What is "strawlike"

Usage examples of "strawlike".

Horseblooded, as they called themselves after their close attachment to their animals, were for the most part a ruddy, stocky sort with straight, strawlike blond or red hair, usually caught up in the back like a tail to emulate their beloved horses.

Cygnans turned the sky off, Jameson and Maggie lay side by side on their strawlike bedding for a long time without speaking, holding hands across the intervening space but otherwise not touching.

At his call, a ruddy-cheeked man with a thatch of strawlike hair separated himself from the others.

Withered skin, as brittle as parchment, clung to its bones, and a few wisps of dry, strawlike hair hung to either side.

The ghastly forms, whose rotted flesh and strawlike tendrils of hair mocked the beauty of their victim, were almost upon her.

The floor was covered with a local strawlike grass, and on it a female lay on her side, looking up at the newcomer.

There was a wood frame there filled with a strawlike material, and there were also some carelessly tossed blankets and an enormous stuffed object that might have been a pillow.

When Pris, on the run with the escaped replicants she had thought she was one of, had disguised herself as one of Sebastian’s mechanical creations, a leotarded bridal doll with a veil draped over her strawlike hair, she had finally achieved the nonhuman apotheosis her cracked brain had been seeking all along.