What is "paperlike"

Usage examples of "paperlike".

I hesitate to call the material a photograph -it was an image on some kind of paperlike substance.

They got the first clue from the fact that every one of the sixteen types of packages--whether of a clear polymer wrapping that was curiously both brittle and tough, or a metal canister--bore a label made of some paperlike material, each with a picture of something--presumably the contents--in a bowl.

He had taken a sandwich that someone had given him, but the rye bread and paperlike sliced turkey had stuck in his throat.

They were in the control room, ripping apart the machinery with the curiosity of children, wondering at the strange weakness of the paperlike metal, not realizing that, on the world where it was fabricated, it was sufficiently strong for any strain the builders could put upon it.

Under the intense heat of the explosion, the black paint on the railing had broken out into dry, paperlike flakes.

Of late a dear little coquettish high-heeled pair of outdoor shoes with thin, paperlike soles, bought by Daisy for her trip to London, had ended the row.

He removed a sheet of paperlike material, upon which was written the location of the agreed-upon rendezvous Mofad had established before he had ever left Conolt IV.

Those instructions were set out on a piece of blotter paperlike a presentation.

He strolled from the middle of the chamber to the farthest slab, looked into the face of the dead Cardassian as if to find something scratched in the paperlike skin, then came back again.