What is "stringlike"

Usage examples of "stringlike".

Only when examined at the most minute distance scales, far smaller than anything our present technology can access, is their true stringlike character apparent.

A stream of stringlike material shot from her finger, wrapping itself around the little dragon, sticking to him and burying the wood sprite as well.

In the provinces, French cats are usually low-bred animals, with plebeian heads and tails, the stringlike appearance of the latter not being improved by cropping.

Poliziano, of the heavy features and coarse black hair worn stringlike down over his ears and covering part of the rough skin, moistened his overly red, projecting underlip.

Culverson, wearing red goggles to preserve his night vision in case the ship needed to come to periscope depth, stared at the sonar screen, straining to find a submarine in the mass of stringlike indications of random ocean noises and biologies.

Together they wove the roots loosely around the suraku, Sandry working with the thin, stringlike tendrils, Briar with the heavier tree-roots.

One was a circle of leather stringlike a boot shoelace with a small sack attachedand the other was a thin sheaf of twenty-dollar bills, crisp and new, bound about by a rubber band.

Through an open window she saw the long stringlike fronds of a nut tree dripping in the downpour, and for an awful moment she thought that she was back in the jungle.

Esk reached up and plucked a plumb that was bobbing below a stringlike twig.

They held Hines, cursing, his old frail bones and his stringlike muscles for the time inherent with the fluid and supple fury of a weasel.