What is "antlike"

Usage examples of "antlike".

The two octospiders sauntered into the center of the chamber, where they inspected the piles of material and then ordered the antlike creatures to begin some kind of construction task.

The only significant break in the activity came when Kepler and Galileo, who tired of watching the alien construction after several hours, inadvertently allowed a ball to bounce across the red paint and into one of the antlike creatures.

Coming toward them was indeed one of the large, antlike creatures with the six long arms.

Twice Richard and Nicole encountered small herds of the large antlike creatures going in the opposite direction, but there were no interactions.

The meat would be efficiently disposed of in ever-smaller bites until the antlike legions scoured the skeletons clean.

Nakitt arrived as a Jerminin soldier, essentially a sexless bipedal antlike creature.

Still, it was easy to see why a vengeful Josich had chosen the antlike Jerminin form for Nakitt.

Down below, amid charred houses, broken glass and smoke‑haze, antlike people were emerging, preparing for peace.

The waitresses came and went in an antlike steam, and all the whiskies came from the same bottle.

I leaned far out of the window and looked down: far down in the street, the cars marched in antlike procession.

There were forty or fifty like him in this work crew, digging with antlike tenacityand antlike resultsinto the flinty, frozen ground.

There were forty or fifty like him in this work crew, digging with antlike tenacity and antlike results into the flinty, frozen ground.

One of the big sailing barges was tied up to the raft, and more workers were going antlike up and down the gangplanks, stowing yet more containers in her open hold.