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Example sentences for "wavelike"

Lexicographically close words:
waved; wavelength; waveless; wavelet; wavelets; waver; wavered; waverers; wavering; waveringly
  1. The act of waving; a wavelike motion; a waft.

  2. To wet and calender, as cloth, so as to impart to it a lustrous appearance in wavy lines; to diversify with wavelike lines; as, to water silk.

  3. Having a wavelike appearance; marked with wavelike lines of color; as, waved, or watered, silk.

  4. Exhibiting a wavelike form or outline; undulating; intended; wavy; as, waved edge.

  5. Acidalia and allied genera; -- so called from the wavelike color markings on the wings.

  6. Defn: Formed with elevations and depressions resembling waves; having wavelike color markings; as, an undulated shell.

  7. Defn: The act of waving; a wavelike motion; a waft.

  8. A member or molding of the cornice, the profile of which is wavelike in form.

  9. The wind of the morning, that blew to her across the wavelike dunes and the white plains, seemed impregnated with ice.

  10. Length of the upper tooth-rows and zygomatic breadth, when expressed as percentages of the basilar length, and also the actual length of individual teeth vary geographically in the same wavelike fashion as does the width of the rostrum.

  11. These fluctuations are somewhat wavelike in character and rise to central points of extreme development and then sink away to intermediate borders beyond which new waves rise.

  12. Hence we can easily realize that, although we cannot see or feel the ether, any disturbance of it will set it in wavelike motion.

  13. Modern science accounts for light, radiant heat, and electrical phenomena by reason of wavelike disturbances, vibrations, or pulsations of this ether.

  14. By such wavelike advance and recession the tide of frost creeps over and submerges the arctic regions as the late summer passes into the autumn.

  15. Though in these the minima themselves show the law of latitudinal progression, the wavelike character of the advance is even better disclosed by the curves.


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