A few darker boulders poked mushroomlike heads above the uneven lawn. ❋ Unknown (2010)
Most weeks I remember to leave a white cooler out for the Dairy Fairy's use, but on those rare occasions when I forget, a magical light Styrofoam container springs up mushroomlike from the concrete to safeguard our precious dairy treasures. ❋ Shunn (2009)
In his largest project to date, Mr. Mayer H. is redeveloping a major square in Seville with a network of enormous, mushroomlike structures. ❋ Unknown (2008)
A new study finds that virtual colonoscopy, a method that uses a C.T. scanner for colon cancer screening, can be just as effective as traditional colonoscopy in finding polyps, the mushroomlike growths from which most cancers arise. ❋ Unknown (2003)
As they were packing up their gear, wordless with fatigue, Hasa noticed a small fist-sized herbivore attacking a clump of mushroomlike basidiocarps growing on a fallen log just outside their resting place. ❋ Foster, Alan Dean, 1946- (2003)
Instead he told his wife and together they saw, at the front of the house, a cone-shaped object with a top that was mushroomlike in appearance. ❋ Kevin Randle (2000)
There remains now only the hygienic task of clearing up a misconception about this novel which has grown mushroomlike beside it, and threat-ens at times almost to replace it. ❋ Flanagan, Thomas (2000)
Shivetya sustains his guests and allies by exuding large, mushroomlike growths of manna. ❋ Cook, Glen (2000)
Yet he would point out to Milly appreciatively on their Sunday walks the acres of new building growing mushroomlike from the sandy soil, with the miles of tangled railroad tracks, the forest of smoking chimneys, and the ever widening canopy of black smoke. ❋ Robert Herrick (1903)
But it was the subtle addition of periwinkles, the sea snails with an almost mushroomlike chew, that added a surprising brininess to the dish. ❋ Unknown (2009)
The balls grew into mushroomlike objects one millimeter to two millimeters in diameter. ❋ Unknown (2008)
Soon they were beyond the rim of industry which banded the city, and, leaving behind them towering chimneys, smokeless for the night, clouds of released working-men waiting their turns to crowd into overloaded street cars, the grimy, busy belt line which extended in a great arc through the body of the manufacturing strip, they passed through sprouting, mushroomlike suburban villages -- villages which had not been there the year before, which would be indistinguishable from the city itself the year after. ❋ Clarence Budington Kelland (1922)
His companion was a tweedy woman who snapped: "Of course they're paffid and mushroomlike, Howard. ❋ Anderson, Poul, 1926-2001 (1972)
His companion was a tweedy woman who snapped: “Of course they’re pallid and mushroomlike, Howard. ❋ Anderson, Poul (1970)
When no fish or meat has been procured, and this is more often the rule than the exception, he may have found on his rambles some mushroomlike fungi, [15] or even mushrooms, [16] or he may have taken a notion to cut down some palm tree, and get a fine palm [17] or rattan core [18] or even young bamboo shoots. [ ❋ John M. Garvan (N/A)
