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gluelike

adjective as in pasty

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Example Sentences

Each sample had a binding component like plant resin or gum, which have also been used for their water-repelling and gluelike properties since antiquity.

In the environment, he said, they form a spore with a gluelike substance that adheres to the damaged parts of a plant or, in the case of horses, a wound or insect bite.

Consuming a gluelike blob of anything caked in sand and coastal debris is a good opportunity for an animal to choke, and potentially, to die.

From Slate

Next to her, her sister, Sandi Kennedy, is carefully applying sizing — a gluelike substance — to a chandelier to which she will later attach delicate silver-colored leafing.

But polystyrene naturally forms a thin, gluelike nano-layer of water on its surface, which traps the ROS.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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