Defn: A genus of perennial herbs (Iris) with swordlike leaves and large three-petaled flowers often of very gay colors, but probably white in the plant first chosen for the royal French emblem.
The bones of the upper jaw are consolidated, and form a long, rigid, swordlike beak; the dorsal fin is high and without distinct spines; the ventral fins are absent.
On the plateau, he took a road that forked to the right, leading between hedges of swordlike aloes to the palace gardens.
There seemed a piercing and swordlike pathos, an unexpected fragrance of all forgotten or desecrated things, in the bare survival of that poor little pigment upon the imperishable rock.
Therefore people welcomed the return of adventurous novels about alien places and times, the trenchant and swordlike stories of Stevenson.
Burl spun on his heel, swooped upon the gleaming swordlike wand that had fallen from the dead Plutonian, and racing back to the exhibit, brought it up with all his might against the transparent surface.
Huge swordlike leaves and giant flower-stalks all but hid from view the Maori stockades.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "swordlike" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
