You stood rock-like and held to what you believed.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Courts of Chaos]

The soil is baked to a kind of rock-like consistency.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Jul 6, 2005] Reference

“Gulls Galore” is very rock-like when we play live.    From Wordnik.com.  [Disquiet » Rocket Man] Reference

The problem is that it's locked up in rock-like shale, and.    From Wordnik.com.  [Karin Kloosterman: How to Stop a Boogieman Trifecta? Ask a Rogue Cousin] Reference

It helped to lighten the tortillas, and make them less rock-like.    From Wordnik.com.  [flour tortillas | Homesick Texan] Reference

It's a rock-like object that fits in your hands, weighs about 13 ounces.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Jan 4, 2007] Reference

Their offspring would obviously have rock hard abs and a rock-like face.    From Wordnik.com.  [MICKEY ROURKE. JASON STATHAM. TOGETHER.] Reference

On either side of me, huge, scarped walls of rock-like substance rose sheer.    From Wordnik.com.  [The House on the Borderland] Reference

They were also my sole available choice, and gratifyingly unripe and rock-like.    From Wordnik.com.  [Tkemali: A Sour Plum Sauce] Reference

It was actually roasted meat on stickssomewhat like suya and hard rock-like bread.    From Wordnik.com.  [BIENVENUÉ ABIDJAN] Reference

"I reckon I can take care of myself," drawled Judd, doubling up two rock-like fists.    From Wordnik.com.  [Over the Line] Reference

We also get to see other aliens, the rock-like beings that rule the planet of San Paolo.    From Wordnik.com.  [REVIEW: Hunter's Run by George R.R. Martin, Gardener Dozois, & Daniel Abraham] Reference

A basis rock-like of love & friendship for all this world-wid madness seems to be needed.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Hold Steady Do Some Casbah Rocking, Evoke John Berryman] Reference

He recites the Qur'an operatically, and sings rock-like lyrics in the traditional Persian.    From Wordnik.com.  [Touraj Daryaee: Mohsen Namjoo: A New Music and Poetry for Modern Iran] Reference

"Horses now," he said firmly, when they had gnawed their way through the rock-like biscuits.    From Wordnik.com.  [If I Pay Thee Not In Gold]

In front of them, only three or four yards away, was a rock-like hump where no rock should be.    From Wordnik.com.  [Lord of the Flies]

Walls of this reign have a rock-like solidity and tenacity that should make them easily recognizable.    From Wordnik.com.  [How to Observe in Archaeology] Reference

In semiarid and subhumid areas with acidic soils a rock-like layer called ironstone can form (Box 9.4).    From Wordnik.com.  [5. How plants live and grow] Reference

What could be more interesting than emotionally volatile man children with rock-like projectiles and bats?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Alec Brownstein: Steroids: Baseball's Misunderstood Savior] Reference

"Heineken remover" is sweet, and "take for granite" is a nice usage for "rock-like certitude" if you think about it.    From Wordnik.com.  [languagehat.com: "MISPRONOUNCED" WORDS.] Reference

He was but young, when shadows seem solid, when dreams are corporeal stuff, and fantasies, rock-like strata of reality.    From Wordnik.com.  [Under the Rose] Reference

Erich was simply a very exceptional human being, a man of rock-like integrity and great sweetness and gentleness of nature.    From Wordnik.com.  [Erich Segal] Reference

The-lines down his cheeks were deeper now, the eyes more sunken, but the rock-like face was still one of surpassing dignity.    From Wordnik.com.  [Centennial]

In Hangar 17 sits "The Meteor," an eerie compression of several stories of the towers formed into a solid rock-like structure.    From Wordnik.com.  [Amanda Lin Costa: 6 - 5 - 10] Reference

When his hand splayed wide and he rubbed the surface of his taut skin over the rock-like peak, the sen'sations were exquisite.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Secret Vengeance]

The calcined and vitreous surface of the bricks, fused into rock-like masses, show that their fall may have been caused by lightning.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Itinerary of Benjamin of Tudela] Reference

The complicated organ of hearing is protected by a winding series of minute apartments, in the rock-like portion of the temporal bone.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Practical Physiology] Reference

Michael Theoklitos rock-like behind a solid defence.    From Wordnik.com.  [Latest News - Yahoo!7 News] Reference

The intrenched minority is capable of a sort of rock-like resistance.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Spoil of Office A Story of the Modern West] Reference

The quivering has gone from the Tories 'ample frame, and rock-like confidence has returned.    From Wordnik.com.  [Telegraph.co.uk: news, business, sport, the Daily Telegraph newspaper, Sunday Telegraph] Reference

Nasta's wild swordsmen were now breaking in red waves against the sullen rock-like squares.    From Wordnik.com.  [Allan Quatermain] Reference

Inga Vetere of the Fire and Rescue Service says the rock-like object was seen Sunday evening.    From Wordnik.com. Reference

Get moving as it is not possible to get high in the water when the total speed is more rock-like.    From Wordnik.com.  [Mark Rauterkus & Running Mates ponder current events] Reference