There was a stand with a curious instrument of some kind that had a stout wheel-like handle.    From Wordnik.com.  [An Open Letter to Fans of South Plains Football] Reference

"From among the fleecy clouds issues the wheel-like russet sun." dowager lady Chia continued.    From Wordnik.com.  [Hung Lou Meng, Book II Or, the Dream of the Red Chamber, a Chinese Novel in Two Books] Reference

“From among the fleecy clouds issues the wheel-like russet sun.” dowager lady Chia continued.    From Wordnik.com.  [Hung Lou Meng] Reference

Behind it was an open compartment dominated by a wheel-like device and some simple instrumentation.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Call to Arms]

The ride itself spun, wheel-like, and then the cars probably spun horizontally on some smaller axis.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2007-06-17] Reference

Then he knelt down by the edge of the pool and put his hand in to feel the curious wheel-like thing again.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Mountain of Adventure]

With its white-plastic front, small LCD display and distinctive wheel-like control, the iPod resembles a thermostat sculpted by George Segal.    From Wordnik.com.  [Mac Music] Reference

June 21, 1893: A Pittsburgh bridge builder named George Ferris unveils a giant wheel-like contraption at the Columbian Exposition in Chicago.    From Wordnik.com.  [Over the Top] Reference

Biological evolution has not produced wheel-like organs that exhibit a continuously looping movement while remaining in contact with the ground.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2009-08-01] Reference

Taking a step away from the computer, phone, and TV after a certain time of day can help us to stop chasing useless thoughts around in a hamster wheel-like fashion.    From Wordnik.com.  [Tara Stiles: Sleep Tips: Bedtime Yoga (VIDEO)] Reference

Vast wheel-like super-constructions -- they enter this earth's atmosphere, and, threatened with disintegration, plunge for relief into an ocean, or into a denser medium.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Book of the Damned] Reference

The very common wheel-like webs, which you see abundantly on hedges, are snares or traps for insects, and beautiful they look on a dewy morning all strung with liquid pearls.    From Wordnik.com.  [Country Walks of a Naturalist with His Children] Reference

The microscope showed this to consist of parenchymatous cells, with here and there a group of the wheel-like or radiating cells which botanists, I think, term sphere-crystals.    From Wordnik.com.  [Scientific American Supplement, No. 385, May 19, 1883] Reference

A steeply sloping glacis (or incline) shielded a wooden entrance to the tower that could be blocked by a heavy wheel-like stone that was rolled back and forth on a dirt track.    From Wordnik.com.  [Curse of the Balsam Cookers] Reference

I caught myself looking down at this mouse a few times to make sure I wasn't using a real scroll wheel because the sound effects and feel of the scroll strip are so wheel-like.    From Wordnik.com.  [Three Funky Mice Made for Laptops] Reference

The wheel-like turnscrew moves easily, and the port door opens effortlessly.    From Wordnik.com.  [PCWorld] Reference

The Bear assumed dignified airs, while the Peacock was showing off his wheel-like tail.    From Wordnik.com.  [Flowers from a Persian Garden and Other Papers] Reference

In one level, Mega Man has to jump on a water wheel-like device to cross deadly spikes.    From Wordnik.com.  [Siliconera] Reference

While wheel-like movement evolved naturally, it also describes what Bejan likes to call.    From Wordnik.com.  [innovations-report] Reference

It was a wheel-like disk of metal, set upon an axle that sprouted from the floor of rock.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Devil's Asteroid] Reference

Elsewhere, the Liquid E Ferrari retains the cool wheel-like widgets of the original Liquid.    From Wordnik.com.  [Crave at CNET UK] Reference

You will now find most of the settings on a wheel-like selector, which you can browse from.    From Wordnik.com.  [Softpedia News - Global] Reference

Note the orange line representing the monorail as it enters the wheel-like design of Epcot.    From Wordnik.com.  [MousePlanet] Reference

The tiny, common European spider is best known for the classic wheel-like web beloved of children's drawings.    From Wordnik.com.  [PhysOrg.com - latest science and technology news stories] Reference

Silver with a black set of buttons in a wheel-like shape, plus separate Menu and Play buttons, the new Apple Remote resembles a fifth-generation.    From Wordnik.com.  [Megite Technology News: What's Happening Right Now] Reference

Bagels, with their central fitting holes and wheel-like shape, are an engineering student’s kind of sandwich holder.    From Wordnik.com.  [Top 10 Tricks MacGyver Would Be Proud Of | Lifehacker Australia] Reference

Julian ran to the wheel-like handle.    From Wordnik.com.  [An Open Letter to Fans of South Plains Football] Reference

Nature developed not only wheel-like movement but also mechanisms for changing speeds. ".    From Wordnik.com.  [innovations-report] Reference

Dark, wheel-like turning clouds are all we find.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ten Englishmen of the Nineteenth Century]

Dark, wheel-like, turning clouds are all we find!.    From Wordnik.com.  [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 54, No. 334, August 1843] Reference

Dark, wheel-like, turning clouds are all we find.    From Wordnik.com.  [Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern — Volume 6] Reference

Vast wheel-like constructions.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Book of the Damned] Reference

A wheel-like thing, set with jewels? ".    From Wordnik.com.  [The Golden Silence] Reference