The bed began to pulse, a gentle wave-like motion.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Year's Best Science Fiction 23rd Annual Collection]

The slow, wave-like movements of the stomach and intestines.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Practical Physiology] Reference

A wave-like motion, applied generally to light and electricity.    From Wordnik.com.  [Practical Mechanics for Boys] Reference

The music surged -- massive, wave-like, spinning figures of sound.    From Wordnik.com.  [Analog Science Fiction and Fact]

Sacral rocking creates a wave-like motion in the spine and skeleton.    From Wordnik.com.  [Hooping.org | Blog | The Healing Art of Hooping] Reference

The lines are also made crooked or wave-like, not absolutely parallel.    From Wordnik.com.  [Burroughs' Encyclopaedia of Astounding Facts and Useful Information, 1889] Reference

And everything rocked from side to side in rhythmic, wave-like movement.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Man Who Was Afraid] Reference

Quantum mechanical systems are described by wave-like mathematical objects.    From Wordnik.com.  [...anything but love...] Reference

We talked about it, but we never anticipated anything this big, or wave-like.    From Wordnik.com.  [Jay Rosen: The Uncharted: From Off The Bus to Meet the Press] Reference

In the Norwegian Sea we have frequently found these wave-like rises and falls.    From Wordnik.com.  [The South Pole~ Fram Expedition Oceanography] Reference

Or she can send it into a spectrum analyzer and measure the signal's wave-like properties.    From Wordnik.com.  [Vic Stenger: The New Spirituality] Reference

When approaching, one sees a vast field of stone pillars that undulate in a wave-like formation.    From Wordnik.com.  [David Shneer: Baby's First Holocaust Memorial:Taking My Daughter to the Berlin Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe] Reference

Heat results from wave-like vibrations of this materia ignis among the molecules (prop. 8, 1: 377).    From Wordnik.com.  [Kant's Philosophical Development] Reference

The animals began to sway and gyrate the upper half of their bodies in their peculiar wave-like way.    From Wordnik.com.  [The War with the Newts] Reference

I did a wave-like pattern so that I could break the bread more easily by following the lines, I mean.    From Wordnik.com.  [Cumin Flatbread] Reference

DC: David Bohm is somebody who suggested that our mind has both wave-like and particle-like qualities.    From Wordnik.com.  [Deepak Chopra: Amir Aczel Interview by Deepak Chopra] Reference

On the fifth, the flag fluttered like a ship's pennant behind a wave-like ridge taller than Ian Woosnam.    From Wordnik.com.  [Hills in Them There Greens] Reference

The term tunnelling refers to this wave-like property - the particle "tunnels" through the forbidden region.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Nobel Prize in Physics 1973 - Presentation Speech] Reference

It was assumed since then that the cathode rays were immaterial and had a wave-like nature similar to light.    From Wordnik.com.  [Jean Baptiste Perrin - Nobel Lecture] Reference

The uncertainty arises from the wave-like properties inherent in the quantum mechanical description of nature.    From Wordnik.com.  [ENTANGLED MINDS] Reference

It has its periods of comparative calm, of course, but even in this state there is a pulsing, wave-like motion apparent.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Human Aura Astral Colors and Thought Forms] Reference

The surfaces of some were smooth and highly polished; others were scolloped, or fluted, or marked with wave-like undulations.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Island Home] Reference

Female goes very fast from very high to very low, some kind of a wave-like mood, not necessarily based on menstruation, though.    From Wordnik.com.  [snap] Reference

And just as the surface, or "skin," friction forms waves at the surface of water, it also piles the desert sand in wave-like dunes.    From Wordnik.com.  [Wealth of the World's Waste Places and Oceania] Reference

I want you gentlemen to realize that there was no wave-like motion in this thing so far as our purpose and preparation are concerned.    From Wordnik.com.  [Woodrow Wilson as I Know Him] Reference

It is a description that allows us to separate ‘wave-like’ behavior from ‘non-wave’ behavior, so we ‘know it when we see it.’.    From Wordnik.com.  [Optics basics: What is a wave? Part I (updated) « Skulls in the Stars] Reference

In a real gastropod, there is a wave-like motion within the sole that usually starts at the tip of the tail and moves forward to the head.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2009-08-01] Reference

The strike spread in a wave-like movement throughout the airport.    From Wordnik.com.  [iToot Stream] Reference

The electronic magnets form repeated wave-like patterns promoted by superconductivity.    From Wordnik.com.  [PhysOrg.com - latest science and technology news stories] Reference

The wave-like wake that one's life creates behind him (or her) is the measure of one's worth.    From Wordnik.com. Reference

Bilateral parieto-occipital 4/sec spike wave-like discharges of moderate voltage is occasionally seen in the waking patient.    From Wordnik.com.  [Recently Uploaded Slideshows] Reference

The wave-like shape on the front conveys a dynamic and elegant look while providing a comfortable grip to slide the lens cover.    From Wordnik.com.  [Original Signal - Transmitting Gadgets] Reference