starlike

• “Mrs. Berry's fine eyes -- they had been called "starlike" twenty years before, by romantic young gentlemen -- filled with tears.”

  Fair Harbor

• “My starlike pretense found its final frontier in a room which was anonymous by nature.”

  Simon & Schuster: Fallin’ Up

• “Similarly, the statute refers to “knuckles of any substance” that can be “put to the same use with the same or similar effect” as metallic knuckles; nunchaku, zoobow “or any similar weapon” configured with two sticks connected by rope, chain, or wire; and shuriken or “any similar pointed starlike object intended to injure a person when thrown.””

  The Volokh Conspiracy » What is a zoobow?

• “You take it all for granted and when I look you back it's with a starlike eye shooting its cold and egotistical spear where it can do least damage.”

  The Huffington Post: Athena Andreadis, Ph.D.: Distant Celestial Fires

• “These are punctuated by starlike nodes and wavelike striations in low relief that are polished to a high gloss.”

  The Huffington Post: ArtScene: Current California Exhibitions You Should See

• “The exhibition includes 13 studies in which we see Motherwell grappling with the arrangement of the several symbols that he was eventually to incorporate in the mural: a Torah scroll, Jacob's ladder, the Ten Commandments and a menorah (candelabrum), along with starlike line configurations that supposedly represent diasporic movement.”

  The Wall Street Journal: Abstraction in the Synagogue

• “So Schmidt and his colleagues looked at the other odd radio sources and found more single starlike things, each forty times brighter than the biggest galaxies full of 10 billion stars.”

  Simon & Schuster: A Grand and Bold Thing

• “They named the starlike things quasi-stellar radio sources; later they shortened the name to quasars.”

  Simon & Schuster: A Grand and Bold Thing

• “A Caltech observer named Maarten Schmidt had just figured out that the radio sources made sense only if these starlike things were at highly unstarlike distances.”

  Simon & Schuster: A Grand and Bold Thing

• “The water made his lashes cling to one another, so that they formed starlike sharp points.”

  Simon & Schuster: Clockwork Angel

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