What is "shelflike"

Usage examples of "shelflike".

In form, they were huge mushrooms, their ten broad heads crowded with narrow corridors, missile bays, beam generators, storerooms, and sleeping quarters, cubicles equipped with shelflike bunks.

A chin, so squarely shelflike that it might have been designed to compensate for the missing shelves of bone above the eyes.

A couple of tall, shelflike tables, skillfully made, offered space for reading and writing, and there were some books, stored on even higher shelves.

At three spans or so below the surface of the water they reached a sharp overhang and felt along this shelflike projection with their feet, almost walking along it, until it dropped off again.

As he caught his breath and looked around him, he realized the wall at this level was honeycombed with shelflike openings-burial niches-all filled with skeletons.

As Kate half walked, half allowed gravity do the job, she encountered a narrow shelflike outcropping.

They lay one above the other on shelflike, fold-down bunks, reading a manual on space warfare as it scrolled slowly up their wall screen.

The movement commenced again, drifting toward a real rock beneath a shelflike overhang.

Chapter 87 WE CLUSTERED TOGETHER on the shelflike summit of a rocky outcropping.

Inside, thank the gods, the structures were warm and cozy, with shelflike bunks along the walls and mats on the floor in front of the hearth, each room capable of sleeping twelve or fifteen soldiers in a pinch.

There was a shelflike cot arrangement, and a toilet, and a floor with speckled linoleum, so much like the linoleum in Langhorne Memorial Hospital that I wondered if the same contractor had installed both.

Only at intervals between the flanks, at lakeside, were there small patches of land sloping down to the water, and there were a few shelflike meadows visible on some of the mountainsides.

A narrow stair of handholds had been niched into the rock, extending upward to a shelflike threshold ten feet above their heads.