What is "toylike"

Usage examples of "toylike".

Dodecahedral shapes swarmed over its flanks, reduced by distance to toylike specks, fast-moving, intent, purposeful.

Madeleine and Ben watched the black hole and its enigmatic artifact recede to a toylike glimmer.

It was uneven to his vision and very small, as the peak of a stupendous mountain seems toylike from afar.

Geros saw a rider, toylike with the distance, gallop his mount to the rear of the archers.

The picture was replaced by a triptych of bright toylike geometric shapes rotating and counter-rotating in intricate patterns like the mechanism of a transparent clock.

Restitution, before Evander had conquered the surrounding countries and the Autarchy established its governors and their Militia, puppet masters holding the strings of a tamed and toylike class that now ruled solely in name.

At the top they stopped to gaze down at the survey vehicle, already looking toylike in the gorge below.

The city seemed to fall back and diminish to toylike size in a matter of seconds.

From where he was standing, leaning with one foot up on the bottom rail and his elbows planted on the top of the fence that encircled his cottage and enclosed his back yard, Bader could look down the hill, through the gray shadows of the barren trees, and into the gully, all the way to the edge of the creek-- a curling silver thread--where Roy and Darcy and Lee, diminished and toylike, worked.

I kicked his other hand loose from the sled, sending him spinning away slowly, head over heels toward the sun, a bulky white figure growing toylike and clever against the black ground of his future, like one of those little mechanical monkeys that spins round and round on a plastic bar.

The Bowls were an early, rudimentary version of Mobile Armor and were toylike compared to Zaks.

The fax machine had begun to spit out new designs: tentacled robots capable of leaving a damaged limb behind, and soon afterward, toylike robots too small and fast and numerous to hold at bay.

Carol drove along, watching the jagged coastline roll by, the white rocks at the edge of a cove, the toylike boats bobbing near the shore.

The ship seems toylike against the unending expanse of the ocean beyond the northern tip of Recluce.

The toylike sound of the little foreign engine whistle was somehow startling, as French train whistles always are to Americans who hear them again after becoming accustomed to the deep-throated howl of American locomotives.