What is "insectile"

Usage examples of "insectile".

The air souring and, like badness in milk, particles of matter coagulating from nothing, clots of rank aether aggregated into organising shape, and then there was a moving insectile thing made of scabbed nothing and sudden shade that twisted in the air as if suspended by thread and glimmered visible and invisible and then was unquestionably there, a hook-legged thing in the colours of rot, as large as a man.

He nodded toward the angular, insectile shadow in the darkness, more monsterlike than ever in his ring of electronic trilithons.

Behind the main display, a towering, vermillion, insectile form sorted through charts and rapped furiously on a touchpad.

The eight travelers looked insectile themselves in the last low-altitude phase, with their masks on.

Though Eliza cannot read the Hebrew, these letters lack the insectile coldness of the temple prayerbook, reminding her more of trees than beetles.

Flattening to the three-inch oak slabs, he could hear, with the hyperacute senses of a wizard, the insectile scratching of broomstraw and holystone beyond, the whisper of a voice speaking words of dissolution, of breaking.

The Mongols, carapaced, bristling with weapons, looked more insectile than human.

In the counting room you see three men, counting money under the glassy stare of the cameras they can see, the insectile gazes of the tiny cameras they cannot see.

She had backed a few meters away from Sacagawea, who stood in the center of the chamber, gesticulating wildly with his spindly, insectile limbs.

Dozens of coralskippers were being hauled down into the boras by grappler ships—all except for the poisoned vessel, which six unpiloted insectile craft were tugging back up the gravity well.