jellylike

Example Sentences

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Hydrogels have unique water-absorbing properties that give them a jellylike consistency resembling biological tissue.

From Science Daily • Sep. 25, 2023

Dr. Haygood scraped a smoothie-like mixture of freshly-ground shipworm, which also contained the bacteria from inside its body, and spread it in zigzagging lines into petri dishes and tubes filled with a jellylike medium.

From New York Times • Mar. 31, 2020

“The spacecraft was a yellowish sphere that eventually melted away to a stringy, viscous substance. The alien is a blue, jellylike object approximately the size of a family sofa.”

From Slate • Feb. 29, 2020

Faith Lutheran Church in Forest Lake, Minnesota, would serve a Scandinavian dinner featuring the pungent, jellylike fish the first Tuesday in December.

From Washington Times • Dec. 2, 2018

Dimple was excellent at arguing with Mamma, but when it came to confrontations with other people, her backbone somehow became jellylike.

From "When Dimple Met Rishi" by Sandhya Menon