Sawlike

The repeated sequence at the heart of this presentation consists of isolated arm- and hand-dominated movements, including a sawlike crossing of the hands punctuated by the dancers' hisses, underscoring the "in your face" tone of the activity. ❋ Robert Greskovic (2011)

If it was someone or some thing that you sawlike a visit to a museum that had an influence on you, could you cite an example of the moment that you decided to become an artist? ❋ Glenn Kim (2010)

Sierras, whose sawlike points had been in sight for many miles. ❋ Unknown (2007)

The muffled pop-pop-pop of the artillery followed by a faint boom continued even as the sun dropped below the rugged, sawlike silhouette of the silver peaks and the wan crescent of the new moon rose drowsily, casting only a sliver of light. ❋ Heather Jarman (2006)

Moist, dark eyes behind horn-rimmed glasses, thin cheeks and sawlike cheekbones, liver-spotted hands trembling as he raised one and shoved his glasses higher on his nose. ❋ Saintcrow, Lilith (2005)

That sawlike catch is what gives us all confidence in elevators and the courage to jack up a car to change a tire. ❋ William Safire (2003)

Far inland, and tinged light-blue by distance, rose the sharp, jagged, and sawlike crests of El – Sharaf, under which the Hajj-caravan wends its weary way, thus escaping the mountains which dip perpendicularly into the sea. ❋ Unknown (2003)

The tip of the thick protuberance was lined with sawlike blades. ❋ Foster, Alan Dean, 1946- (1985)

The leaves, which are just coming out, are two or three inches long and about half as wide; they taper to a point and have serrate, or sawlike, edges. ❋ Ella Rodman Church (N/A)

And his song, as he climbed over me, was squeaky and sawlike, and as he walked he doddered, head trembling as an old man's shakes in final acquiescence in the futility of life. ❋ William Beebe (1919)

He pointed at the far crest of the sawlike highlands, where now he thought to see a hazy, floating pall of dust. ❋ George Allan England (1906)

Neither Yamba nor I waited for the coming impact, but threw ourselves overboard just as the creature's white sawlike weapon showed itself close to the surface only a few yards away. ❋ Fitzgerald, F Scott (1899)

Now the sawlike summits, cloud-kissing and crowned with eternal snow, burst into the brilliant sea and gleam like the brow of God, while the purple mists are drawn up from the deep valleys as though the giants fain would hide from earth their splendors, reserving them alone for Heaven. ❋ Unknown (1898)

Some have rough projections on the top of the head, and others little sawlike arrangements at the bases of the wings. ❋ Gene Stratton-Porter (1893)

The moon had not yet risen, but a brightness behind the sawlike edge of the fir woods eastward heralded its coming, while sufficient light yet remained in the western and northern sky for the mass of the house, its ruddy walls and ranges of mullioned windows, its pierced, stone parapet and stacks of slender, twisted chimneys, to be seen with a low-toned distinctness of form and colour infinitely charming. ❋ Lucas Malet (1891)

The grass slopes of the park, to the left, were backed by the dark, sawlike edge of the fir forest, and a soft gloom of oak woods, gray-brown and mottled as a lizard's belly and back, closed the end of the valley eastward. ❋ Lucas Malet (1891)