Flowerlike

The grand-opening shirts are packaged with care similar to that of Apple products—tightly rolled in a white box that unfolds into one flowerlike piece. ❋ Jessica E. Vascellaro (2011)

And even now, Isolde could see with aching clarity the tiny, waxen face and flowerlike hands of her stillborn baby girl. ❋ Anna Elliott (2010)

Olan was the first Chinese woman to be portrayed in fiction as she actually was rather than with the moth eyebrows, porcelain skin, and tiny flowerlike feet of the traditional heroine. ❋ Hilary Spurling (2010)

They passed a coral reef, where the growths were intricate and flowerlike, the blooms opening and closing in the slight current. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Way out on the water, practically at the horizon, the flowerlike pink machines that Charles had heard some people refer to as God were turning ocher in the dusk light. ❋ Stephen O’Connor (2010)

That violeteyed little Artemis, so grave and slight, with her flowerlike head that droops like a blossom and her wonderful ivory hands … ❋ Gyles Brandreth (2009)

Cordyceps, a fungus that invades insects and sprouts flowerlike stalks out of its body, is the source of cyclosporin, an important antibiotic. ❋ Carl Zimmer (2009)

Europeans discovered the caves in 1797, and today the amazing stalactites, stalagmites, curtains of limestone cascading like waterfalls, and delicate, flowerlike white gypsum crystals still capture the imagination. ❋ Unknown (2008)

Dip the end of the cardboard roll into the paint and press onto paper to make a flowerlike print. ❋ Trish Kuffner (2008)

My delicate flowerlike skin shows marks forever... ❋ Unknown (2008)

The museum shows some of Gzhel's works over the years, including bulbous, flowerlike teacups, multicolored tiles used in radiant-heat Russian stoves, elaborate ceramic chandeliers and even telephones with dainty receivers and flowery swirls around circular number dials. ❋ Joyce Man (2008)