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archlike

a. Having the form of an arch alt. Having the form of an arch

Usage examples of "archlike".

Before them, perhaps a hundred yards distant, was a huge archlike structure.

It was an oval-shaped chamber cut into a mound of earth with its floors flagged with stones while granite blocks lined the walls and were placed so that they formed a natural archlike structure across the entire roof.

He saw above him, in the clearness of the storm-scoured waning day, what appeared to be a golden structure rising from the summit, its shape a reassuring and infinitely calming sweep of dual archlike parabolas.

That darkness, too, ran down to create a lower, more archlike shape, black as a cutout piece of night.

He unlocked an outer door and went through an archlike hallway that led him to a tiny courtyard.

Above their heads, the domed-shaped ceiling has grown rows of needlelike teeth, the limestone formations creating majestic, archlike partitions and bizarre, jagged sculptures of rock.

At least some of these changes involved Donatello, who was commissioned to decorate the sacristy with a complex program that included painted stucco reliefs in the eight circular roundels and a set of bronze doors with two large archlike reliefs above them.

A portion of the rock face disappeared, exposing a rough, archlike entrance.

In the wall ahead was an archlike opening through which the linear glide continued to move.