whalelike

Example Sentences

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The Mother — an iridescent, whalelike blob with the soulful mien of an elephant — effectively has the maternal role that Wendy assumes in Barrie’s version.

From New York Times • Feb. 27, 2020

Stocky, intense, a stickler, he was armor-plated in fitness—his resting pulse rate, at one point, was a whalelike twenty-eight.

From The New Yorker • Jan. 18, 2016

A tall, thin conning tower, which the crew calls a "sail," rises out of her rounded, whalelike back to give roll-stability and carry the forward control planes.

From Time Magazine Archive

Some went galumphing through the sparkling air atop elephants, others drifted down the Congo, past the snapping jaws of crocodiles and the whalelike surfacing of rhinos.

From Time Magazine Archive

One whalelike snort floated out into the hall through the peeling bathroom door.

From "A Confederacy of Dunces" by John Kennedy Toole