This so-called "Engis skull" was by no means apelike in its character, but closely resembled that of the average Caucasian man.
The skull attracted much attention from its supposed possession of many apelike characteristics; indeed, it was represented by some to be a real intermediate link between man and the anthropoid apes.
He found the apelike bodyguard stretched out on a bunk, a vacant smile on his face.
One of them was Jurgens' apelike follower, his stupid face relaxed and vacant.
He went expertly, swinging from car to car with apelike clumsiness--and surety.
But he managed it with the sameapelike adroitness.
And as the Thing listened, its hair bristling, it thrust its villainous, apelike head well forward.
Here the watchers saw a glistening back; again, an out-thrust leg, small and crooked, apelike and repulsive.
He was a short, very thickset little man, with very long arms--a squat, apelike figure.
A scattered shout came up from the crowd; the apelike man shouted out something to those near him, and then, leaving his knoll disappeared.
Then to his disgust and terror he saw the apelike features of the squat Japanese governess.
Cheeseman, with his tongue in his cheek, played up to the lead of the apelike skipper, simulating the wildest terror of the oncoming destroyer.
The apelike skipper emphasized his amusement with a cackling laugh.
It is difficult for us to realize how utterly degenerate and apelike these pygmies are.
We had gone but a little distance when we were attacked by a number of apelike creatures armed with clubs.
Now, hang on," whispered the ape-man, and with a short run he clambered apelike up the front of the low arcade.
Finally he became enraged and rushing upon her, seized her in his long, apelike arms.
He swayed back and forth; he waved the carbine in one long apelike hand.
The youthful Civil Guard eyed the apelike Pascual a moment, and then derisively laughed.
One was, of course, that apelike policeman, Pascual Montara, whom Quesada last had seen in the gorge below Minas de la Sierra with Don Esteban.
The apelike Pascual, his face a study in curiosity, drew alongside.
The apelike Pascual grumbled, but loyally he followed his arrogant and imperious camarada.
Suspicion growing in his glance, the apelike one continued to eye him.
No more than a few weeks before, Quesada had seen the sergeant in the gorge below Minas de la Sierra, dominant with life and lording it over the apelike policeman Montara.
He was squat, broadly uncouth of shoulder, prognathous jawed--an ugly apelike sort.
Fools and children tell the truth," returned the apelike Pascual, quoting an old Spanish proverb.
But could we stop with the tailed man--the manlike ape, or the apelike man?
Dubois in Java in 1894 shows a creature with about half the brain capacity of the existing civilized man and with many apelike characteristics.
It is not so generally known that it is also possible to trace man back through fossil human remains that have been discovered in the earth's crust to the time when he is apparently just emerging from some apelike form.
On the contrary, there is every reason to believe, as Westermarck says, that human family life is an inheritance from man's apelike progenitor.
A sudden sweep of his huge apelike arm in an angular gesture, and the drollery and carelessness of his voice were riven from it as by a bolt of lightning.
The sinister bead eyes, with brown splotches in their whites, were set wide apart and gleamed apelike under his scant brows.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "apelike" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
