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- adjective Resembling or characteristic of
wind .
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Examples
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Within the windlike sighing there was a human voice—the cry of a child.
Do Comets Dream? S. P. Somtow 2003
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The elephant makes a vocal sound of a windlike sort by the mouth alone, unaided by the trunk, just like the sound of a man panting or sighing; but, if it employ the trunk as well, the sound produced is like that of a hoarse trumpet.
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An'desha hadn't quite realized until now how much sound the gryphons produced-like the constant click of talons on stone, the windlike bellows-sound of their breathing and the rustle of feathers.
Storm Breaking Lackey, Mercedes 1996
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An'desha hadn't quite realized until now how much sound the gryphons produced-like the constant click of talons on stone, the windlike bellows-sound of their breathing and the rustle of feathers.
Storm Breaking Lackey, Mercedes 1996
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She had only to wait, as she was waiting now, and it would come in the windlike whisper of a tiger's rush through the grass behind her ....
—And Devious the Line of Duty Tom Godwin 1947
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Only a windlike chant would do -- something with an undertone of human despair, outsoared by brave, savage flights of invincible soul-hope -- great virile singing man-cries, winged as the starlight, weird as space -- Whitman sublimated, David's soul poured out in symphony.
The River and I John G. Neihardt 1927
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I have written before of Ben Cohen, with his eternal poring and humming over the scores of great masters; of the timber-yard at Canning Town, for ever changing and for ever the same, devouring forests with the eternal windlike rush of saws, slide of gigantic planes; practical and chill; wrapped in river-fogs, and yet exotic with the dust of cedar, camphor, paregoric.
The Best British Short Stories of 1922 Various 1915
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Their wavering limbs borne on the windlike stream,
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The volleys directed against them had had a seeming windlike effect.
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The volleys directed against them had had a seeming windlike effect.
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