What is "lifelike"

Usage examples of "lifelike".

Startlingly lifelike, the work showed Medea dropping the bloody chunks of the brothers she had murdered into the sea to slow her father down and enable her and Jason to escape.

Chief Vestals since the time of the first Aemilia, lifelike wax masks encased in miniature temples, each perched on a costly pedestal.

Each had been cleverly stained in lighter and darker tones, in nearly lifelike detail.

When they left the department store she found herself carrying the largest and most lifelike baby doll she had ever seen.

With one huge hand he seized the lifelike object round its neck and dragged it along after him, its legs dangling gruesomely against the pavements.

Of the three in the painting, as lifelike as all of them were, she stood out, captured more completely than her husband or child.

Beautifully done and amazingly lifelike, it was a much-photographed portrait of Brian Daulton, his wife, Christine-and a wide-eyed and sweet-smiled three-year-old Amanda.

On her first visit to Waveney Hall, she had presented Olivia with a single, perfect red rose, still lifelike yet frozen in a single moment for all time.

The molded or carved top appeared to be the torso of a woman, complete with very lifelike facial characteristics.

I turned to the back, it opened on a page that held a lifelike diagram of a man and woman united together not unlike Deva and her lover that day in the barn.

Extremely lifelike in detail, its total length from tip to base measured the length of my foot.

Adorned with hat and cloak, the skeleton contrivance made a perfect replica of The Shadow that became wonderfully lifelike when Cranston called down to Myra to revolve the rod.

People talked about faces that looked good in the flesh but not in images, or good in lifelike paintings but not on a screen, or faces that looked unattractive in repose but quite stunning when animated, or merely plain until the person smiled.

On the coloured floors of the royal quarters there were representations of the thickets of the Great River with their plants and animals, all drawn wonderfully lifelike and framed with wavy lines or spirals of many colours.

Cavius and Kidogo thought that their images were very lifelike, but insisted that Pandion had drawn his own portrait poorly.