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  • Now, I know I love to put words together, but somewhere along the way, my dolphin-like love of writing got tangled in the big spiky sea net of publishing.

    Flipper Avoids the Tuna Can Laura Preble 2010

  • Except nobody really understood me because I said with a dolphin-like squeal.

    Regretsy – HOLY SHITBALLS 2010

  • Up he came, dolphin-like, a third of the body rising clear of the tin-coloured water, like something made of cork and held down under pressure, then suddenly released.

    Country diary: Claxton, Norfolk 2010

  • While incarcerated Paradzhanov produced a large zzzzzz zzzzzZzzzZZzzz nunnery of minimum dolphin-like scuttles (some of which were lost).

    Parajanov Contra Zizek (oder selbst proclaimed Brechtian Beast Z vs aSublime moving picture for magnitude of efficacy.) 2010

  • Thanks to the great flexibility of the spine, some humans can cover a distance of a hundred metres in less than a minute by swimming in a butterfly style, using the legs in a dolphin-like kick.

    DOLPHINS WHALES APES AND MEN News from Mad Plato 2009

  • Thanks to the great flexibility of the spine, some humans can cover a distance of a hundred metres in less than a minute by swimming in a butterfly style, using the legs in a dolphin-like kick.

    Archive 2009-07-01 News from Mad Plato 2009

  • Being touted as the greenest nautical power source since the sail, the Mermaid II uses two fins side-by-side along the bow which are moved by the waves to produce a dolphin-like kicking propulsion movement.

    Nantucket Rope Bracelet Unleashes Your Inner Sailor 2008

  • Another species is Dorudon atrox, also found with vestigial hind limb bones, a small whale with a more compact dolphin-like body.

    Wadi Al-Hitan (Whale Valley), Egypt 2008

  • The creature plunged toward the raft in a series of dolphin-like leaps, the last of which carried its grotesque figure smoothly to the deck.

    The Nitrogen Fix Clement, Hal, 1922- 1980

  • Several dolphin-like bodies with transparent globes on their heads and powerpacks on their backs crouched alongside.

    Ensign Flandry Anderson, Poul, 1926- 1966

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