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How to use needlelike in a sentence

Looking for sentences and phrases with the word needlelike? Here are some examples.

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The point itself is a massive coral sand bluff that narrows to a reef as it slips needlelike into the sea amid waves and colliding currents.
The second tarp covering the cart is dusted with tiny needlelike ice crystals.
Spicules, or needlelike structures, of lime embedded in the polyp body provide a firm but flexible support.
The leaves usually are large and evergreen in tropical species, deciduous in temperate species, and needlelike or scalelike in desert species.
Morphine sulfate is a white, odourless crystalline powder or needlelike crystals.
Unique for the spectacular stalactites and stalagmites and the formation of needlelike crystals of aragonite, among the oldest of Europe.
These beasts often have enormous mouths and needlelike fangs.
The needlelike leaves are bright green in summer but turn golden in autumn before they fall.
Seconds after partners position their structures for simultaneous sperm transfer, the slugs each insert a second organ, a needlelike stylet.
Erica Perennial Erica is grown for small, needlelike leaves that become showered in small flowers.
Long ago, local bushmen had discovered that the needlelike leaves of the Aspalathus linearis bush made a tasty, aromatic brew.
Both plants possess needlelike leaves, are endemic to this subantarctic flower region and are used to create mildly sweet herbal infusions.
The somewhat wetter Mojave Desert contains extensive stands of Joshua trees, which are unique in their appearance, with multiple arms ending in bunches of needlelike leaves.
Each of these image-guided thermal ablation procedures involves the use of needlelike applicators that are placed directly into tumours by using imaging guidance.
It has a needlelike tower rising above a 23-foot-8-inch-wide street front.
Next, the 2-mm alligator grasper is punched through the dermis in needlelike fashion under direct visualization in the location as just described.
As piercing-sucking insects, they use needlelike stylets to insert saliva into plant tissues and open a pathway to ingest fluids critical to the plant's survival.
Needlelike filiform papillae with smal size and high density were known as Type I placed in apex.
Examples from Classical Literature
A hundred feet to the left was a wild thicket of ground thorns, their needlelike tips bristling.
The edges of the joints are also fringed with needlelike thorns which are dangerous to handle.
You can see the projectiles as they near the target, needlelike things that seem to flee with the speed of light.
Leaves generally very fine and needlelike, and with a central vascular bundle.
They are covered with needlelike thorns and their sting is extremely painful and annoying.
Every one was healthily tired, though, and all the needlelike thrusts of the insects could not keep the girls awake.
The gendarme, Durand, also sat down, twisting his mustache into needlelike points.
Notice how prickly and needlelike on all sides these cedar branches are.
Several grasses have leaves which end in sharp or needlelike points.
The crystals are long and needlelike when it evaporates down.
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