What is "buglike"

Usage examples of "buglike".

The view was layered like a cake, in colors almost rich enough to eat, the sleek brown of the river still several miles wide at this point, dark and thick as gravy, teeming with traffic, the motorized longboats quick and buglike, the coal barges, the rafts heaped with yellowy rods of rattan cane, then the lurid green hills and, above, the sky virtually vibrating with blue fire.

I realized that all the Strums were listening in to the dialogue and probably my private thoughts as well, and that I was showing reprehensible, almost buglike uncertainty.

Successful Men at the wheels, buglike foreign sports cars weaving in and out of traffic, their goggled drivers ignoring mere stock cars with a vast superiority.

He was not even a predatory insect, however buglike a social worker had once made him feel.

The interior of the passenger compartment was red-lighted, giving the vehicle a menacing buglike appearance, an image reinforced by two whip antennas mounted above the cab.

However, as I observed those buglike shapes squirm, I became very disturbed at the idea that they were about to touch me.

The crowd of aliens parted, and one of them carried forward a small one, even more buglike than its elders.

It blasted out of her, her eyes wide and buglike, her arms flapping about, her legs seizing up.

Great indeed was the fiend's surprise when the mighty cat leaped straight up, crossing thirty feet in a mere instant, great claws hooking fast onto the buglike torso.

That's as true of the buglike creatures here as it is of the more advanced forms.

The silvery buglike creature had just learned that the long route the Bay of Vessali normally took, which swung out and passed briefly through her native hex before swinging back in toward Pyron, had been altered without warning.

Despite Hollywood's propensity for casting extraterrestrials as little green men, astrobiologists and science buffs all agreed that given the sheer numbers and adaptability of earth's insects, extraterrestrial life would in all probability be buglike if it were ever discovered.

When they were out of its sight, he felt himself relaxing and moving closer to Kitai out of reflex— as different as the other boy might be, he was more familiar, more friendly than that buglike creature entombing the crow within the glowing wax.