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Example sentences for "jellylike"

Lexicographically close words:
jellied; jellies; jelly; jellyfish; jellyfishes; jen; jene; jener; jennet; jennets
  1. Soft soap, a soap of a gray or brownish yellow color, and of a slimy, jellylike consistence, made from potash or the lye from wood ashes.

  2. Defn: A jellylike mass of free protoplasm, without any union of amoeboid cells, and endowed with life and power of motion.

  3. The odor of the jellylike animalcules was far from pleasant.

  4. Under the microscope the shells were partly transparent, and within the jellylike body inside the shell could be seen a single dark spot.

  5. Odd that they should make a jellylike mass.

  6. They were little jellylike creatures, roughly spherical in shape, with their bodies protected by almost infinitely thin, silicious shells that possessed a silvery luster.

  7. Whole colonies of houses were garbed in the glistening, shining horror, and the jellylike stuff filled the roads between.

  8. From dozens of holes in the fragile shells protruded fat, jellylike tentacles that waved and moved restlessly, forever in search of food.

  9. They were high up in northern seas, still unvisited by the jellylike animalcules.

  10. When we took the crew off that yacht, they showed us where the jellylike mass seemed to be slowly creeping up the sides of the ship.

  11. The animals themselves were tiny, jellylike creatures incased in a spherical, silicious shell from dozens of holes in which fat, restless tentacles protruded.

  12. When oars were dipped into the strangely whitened or silvered water the oars were drawn out coated with a sticky, silvery mass of a jellylike substance.

  13. All about them, in a space perhaps sixty or seventy yards across, the water was yellowed and oily, but was certainly water, and not the horrible, jellylike stuff the world had so much cause to fear.

  14. Placed in an aquarium with a huge sea bass that was exceptional for its voracity, the sea bass avoided the tiny, jellylike mass as it would the plague.

  15. Within an hour from the appearance of the shimmer that showed that the protecting shell had been formed tiny, fat, jellylike tentacles protruded themselves from openings in the newly formed shell.

  16. An aggregation of tiny animalcules which had clustered together until they formed a jellylike mass did not promise much in the way of drama, and our newspapers are essentially purveyors of drama.

  17. This jellylike material appeared to be endowed with wonderful powers, and yet neither physical nor microscopical study revealed at first anything more than a uniform homogeneous mass of jelly.

  18. It may be abundant or scanty, and has a widely varying consistency from a very liquid mass to a decidedly thick jellylike substance.

  19. But the essential materials of living things agree throughout the entire range of plant and animal forms in having a jellylike consistency.

  20. A jellylike mass of free protoplasm, without any union of am\'d2boid cells, and endowed with life and power of motion.

  21. A brownish black native hydrocarbon occurring in elastic or jellylike masses.

  22. Stock that is heavy enough to solidify into a jellylike consistency when it is cold will keep better than stock that remains liquid.

  23. It is contained in the connective tissue and can be extracted by boiling, being apparent as a jellylike substance after the water in which meat has been cooked has cooled.

  24. In front of the lens is a watery fluid and behind it is a clear jellylike mass.

  25. As soon as the blood gets to the air it forms a jellylike mass called a clot.

  26. This consists of two huge masses filled with a jellylike substance, below the spine, and separated by a narrow median septum.

  27. The two coats are separated, and at the same time connected, by a greater or less amount of a jellylike filling called the "mesenchyme.

  28. The buds are immature jellyfishes which finally break away and assume the typical jellylike form, free swimmers bearing not the slightest resemblance to the parent.

  29. When it so desired it dashed around the tank with great velocity, in strange contrast to the labored movements of other jellylike forms, or the utter and complete helplessness of Physalia, Velella, or Porpita.

  30. Near allies of these attractive forms are the comb bearers, free-swimming, jellylike forms of great beauty and grace.

  31. The temperature when the whole mass becomes of a jellylike consistency.

  32. If a tender, jellylike consistency is wanted, cook the egg below the boiling point of water.

  33. Being homogeneous and elastic, the moist, jellylike tissue composing the tumor may be easily destroyed or crushed.

  34. If after the death of the animal it is more thoroughly examined, it will be noted that the tissues under the skin are infiltrated with blood and yellowish, jellylike material and gas bubbles.

  35. When they are cut open they are found to consist of a peculiar, jellylike mass of a yellowish color and more or less stained with blood.

  36. Matter is found in the air tubes which form gutters through the jellylike mass of the diseased lung.

  37. The blood is dark in color, fluid, or only clotted into soft, jellylike masses.

  38. The former consist of coagulated fibrin, separated from the mass of blood, of a whitish or yellowish white color, translucent, of a jellylike consistence, and having a nucleus in the center.

  39. Bone contains a substance which long cooking changes into a jellylike mass called gelatine.

  40. How do you account for its jellylike consistency?

  41. It rippled and rose in the dark with the pulsing beat of the jellylike mass.

  42. It was a jellylike mound, through which trembled endless quivering palpitations.

  43. Immediately before leaving the body of the female they receive a coating of jellylike material, which swells up after the eggs are laid.

  44. But it was not until 1838 that two German friends, Schleiden and Schwann by name, working on plants and animals, discovered that both of these forms of life contained a jellylike substance that later came to be called protoplasm.

  45. Shortly after the tadpole wriggles out of the jellylike case and begins life outside the egg.


  46. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "jellylike" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.