Its field is ribbon-like, as is that of the flowing stream.    From Wordnik.com.  [Energy and Society~ Chapter 5~ Steam~ Key to the Industrial Revolution] Reference

The Brooklyn-looking crowd twisted around the ribbon-like ramp.    From Wordnik.com.  [Adam Clark Estes: Beirut Plays The Guggenheim, Pastiche Meets Perilous Hipster Reality] Reference

I wound up the ribbon-like pasta and tender oxtail with my fork... and wow.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2008-02-01] Reference

This basically means that a ribbon-like strip will rest on top of the batter.    From Wordnik.com.  [How to Beat Egg Whites | Baking Bites] Reference

Solitary wove in the ribbon-like pieces, showing great familiarity with the work.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Lost Hunter A Tale of Early Times] Reference

He pointed to where a drift of the ribbon-like leaves lay under the nearest tree.    From Wordnik.com.  [Dread Companion]

Here, too, were plants which threw forth long, ribbon-like leaves of variegated color.    From Wordnik.com.  [Cord and Creese] Reference

They were of all possible forms, though the form of ribbon-like bands seemed to be commonest.    From Wordnik.com.  [The South Pole~ The End of the Winter] Reference

Roll up fungus into a cigar shape and thinly slice crosswise to make thin ribbon-like shreds.    From Wordnik.com.  [Tigers & Strawberries » An Evening With Grace Young] Reference

She plodded doggedly ahead, the ribbon-like "chain" creeping like a serpent, on and on before her.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Furnace of Gold] Reference

The goal is to create a unique design every time by varying the table's intricate, ribbon-like legs.    From Wordnik.com.  [Finding Creativity in Computer Models] Reference

You can also substitute the ribbon-like kway teow with a round-stranded rice noodle, as can be seen below.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2006-04-01] Reference

One obvious reference is Toyo Ito's Tod's Headquarters in Tokyo, with its criss-crossing, ribbon-like skin.    From Wordnik.com.  [Guy Horton: At Home in Manhattan: Park51 as Global Architecture] Reference

The staple is short, and the twist inferior to other grades, the straight ribbon-like filaments being quite numerous.    From Wordnik.com.  [Nitro-Explosives: A Practical Treatise] Reference

Fig. 146 shows a monogram composed of the letters I.G. ornamented and bound together by a ribbon-like interlacing band.    From Wordnik.com.  [Embroidery and Tapestry Weaving] Reference

We will fly for weeks, leaving a message in ribbon-like formation across the sky – Any Disillusioned Human Come On Board.    From Wordnik.com.  [365 tomorrows » 2009 » June : A New Free Flash Fiction SciFi Story Every Day] Reference

They went down the driving-road, and out upon the long, ribbon-like roads that zigzagged the plains, connecting the dotted villages.    From Wordnik.com.  [Maurice Guest] Reference

This is the root of a plant something like the cat-tail in looks -- that is, it has the same kind of long, narrow ribbon-like leaves.    From Wordnik.com.  [Bunny Brown and His Sister Sue Keeping Store] Reference

Their hearts thumping loudly again, the four children piled the thickly growing seaweed, with its great ribbon-like fronds, all over themselves.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Sea of Adventure]

It is noted for its winter-blooming, mildly fragrant, red to copper-red flowers to 1 long, each having four, narrow, ribbon-like, crinkly petals.    From Wordnik.com.  [Faire Diane « Fairegarden] Reference

Maine settlements are scattered in a ribbon-like pattern all along the winding, rocky coast, making it hard to unify them into a single community.    From Wordnik.com.  [History of American Women] Reference

But the only oil reporters saw today, during our three-hour tour, was a ribbon-like line of black at the waterline of the most of the marsh grasses.    From Wordnik.com.  [BP Keeps Look Out For Vanishing Gulf Oil] Reference

Readers gripped them by handles and developed dexterity in rolling and unrolling a ribbon-like text, so the page was not the dominant unit of perception.    From Wordnik.com.  [Robert Darnton: Reading, Now and Then] Reference

When Ezra came he found Naomi looking toward the road that wound ribbon-like past the Bethlehem inn down into the land of the Pharaohs, the country of the Sphinx and the Pyramids.    From Wordnik.com.  [Christmas Light] Reference

Eelgrass A simple ribbon-like flowering plant that lives in the sea.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Guardian World News] Reference

It winds in and out for the most part, ribbon-like, through thick coppice of chestnut and birch.    From Wordnik.com.  [The League of the Scarlet Pimpernel] Reference

Instead, they concentrated on the sole problem of getting a ribbon-like something into a Mac window.    From Wordnik.com.  [MacNewsWorld] Reference

The simple rectilinear venation of ribbon-like fronds, usually much broken, that occurs in the Lower Old.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Testimony of the Rocks or, Geology in Its Bearings on the Two Theologies, Natural and Revealed] Reference

Like the Mangshan glacier, it was in horizontal ribbon-like strata of beautifully clear ice, showing no dirt bands.    From Wordnik.com.  [In the Forbidden Land] Reference

He leaned over the rail and followed the course of the ribbon-like path which wound like a snake among the curling waves and jagged rocks.    From Wordnik.com.  [El Diablo] Reference

It seemed surprising, too, that his long ribbon-like tail should have escaped catching in the thick foliage through which he rapidly flew.    From Wordnik.com.  [In the Eastern Seas] Reference

Something between a sculpture and a painting, it unfolds as lengths of ribbon-like colors that cling to the southern wall and ceiling of the restaurant.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Real Deal New York - Latest News] Reference