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Even Susanne Bartsch , the club queen, was there, wearing a gold mask and a flowy butterfly-like dress.
A Hot Club Time Machine Marshall Heyman 2011
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• Samsung filed a patent for a butterfly-like cell phone built with "doped polysilicon."
Boing Boing 2009
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He straps his pads to his legs in such a way that they rotate when he drops into a butterfly-like stance, allowing him to seal off any shot along the ice.
The Season Henrik Stopped Everything Mike Sielski 2011
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The Papillon derives its name from its characteristic butterfly-like look of the long and fringed hair on the ears.
Jim Luce: Searching NYC for the Perfect Family Apartment Pooch 2010
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The Papillon derives its name from its characteristic butterfly-like look of the long and fringed hair on the ears.
Jim Luce: Searching NYC for the Perfect Family Apartment Pooch Jim Luce 2010
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And in my own book, Salt and Silver, vampires can suck blood... through their butterfly-like proboscis.
Roll Your Own - Anna Katherine Guest Post Victoria Janssen 2010
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John Conway (probably the most experienced pterosaur artist out there) uses both the Paulian model and Mike Habib's model (which is essentially a more curved-wing butterfly-like version of Paul's) neither of which show wings attaching to legs - the legs actually have their own slim, separate membranes.
Life's Time Capsule: Questions about Pterosaurs #1 Peter Bond 2009
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Only thing missing is having a butterfly-like attention span!
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Besides Ophidian, the other non - ine animal-like adjectives I know of are: simian: ape-like batrachian: frog/toad-like chiropterian: bat-like lepidopteran: butterfly-like (why not - ian?)
Breakfast in Bed desayunoencama 2005
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His machine was, however neither bird-like nor butterfly-like, nor had it the wide, lateral expansion of the ordinary aeroplane.
The War in the Air Herbert George 2006
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