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Example sentences for "fanlike"

Lexicographically close words:
fanged; fangled; fango; fangs; fanlight; fann; fanne; fanned; fanners; fanning
  1. Almost as if at a signal a red puffball burst among the fanlike growths.

  2. With whirling movement They swing their boughs About their stems: Planes on planes of light and shadow Pass among them, Opening fanlike to fall.

  3. Music is passing far off: Music serenely Is climbing up and vanishing On the long grey stairways of the sky, In fanlike rays of light.

  4. It moves rapidly about continually fluttering its wings and spreading its long fanlike tail.

  5. A superficial growth of vascular tissue radiating in a fanlike manner from the cornea over the surface of the eye.

  6. They are broad, fanlike organs formed of a double membrane and strengthened by chitinous veins or nervures.

  7. A machine for fanning a room, usually a movable fanlike frame covered with canvas, and suspended from the ceiling.

  8. Defn: A superficial growth of vascular tissue radiating in a fanlike manner from the cornea over the surface of the eye.

  9. Defn: A machine for fanning a room, usually a movable fanlike frame covered with canvas, and suspended from the ceiling.

  10. Defn: Having a fanlike tail; belonging to the Eurhipiduræ, a division of Aves which includes all living birds.

  11. The tail of existing birds consists of several more or less consolidated vertebræ which supports a fanlike group of quills to which the term tail is more particularly applied.

  12. Defn: Any gorgonian which branches in a fanlike form, especially Gorgonia flabellum of Florida and the West Indies.

  13. Now, as she stepped over the topmost ledge of the granite stile, there was a fanlike flutter of black and white in her very face, and she stood a moment watching the ill-omened bird wheel and dip behind the thick blossom of the hawthorn hedge.

  14. Suddenly a fanlike stream of light shot out from a point directly above the crimson glow.

  15. The head of the fish formed a mitre above that of the man, whilst its scaly back and fanlike tail fell as a cloak behind, leaving the human limbs and feet exposed.

  16. Assyrian in character and treatment; the others, of an elegant pattern, slightly varied from the usual Assyrian border by the introduction of a fanlike flower in the place of the tulip.

  17. Applehead, glancing often behind him, scowled over the puzzle of that fanlike formation of riders.

  18. Here, then, was the explanation of the fanlike spreading out of the line of Indians.

  19. This is the beautiful effect described by Mr. Spottiswoode as the fanlike arrangement of the bands--the fan opening out at the red end of the spectrum.

  20. If a concave plate be used the bands will dispose themselves in a fanlike arrangement, their divergence depending upon the distance of the slit from the centre of concavity.

  21. They are of very liberal dimensions, and adorned with fanlike tracery of extraordinary finish; and the openings into the great courtyard are filled with glass.

  22. The branches are very large, and spread out into flat or fanlike masses, to near the ground.

  23. The argonaut, as it is called, has eight short arms, the upper pair being largely developed at their tips, forming fanlike or saillike organs.

  24. At the extreme end are seen five paddlelike or fanlike organs (Fig.


  25. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "fanlike" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    deltoid; divergent; flaring; open; outstretched; splay; sprawling; spread; widespread