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Example sentences for "like surface"

  • Hook of bill underneath with a series of transverse ridges more or less bent along the median line and producing a file-like surface.

  • Hook of bill underneath nearly smooth or with very superficial longitudinal ridges, but with no distinct file-like surface.

  • Just then some cat's-paws were seen playing over the mirror-like surface of the ocean, the sails bulged out, and the Supplejack began to slip through the water.

  • The brig lay with her sails loose and her cable hove short: still not a breath of air stirred the glass-like surface of the harbour.

  • The breeze had been uncertain all the morning, now so light as not to disturb the mirror-like surface of the sea, now freshening up again so as to send the vessel along rapidly through the water.

  • As seen at that distance, she appeared a mass of white canvas; nor did she cause a ripple on the calm, mirror-like surface.

  • Not a ripple broke the mirror-like surface of the deep.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "like surface" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.


    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    active work; like animal; like another; like appendages; like body; like everything; like eyes; like fashion; like fire; like forms; like him; like leaves; like love; like maner; like order; like processes; like snow; like spirit; like structure; like substance; like those; like tone; liked best; pressure groups; said she; this convention