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  • adjective Resembling string or a piece of string.

Etymologies

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string +‎ -like

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Examples

  • The mass, either because it is pressing against these stringlike fibers or because it has consumed them, is the reason he cannot smell.

    Between Expectations Md Meghan Maclean Weir 2011

  • A set of congenital birth defects, ABS takes many forms, but the disfigurements are probably caused when the face, a limb, fingers, or toes are trapped by stringlike amniotic bands in the womb.

    Manifesting Michelangelo Joseph Pierce Farrell 2011

  • A set of congenital birth defects, ABS takes many forms, but the disfigurements are probably caused when the face, a limb, fingers, or toes are trapped by stringlike amniotic bands in the womb.

    Manifesting Michelangelo Joseph Pierce Farrell 2011

  • The mass, either because it is pressing against these stringlike fibers or because it has consumed them, is the reason he cannot smell.

    Between Expectations Md Meghan Maclean Weir 2011

  • Dangling from around its edges, harder to see but still visible, was an array of stringlike tentacles that wavered constantly in the winds on high.

    Darkness of the Light David_Peter 2007

  • DNA is a stringlike molecule made up of paired beads called nucleotides.

    mjh's blog — 2005 — September 2005

  • Waterfalls could be seen everywhere: tall thin stringlike falls, short squat ones, even horseshoe-shaped ones.

    Seven Deadly Wonders Matthew Reilly 2006

  • Waterfalls could be seen everywhere: tall thin stringlike falls, short squat ones, even horseshoe-shaped ones.

    Seven Deadly Wonders Matthew Reilly 2006

  • Waterfalls could be seen everywhere: tall thin stringlike falls, short squat ones, even horseshoe-shaped ones.

    Seven Deadly Wonders Matthew Reilly 2006

  • Wispy, stringlike vines or roots appeared, and the deeper the group walked into the tunnel, the closer and closer the vines descended.

    The Welkening Gregory Spencer 2004

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