My friendships tend to grow, amoeba-like, out of themselves.    From Wordnik.com.  [Dru Blood - I believe in the inherent goodness of all beings: October 2005 Archives] Reference

It grew rapidly, amoeba-like, its black, widening center an oil stain spreading across the air.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ripping Time]

After a week of experimentation, I settle upon my favorite – a curvy, amoeba-like adaptation of a Flying V guitar.    From Wordnik.com.  [Your Personal Fabricator | Impact Lab] Reference

A property right crafted with one goal in mind can spread, amoeba-like, to cover situations its drafters never intended.    From Wordnik.com.  [B2fxxx] Reference

I have a large, variable and amoeba-like group of friends and the one thing they never lack, Gentle Reader, is a point of view.    From Wordnik.com.  [Cover Art and Other Considerations] Reference

Aquaman encounters a weird, amoeba-like creature, which is fought off by a beautiful woman who he can't seem to communicate with.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2008-05-01] Reference

He allowed himself an exception with J. Edgar Hoover (he did him four times), whom he depicted once as an amoeba-like, cobwebbed blob.    From Wordnik.com.  [Levine in Winter] Reference

The fear is that this legislation will not just encompass old stuff few people care about, but will also cover, amoeba-like, more recent creations.    From Wordnik.com.  [Orphan Works copyright legislation NOW pending] Reference

So like we couldn't do anything else but wait, and we completed printing our board and stuff, and waiee drew her amoeba-like bacteria and her pumpkin.    From Wordnik.com.  [yanxious Diary Entry] Reference

On the outskirt of the amoeba-like mass of humanity, one could see countless sick, injured, maimed, or frozen Obama-enthusiasts (now minus the enthusiasm).    From Wordnik.com.  [Lee Camp: Hungover Blogging of the Inauguration, an Inaugural Ball, & the HuffPost Ball] Reference

In his experiments, the masses of independent amoeba-like cells that act as a single organism would initially spread out to explore all the possible paths of a maze.    From Wordnik.com.  [Boing Boing] Reference

"It's amoeba-like in some ways," said Mr. Thomson.    From Wordnik.com.  [The New York Observer -] Reference

This draws set of animating, transparent, amoeba-like blobs.    From Wordnik.com.  [UNEASYsilence] Reference

They run from amoeba-like objects to things like crayfish, with silicate skeletons.    From Wordnik.com.  [Uller Uprising] Reference

These pockets can best be described as layers of oblonged amoeba-like pancakes in the sky.    From Wordnik.com.  [DaddyBlogger.com] Reference

In this environment, liquids glob into airborne amoeba-like droplets and water boils weirdly.    From Wordnik.com.  [Yahoo! News: Business - Opinion] Reference

You control an amoeba-like blob that must consume smaller entities to grow, and then expel them to move.    From Wordnik.com.  [TechCrunch] Reference

Or are there simply bacteria or amoeba-like creatures crawling around on some comet a thousand light years away?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Hindustan Times News Feeds 'Views'] Reference

Frequently, the walls feel like they're closing in on AGWSR's opponents, as the Cougars 'amoeba-like defense operates.    From Wordnik.com. Reference

Jim Nolan's unfrilled conversation, of his clumsy, rather inane compliments, of his primitive amoeba-like type of humor.    From Wordnik.com.  [Jewel Weed] Reference

I tell you this because like some amorphous, amoeba-like, alien life form from the original Star Trek, I feed on your hate.    From Wordnik.com.  [Hip Suburban White Guy] Reference

It saw an amoeba-like organism engulf a bacterium that had developed the power to use sunlight to break down water and liberate oxygen.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Times of India] Reference

His amoeba-like design is practically burnt into my psyche and is one of the things I remember most about this show from watching it as a kid.    From Wordnik.com.  [Branded in the 80s!] Reference

A vital gene that defends us against cancer has been found in one of the simplest of animals - a flat, amoeba-like creature called a placozoan.    From Wordnik.com.  [New Scientist - Online News] Reference

He even threads through the subtle lexicon of tie patterns-from "amoeba-like foulard blobs" (Upper), signal flags (Upper Middle), musical notes.    From Wordnik.com. Reference

If one were to peer at tea leaves, I might predict a TI-like development, with amoeba-like bloat, followed by a sell off of non-core businesses.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Inquirer] Reference

A team of Japanese and British researchers say the behaviour of the amoeba-like mould could lead to better design of computer or communication networks.    From Wordnik.com.  [Renegade Futurist] Reference

It is upsetting that the power of this amoeba-like conception called "cultural hegemony" is unable to account for variations in a child's functionality.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Daily Illini - The Independent Student Newspaper at the University of Illinois since 1871] Reference

The results have been worrying - particularly for species that build skeletons out of calcium carbonate, such as corals and amoeba-like organisms called foraminifera.    From Wordnik.com.  [Climate Progress] Reference

The results have been worrying -- particularly for species that build skeletons out of calcium carbonate, such as corals and amoeba-like organisms called foraminifera.    From Wordnik.com.  [ Global Warming RSS Newsfeed] Reference

Net-Worm is caused by an amoeba-like organic entity that is capable of transmitting itself at rates approaching the speed of light across fiber optic and copper network cables.    From Wordnik.com.  [Front page feed] Reference

In addition to sculpture, Fischer uses algorithms to create elegant, amoeba-like digital images inspired by theoretical botany and the growth process in nature (pictured below).    From Wordnik.com.  [Cool Hunting] Reference

Studies in the Southern Ocean by Australian scientists found that the shells of tiny amoeba-like creatures called foraminifera have become thinner since the Industrial Revolution.    From Wordnik.com.  [BBC News | News Front Page | World Edition] Reference

“It’s amoeba-like in some ways,” said Mr. Thomson.    From Wordnik.com.  [Murdoch's Monster: The Journal of the Plague Years] Reference

It’s my opportunity to take my amoeba-like mess of a 1st draft and give it some bones.    From Wordnik.com.  [Writer Unboxed » Blog Archive » Wielding the Knife] Reference