Her pink-painted toenails still somehow petal-like.    From Wordnik.com.  ['Red Mandarin Dress: An Inspector Chen Novel'] Reference

The slices will take on an oval-ish petal-like shape.    From Wordnik.com.  [Busy Mom and Cupcakes] Reference

The petal-like surfaces are sturdy and spacious, making.    From Wordnik.com.  [March 2008] Reference

A cluster of pale, bloated, petal-like growths covered the thing's crown.    From Wordnik.com.  [Conan and the Emerald Lotus]

She liked the petal-like creatures that looked so like plants and weren't.    From Wordnik.com.  [Five Fall Into Adventure]

When the light is off, the petal-like lampshade is cold and closed around the bulb.    From Wordnik.com.  [2006 May | Inhabitat - Green Design Will Save the World] Reference

Her lips curled, petal-like, in a gurgling peal of enjoyment at his shame-faced grin.    From Wordnik.com.  [Then I'll Come Back to You] Reference

The unisexual flowers have orange-red petals about 5 cm long and 3 petal-like staminodes.    From Wordnik.com.  [Chapter 26] Reference

The red, petal-like missiles burst into the morning air, stirring flocks of sparrows from their sleep.    From Wordnik.com.  [Excerpt: The Tapestries by Kien Nguyen] Reference

Roll each slice into a cylinder and place them in a petal-like pattern around the vegetables in the center.    From Wordnik.com.  [Celebrity Chefs' Healthiest Meals] Reference

The enriched, oil-free gel is flecked with a dreamy opalescence and imparts a petal-like smoothness to skin.    From Wordnik.com.  [Rose Pleasures in Food, Drink & Beauty] Reference

The Origami table is made from sheets of steel, and we think its petal-like surfaces make the perfect sculptural end table.    From Wordnik.com.  [ICFF 2008: Flatpack Origami Table by MIO | Inhabitat] Reference

There are moments when the line comes closer to Earth and then moves away again, creating a circle of five petal-like shapes.    From Wordnik.com.  [Prince Charles Explores 'Mysterious Unity' Of The Universe In New Book] Reference

In fact, what they most resemble are petals, so next try will be to make slices that can be trimmed to appear more petal-like.    From Wordnik.com.  [candied grapefruit peels | smitten kitchen] Reference

In the scilla there is no corona, neither a tube, but the petal-like sepals or divisions of the perianth are entire, going to the base of the flower.    From Wordnik.com.  [Hardy Perennials and Old Fashioned Flowers Describing the Most Desirable Plants, for Borders, Rockeries, and Shrubberies.] Reference

There are three circles of leaves forming the perigone, the two outer being more or less membranaceous, and only the three inner petal-like in texture.    From Wordnik.com.  [Elements of Structural and Systematic Botany For High Schools and Elementary College Courses] Reference

You could look right at it without even blinking; lemon-yellow, it had round, fat cheeks, blue eyes, a wide mouth, and a fringe of pointed petal-like rays.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Chrome Borne]

She lacked the latter's lustrous pallor, the petal-like richness of.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Happy End] Reference

They were clear and cool and the petal-like quality was out on her skin.    From Wordnik.com.  [Star-Dust] Reference

Watch for petal-like details and floral accents as a huge spring 2009 trend.    From Wordnik.com.  [OnMilwaukee.com] Reference

A large, petal-like retracting roof will enable the staging of open-sky events.    From Wordnik.com.  [Gizmodo] Reference

She does not seek the faces of the other visitors scattered, petal-like, around her.    From Wordnik.com.  [Guernica Magazine] Reference

Some patches of it on her face gave a petal-like effect to her otherwise aggressive color.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Wit and Humor of America, Volume II. (of X.)] Reference

They are all easily distinguished from the American species by the absence of petal-like scales.    From Wordnik.com.  [Handbook of the Trees of New England] Reference

Calyx of 4 to 9 oval, petal-like sepals; no petals; stamens and carpels numerous, of indefinite number.    From Wordnik.com.  [Wild Flowers Worth Knowing] Reference

= -- The petal-like agaric is so called from the fancied resemblance of the plant to the petal of a flower.    From Wordnik.com.  [Studies of American Fungi. Mushrooms, Edible, Poisonous, etc.] Reference

No petals; usually 5 (often more) oval, petal-like sepals; stamens numerous; many pistils (carpels) without styles.    From Wordnik.com.  [Wild Flowers Worth Knowing] Reference

Corolla wheel-shaped, 1/2 in. across or less, deeply cut into (usually) 7 tapering, spreading, petal-like segments.    From Wordnik.com.  [Wild Flowers Worth Knowing] Reference

The petal-like capture mechanism that was used to attach the Cupola to its initial location on Tranquility was also stuck.    From Wordnik.com.  [Softpedia News - Global] Reference

Perianth of 6 oblong, petal-like, spreading divisions; 6 stamens with linear anthers; style thickest above, with 3 branches.    From Wordnik.com.  [Wild Flowers Worth Knowing] Reference

In structure each tiny polyp is little more than a fleshy sac whose mouth is surrounded with petal-like tentacles, or feelers.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Elements of Geology] Reference

She's made in the same method as Oscar -- a wooden center piece, and then her blue petal-like fairy skirt and feet made of plastic.    From Wordnik.com.  [Epinions Recent Content for Home] Reference

Then the shivering body rolling into bed, the little cold arms tight around her neck, the cold smooth petal-like cheek against hers.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Brimming Cup] Reference