| When it is wet, this snakelike body is very slippery, long ago giving rise to the simile, slippery as an eel. |
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| Artistic images of snakelike forms capture the scaly, slithering, writhing shapes of snakes as they move over the ground or swim in water. |
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| There were lots of snakelike creatures, some roundish things as prickly as hedgehogs and some notable beaks and pincers as well as possibly a stinger or two. |
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| Researchers at Italy's Sant'Anna School of Advanced Studies, in Pisa, have designed a snakelike aquatic robot. |
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| To spare you a lot of the story, I will simply say that it was soon clear that his snakelike movement's were not from the poison. |
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| In the corner I could make out a bed with glowing vines trailing snakelike up the bedposts and under the window sat a desk with a sea serpents engraved into the dark wood. |
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| She stepped around him and walked quickly in an effort to put some distance between them, picking her way over a coil of discarded wire that wound snakelike through the grass. |
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| The peacock butterfly appears to have evolved the intimidating, snakelike sound to reduce its chances of being eaten, according to a news story in The Guardian. |
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| So steep are the valley edges that the road has to wind back and forth on itself, coiled snakelike up the sides of the mountain. But there are rewards, too. |
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| The American eel has a slender snakelike body that is covered with a mucous layer, which makes the eel appear to be naked and slimy despite the presence of minute scales. |
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| The non-native sea lamprey, also plaguing the Great Lakes, is a snakelike fish with a suction-cup mouth that attaches to native species and sucks their blood. |
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| The body of a gray linnorm is long, sleek and very snakelike. |
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