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  • adjective Resembling a fog or some aspect of it.

Etymologies

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fog +‎ -like

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Examples

  • But there are no characters - no figures or movement at all other than the manipulating hands, modulating light and occasional drifts of foglike cigarette smoke.

    The city as artifice, created as you watch Jason Edward Kaufman 2011

  • Before he could get his bearings and pull himself out of the vision — to go where? — there was a foglike swirl and he stood in front of a hide-covered hut, watching helplessly as five rough-garbed soldiers dragged a dark-haired girl from the building.

    The Gauntlet Thrown Chapter Thirty Seven xcpublishing 2009

  • The foglike swirl was so thick that it blocked any view of the big amoeba.

    Delta Anomaly Rick Barba 2010

  • The foglike swirl was so thick that it blocked any view of the big amoeba.

    Delta Anomaly Rick Barba 2010

  • Grady pointed through a glass window to several men in a sealed test chamber that was filled with a foglike haze.

    Golden State 2010

  • The foglike swirl was so thick that it blocked any view of the big amoeba.

    Delta Anomaly Rick Barba 2010

  • He felt foglike terror as he walked down the midway, because pretty soon they would spot him and it would be all over.

    Blaze Bachman, Richard 2007

  • For more than a hundred vingts above the falls and for a good four vingts below the cataract, the river was ice-free, running rapidly over the rocky shallows, with foglike vapor rising from the water.

    Darkness Modesitt, L. E. 2003

  • The ground shivered, and a light and acrid mist drifted from the foglike clouds that had formed over the battle area.

    Colors of Chaos Modesitt, L. E. 1999

  • Leyladin glanced toward the Market Square, dark and wreathed in a foglike mist.

    Colors of Chaos Modesitt, L. E. 1999

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