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  • adjective Having the form of a brush

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  • adjective resembling a brush

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Examples

  • Flash's hackles stood brushlike but he kept his head bowed just enough beneath the bigger dog's stare to delay the inevitable fight.

    Rowdy Jo Deurbrouck 2011

  • Seaweed sprouted pro - fusely, reaching for the surface, forming brushlike patches.

    Here There Are Monsters 2010

  • His eyes were the same; they were a bit tired and slightly disillusioned, his hair thick and brushlike above his bushy eyebrows.

    Red Wolf Liza Marklund 2010

  • His eyes were the same; they were a bit tired and slightly disillusioned, his hair thick and brushlike above his bushy eyebrows.

    Red Wolf Liza Marklund 2010

  • Kineties (found beneath the surface of the cell membrane at the base of each cilia), are organized in a brushlike formation at the mouth, are used for prey recognition.

    Protozoa 2008

  • Why should he seek to avenge the death of Michel Mauvais, and how consecutive the curse been carried on through all the brushlike order fioricet since the time of Charles Le Sorcier?

    Think Progress » Rehabilitating the System? 2005

  • Otherwise the doctor, a youngish man, gave principally an impression of squareness: his yellow beard was cut square, as was also his brushlike hair; he had a square forehead, and large square hands.

    Two Tales of Old Strasbourg 2003

  • His brushlike hair had grown noticeably grayer in the past few months and his thoughts seemed distant from the turmoil of battle.

    Left to Die Dan Kurzman 1995

  • His brushlike hair had grown noticeably grayer in the past few months and his thoughts seemed distant from the turmoil of battle.

    Left to Die Dan Kurzman 1995

  • The tree went up and up and up, branches and limbs garbed in brushlike clusters of flat needles unlike any leaves they had ever seen

    Villains by Necessity Forward, Eve 1995

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