What is "veinlike"

Usage examples of "veinlike".

It was mostly transparent, but veinlike strands ran all through it and in its middle was a pulsating pink mass.

Time and fire have altered the main color, yet left the darker, veinlike patterning of the stone intact.

As in a hospital operating room, technicians in starchy white uniforms and lint-free nylon caps bent over their patient with delicate instruments, adjusting its miles of veinlike electrical lines and sensitive eardrums.

Above the treetopsthe sky was split with veinlike flashes of lightning but the lightning must havebeen miles away for thunder came belatedly, a low desultory muttering.

Three little buds of metal seemed embedded in the heel of his right hand, connected to the veinlike mass of wires under his sleeve, running down his side to a little pack on his belt.

Above the treetops the sky was split with veinlike flashes of lightning but the lightning must have been miles away for thunder came belatedly, a low desultory muttering.

The snowdrops poked their tiny blades through holes they made in the ice, and the only other signs of life were the faint, veinlike trails of the snoweels in some of the deeper drifts.

The rear section, blood red and larger than the rest, was egg-shaped with an underbelly, if one could call it that, lined with veinlike courses.