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scissorlike

a. Resembling or characteristic of scissors.

Usage examples of "scissorlike".

He could just close two fingers on the handle scissorlike, but as he began to pull it toward him, his aching hand spasmed and knocked the knife to the floor.

The object that had just landed, a large white sphere, had extended a pair of strange, scissorlike contraptions from its midsection, and was cutting itself out of a multilayered bag that had obviously cushioned its impact on the surface.

They were seized and jerked out, to be instantly and brutally snipped by sudden, scissorlike appendages, then whirled into a mouth like a tangle of razor blades and broken china, a mouth that chewed and cut and spat.

Davlin spun just in time so that the scissorlike claws fastened on his pack, ripping the fabric but not touching his skin.

At last, with the hint of some strange, scissorlike action, the shape moved to the side, and Galen passed by, nearly brushing against it.

The slip-jaws maneuver was named for the scissorlike mandibles of the Kashyyyk slash-spider.