What is "torpedolike"

Usage examples of "torpedolike".

Narrow, torpedolike fish that Pete identified as wahoo were marked the same way.

The diesel made a scant wake, but enough to hide the myriad of tiny bubbles that closed the gap toward his rudder, then disappeared torpedolike beneath his portside rail as he lounged at the tiller.

He ducked in time to catch a glimpse of the torpedolike shape disappearing around a corallike corner of the base.

Colin saw the slick, gray, torpedolike creature only twenty or thirty feet from the stern.

There was a thump and Blade saw two large torpedolike objects fall away, turning slowly.

Small, torpedolike objects had been hurled into the room from the opposite end of the corridor.

He was grateful, of course, but still he could not hide his disappointment in not being allowed to accompany me, which was evidenced by an invidious comparison he drew between the ceiling of the Sikorsky and that of the old crate, as he had affectionately dubbed the great torpedolike rocket that was to bear me out into space in a few hours.

But Moander had placed it in a torpedolike vehicle and set the vehicle on a course which should plunge it into a great star near the point where the giant ship had emerged here.

From his low vantage point, he was not able to see the water underneath, but there were several shapes there that seemed to be lying in the water, one of them a torpedolike structure so long and sinister looking that Kenlon felt a chill along his spine.

Connel checked the loading of each of the chambers, making certain that each of the ten-foot-long torpedolike projectiles was properly secured in its blasting cradle.

But its torpedolike shape served it well, for it moved faster than just about anything else afloat.

Sensor screens showed the small torpedolike generators descending into the clouds.