to the ground, he could maintain the desired arrowlike stance: head first, arms and legs pointing backward in a V shape called the delta position.

From New York Times • Mar. 15, 2010

We keep on thru the middle of the day, up hills, down hills, and onward, thru trees that turn from the broad-leafed trees on the plains to more needly kinds, taller and more arrowlike.

From "The Knife of Never Letting Go" by Patrick Ness