snakelike
IPA: snˈeɪkɫaɪk
adjective
- Resembling a snake; long, thin and flexible, or waving about in a snake-like manner; snaky.
- Characteristic of a snake.
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Examples of "snakelike" in Sentences
- Her fingers slithered snakelike under my breechcloth.
- But the clerk was calling the snakelike police officer this very moment, probably.
- When incorporated into a cell's membranes, the snakelike EFA molecules add fluidity and flexibility to the membrane.
- All the time he was chanting the old man kept up a kind of snakelike movement in his body, which seemed to fit the chant and make it part of him.
- She approached more cautiously, and the cub had full opportunity to observe her lean, snakelike body, and her head, erect, eager, and snake-like itself.
- He received no applause, and he squirmed through the ropes, snakelike, into the arms of his seconds, who help ed him to the floor and supported him down the aisle into the crowd.
- We bank right and cross over a breathtaking canyon where the Chuitna tumbles over huge boulders and bends snakelike between red bluffs and around little islands covered with spruce, and I think to myself that this is one of the loveliest places I've ever seen.
- Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, released in 2007, almost finished him off, as his hesitant courtship of a fellow Hogwarts student (the demure Cho Chang) proceeded simultaneously with the onslaughts of a rampant snakelike essence from within his own brain.
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