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How to use apelike in a sentence

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

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Giant and apelike in appearance, it would be easy to mistake Bigfoot for a hairy tree or NBA player.
The hominin fossil record does not include a truly intermediate form between an apelike and a humanlike body.
The scientists described the ancient hominoids as small-brained, tree-climbing, meat-eating midgets that were both apelike and human in appearance.
The bone fragments, thought to be 3.4 to 2.9 million years old, belong to Australopithecus afarensis, an apelike creature that may have been an ancestor of modern humans.
These bones, found with skull bones, are still apelike in some aspects, but it is almost certain that the individual from which they came had dexterous hands.
Hitherto, the explanation for this shift from the smaller skulls and wider pelvises of man's apelike ancestors has been a shift from a vegetable-based diet to a meat-based one.
In addition, the mosaic of humanlike and apelike characteristics displayed by these two specimens of A. sediba indicated that this species was unlike any other known hominin.
Examples from Classical Literature
On the second table lay a twisted, distorted thing, an apelike body with which fate had played grotesque pranks.
By the strong amber light of the sun flare Nelson had a vision of the last two warriors swinging in apelike agility to the ground.
The apelike Pascual grumbled, but loyally he followed his arrogant and imperious camarada.
The big, apelike thug who was holding the shotgun had a chance to pull the trigger once more, but he wasn't aiming very well.
He found the apelike bodyguard stretched out on a bunk, a vacant smile on his face.
The fellow was short and stout, with an unusually low and degraded countenance and apelike arms.
With a final scream of jungle invective and an apelike grimace at his departing foe, Tarzan continued along his way.
The apelike Pascual, his face a study in curiosity, drew alongside.
Suspicion growing in his glance, the apelike one continued to eye him.
Gazing into the darkness, she knew that her stare was apelike.
Finally he became enraged and rushing upon her, seized her in his long, apelike arms.
No doubt that there will be evolutionists who will point out this study as further proof that we have evolved from an apelike ancestor.
I believe it was quite involuntary, but you know that a grave, much-lined, shaven countenance when distorted in an unusual way is extremely apelike.
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