What is "cloudlike"

Usage examples of "cloudlike".

Simeon directed her camera to a spacescape of a battered scout ship traveling against the distant cloudlike mist of an ion storm that partially overlaid the corona of a star like a veil.

Her mind pictured the wind as pale, violet-white wisps of cloudlike material, and she imagined herself collecting the wisps within the exaggerated reach of her gesturing hands and molding them into a flat sheet so thin and so swift-moving that it could slice her enemies in two.

The rays were fractured as they were blocked by zombies, absorbed by the blackness of the wraiths, captured and held in the eerie cloudlike presences of the specters, or fragmented by the bones of skeletons.

The top of his head was mottled and as bald as a bullet, but a cloudlike wreath of wispy white hair floated about his ears.

Her hair was dark and soft, so that it floated cloudlike to her shoulders.

She was only an exaggeration of what the other girls all knew they could expect themselves to one day become, and so, embarrassed and ashamed of their own fascination, they stole glances, took furtive glimpses of her, were irresistibly drawn to the sight of her bare flesh--of the dark smudge of hair in her armpits and on her ankles and between her legs, of her milky, blue-veined breasts floating, cloudlike, in the big cups of her thick-strapped rubber and wire and nylon bra, of the firm mound of her belly, her rounded shoulders, the damp doughy creases in her neck, her meaty arms, her bare skin, clear and creamy--as she changed back into her school clothes again at the end of the physical education class.

Sister Inge, who caught it, celebrated it, and turned into a gull, not a dove, but in any case into the Holy Ghost, let it take the form of a gull, descending cloudlike upon the flesh to feast the Pentecost.

I had leaned my head against the wooden back of the bench, and from there I watched the cloudlike mountains on the other shore.

The only contact he'd had with such cloudlike visages had been with the wraiths that had killed so many of his brothers in the graveyard.

But that wasn't easy when every movement made her sink farther into the cloudlike softness.