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  • adjective Resembling a slit.

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Examples

  • The room looked bright green as he looked up through the slitlike pupils.

    The Three Furies Kaza Kingsley 2010

  • There was no light at all down there except what leaked in through the slitlike windows located at ceiling level here and there.

    #33 Killer Connections FRANKLIN W. DIXON 2010

  • There was no light at all down there except what leaked in through the slitlike windows located at ceiling level here and there.

    #33 Killer Connections FRANKLIN W. DIXON 2010

  • There was no light at all down there except what leaked in through the slitlike windows located at ceiling level here and there.

    #33 Killer Connections FRANKLIN W. DIXON 2010

  • β€œIt was clear to see that she was affected by fetal alcohol syndrome: she had the flattened features, the smooth upper lip, and the slitlike eyes of someone with FAS,” Karp tells me when I reach him at his office in Brooklyn.

    Origins Annie Murphy Paul 2010

  • Everyone stared at him, a small brown man with slitlike eyes, a wispy Fu Manchu moustache, and no front teeth.

    The Magician 2005

  • Everyone stared at him, a small brown man with slitlike eyes, a wispy Fu Manchu moustache, and no front teeth.

    The Magician 2005

  • His slitlike eyes made it seem like he was always being blasted by a private sun.

    Foul Lines Jack McCallum 2006

  • His slitlike eyes made it seem like he was always being blasted by a private sun.

    Foul Lines Jack McCallum 2006

  • It was a chaotic, glorious pile of a place, a mishmash of styles and eras, and if Nan could no more have named those styles and eras, she could certainly tell that the blocky stone tower with its slitlike windows that anchored the left was nothing like the mathematical center of more cream-colored brick and tall, narrow windows, which was in turn, nothing at all like the florid wing thrown up on the right.

    The Wizard Of London Lackey, Mercedes 2005

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