What is "ribbonlike"

Usage examples of "ribbonlike".

Cautiously Elminster forged ahead, turning over bones with his staff and sending more than one rock viper into a swift, ribbonlike retreat.

She gaped in wonder at the sheer elegance and deceptive simplicity of the coiled, ribbonlike structure, which appeared to glow with its own transcendent light.

As far up as her knees these were closely bound to the leg with narrow ribbonlike strings on which were strung large beads in a multitude of brilliant crystallike colors.

And then he raised his pale ribbonlike arms and allowed the opening movements of his great unperformed dance to ripple down those arms in the sine waves that have always been the densest form of Vlhani communication.

And how could a twist of ribbonlike metal bring them in without any action on their part?

It had risen again and now came in sharp blasts that lifted the ribbonlike banners away from the walls and set them to warring in midair, one side of the street against the other.

Most wore their long black hair greaseda nd mudded into red-dyed, ribbonlike strands an inch wide, laid back over the head and behind the ears to hang almost to their heels, and stood as erect as palace guards.

Around his temples and forehead was a steel crown from which ran a thick, ribbonlike band of copper.

Its long, brown ribbonlike fronds grew just below the surface right across the width of the river.

A single strip of cloth which clung to her torso then flared and flowed into a long skirt, it forked around her neck, producing two ribbonlike tassels that trailed from each shoulder.

Two of them broke the surface with ribbonlike dorsal fins that were two meters long, stretched across sleek spines.

Christ crucified and a great lion surrounded by interlaced, ribbonlike ornament, occupy dominant positions.

He would then stand over me, the two bands extending from me, ribbonlike, in his grasp, taking more bids.

The garment she had been working on, ribbonlike strips of cloth in brilliant colors .

Streamers, ribbonlike in their length and light weight, stirred in breezes that swirled them outward through the air.