On Monday, live video feeds showed robot submarines moving equipment around and using a circular saw-like device to cut small pipes at the bottom of the Gulf. From Wordnik.com. [Gulf Oil Spill: Best Chance To Stop Leak Won't Be Ready Until August] Reference
Check out this gallery for a look at the various sea creatures like the large-tooth sawfish which uses its saw-like nose for defense and digging food in the sand. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Nov 27, 2005] Reference
This mass is generally jagged at the top with saw-like edges, and it doesn't so very much resemble those Gothic cathedral spires as Arctic writers try to make out. From Wordnik.com. [Tom Finch's Monkey and How he Dined with the Admiral] Reference
A piece of chain was attached to this by a swivel instead of rope or a line, which, although good enough for other fish, the saw-like teeth of the monster of the deep would quickly have bitten through. From Wordnik.com. [The White Squall A Story of the Sargasso Sea] Reference
Its forelegs form a sort of saw-like or barbed harpoons. From Wordnik.com. [The Life of the Spider] Reference
I could just make out a saw-like outline in the direction indicated. From Wordnik.com. [Tales of Fantasy and Fact] Reference
This extraordinary mountain derives its name from its saw-like appearance. From Wordnik.com. [Castles and Cave Dwellings of Europe] Reference
No sooner had he gone than the facetious man launched his saw-like voice again upon the company. From Wordnik.com. [What Necessity Knows] Reference
Behind the chapel stand Los Dientes, a teeth or saw-like range resembling that behind Leceo in Italy. From Wordnik.com. [Tramping Through Mexico, Guatemala and Honduras — Being the Random Notes of an Incurable Vagabond] Reference
I run my thumb over a set of deep saw-like serrations so sharp I can feel the points tugging at my skin. From Wordnik.com. [Culture | guardian.co.uk] Reference
What you think are their noses are long projecting saw-like blades, and they are the whale's deadliest enemy. From Wordnik.com. [The Wreck of the Nancy Bell Cast Away on Kerguelen Land] Reference
As I was cleaning everything, and I ran my knuckles somehow across a saran wrap box, that kind of saw-like thing. From Wordnik.com. [Gothamist] Reference
It had as many as 40 teeth on both the upper and lower jaw that were sharp and serrated (saw-like) measuring 4.5 inches. From Wordnik.com. [CreationWiki - Recent changes [en]] Reference
Video feeds showed the robots using a circular saw-like device to cut small pipes around a wider riser that is spewing oil. From Wordnik.com. [Top Stories: BreakingNews.ie] Reference
Sudun then went in, clothed himself in gilded armour, girt on a saw-like sword, and came out holding a shining club in his hand. From Wordnik.com. [Arabian nights. English] Reference
It shows workers making saw-like cuts into the necks of animals after ritual slaughter, or shechita, has been performed by a rabbi. From Wordnik.com. [Articles] Reference
Women's combs are made by shaping a half circle out of light wood and then cutting teeth into it with a saw-like blade of tin or iron. From Wordnik.com. [The Wild Tribes of Davao District, Mindanao The R. F. Cummings Philippine Expedition] Reference
It is a stern and gray old city that the sun looks down upon, when once he does show his jolly face above the saw-like ridges of the grim. From Wordnik.com. [Historic Girls] Reference
In the morning they dragged me to the valley, and tying my feet, with a long rope, to a tree, put a flat stone with a saw-like edge in my left hand. From Wordnik.com. [Lilith, a romance] Reference
A circular saw-like disc was shown off and it would return to you if thrown successfully, occasionally taking off an enemies head along the way as well. From Wordnik.com. [Latest from PALGN] Reference
This he uses like an umbrella, and if in this way he does not succeed in frightening away his enemy, he rushes at him, and lashes him with his saw-like tail. From Wordnik.com. [The Human Side of Animals] Reference
He was for all the world like a Malay pirate; I have seen his double steering a proa off the Borneo coast, slim, high-cheeked, with a sashful of saw-like knives. From Wordnik.com. [White Shadows in the South Seas] Reference
The female cicada first selects a twig of a tree or shrub to her liking Then she makes a small hole on that twig, using a saw-like organ near the tip of her abdomen. From Wordnik.com. Reference
A great bat flitted by so close that the smell of it poisoned the air, and from the forest, far away to the west, came the ripping saw-like cry of a leopard on the prowl. From Wordnik.com. [The Pools of Silence] Reference
A natural temple, the vast ruin of a gigantic minster, it seemed, and across the basin a rugged, saw-like profile of the mountain-top. From Wordnik.com. [White Shadows in the South Seas] Reference
VELEZ: He had a saw-like blade. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Dec 27, 2005] Reference
HARD HORN: 150G A jagged, saw-like horn. From Wordnik.com. [IGN Complete] Reference
(saw-like) measuring 4.5 inches. From Wordnik.com. [CreationWiki - Recent changes [en]] Reference
"saw-like" design to the guard. From Wordnik.com. [Recently updated products at JBOX.com] Reference
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