I still tinks he be a handsum boi, bat-like and all. From Wordnik.com. [Bat trasformation - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger?] Reference
Weird, bat-like creatures that cling to vegetation covered walls?. From Wordnik.com. [Lion Annual 1957] Reference
Note the bat-like extension of the wings all the way to the ankles. From Wordnik.com. [Life's Time Capsule: Pterosaur Restorations!] Reference
Only by choice OR by gravity, NOT constrained by bat-like skin flaps. From Wordnik.com. [Life's Time Capsule: Questions about Pterosaurs #1] Reference
It resembles a small flying hamster, with bat-like wings for its ears. From Wordnik.com. [Patamon Papercraft | Papercraft Paradise | PaperCrafts | Paper Models | Card Models] Reference
It looked for all the world like an immense pancake with bat-like wings. From Wordnik.com. [Around the World in Ten Days] Reference
"Fight Back," urges a scowling Leon, hanging bat-like from our lampposts. From Wordnik.com. [Is liberalism dead or alive] Reference
In one panel, Batman is all brooding and bat-like, cape drawn around him. From Wordnik.com. [Dave's Long Box] Reference
The Kongamato is a reported giant bat-like creature from the border area of Zambia. From Wordnik.com. [Mike Gellman: Mystery Meat] Reference
She had been as badly startled as the others by the appearance of the bat-like figure. From Wordnik.com. [Marjorie Dean, College Sophomore] Reference
Oh, that's right, he played the big bat-like alien with the glowing red eyes, didn't he?. From Wordnik.com. [Paperback of Lost in Translation is out!] Reference
Most unfortunate-looking fella too—frizzy hair, bat-like ears that stick up a mile high. From Wordnik.com. [The Shape-Shifter’s Curse] Reference
They'd been cursed with bat-like features and blessed with the only mango tree in the village. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2006-04-02] Reference
Julius Csotonyi he did this with Dimorphodon, but oddly used bat-like form with Ornithocheirus!. From Wordnik.com. [Life's Time Capsule: Questions about Pterosaurs #1] Reference
These were mostly of a dragonish or bat-like sort; Puddleglum did not know what any of them were. From Wordnik.com. [The Silver Chair]
Another, called the Winged-lizard, had bat-like wings and dreadful jaws armed with numerous teeth. From Wordnik.com. [Twilight and Dawn Simple Talks on the Six Days of Creation] Reference
There has been speculation that Snape is a vampire because he is often referred to as bat-like, etc. From Wordnik.com. [Just Finished Reading Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince] Reference
There were grisly feasts beneath the moon, across whose red disk a bat-like shadow incessantly swept. From Wordnik.com. [The Coming of Conan The Cimmerian]
Those who like pretention quickly realign their attentions, particularly with Anna Liu who is bat-like. From Wordnik.com. [The Russian and the Room, 10] Reference
The little creature on the bed had large, bat-like ears and bulging green eyes the size of tennis balls. From Wordnik.com. [Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets]
Not the typical bat-like image most artists do, but something a lot more mobile and nimble in dense forests. From Wordnik.com. [Life's Time Capsule: THINGS THAT SHOULD HAVE BEEN IN THE PTEROSAUR GALLERY...] Reference
Huldah Spiller would wear a blue dress, and she -- oh, the stupidity, the bat-like, doltish, blindness of it!. From Wordnik.com. [Judith of the Cumberlands] Reference
Why try to scare the criminal element with your bat-like appearance when being bat-shit crazy will do just fine. From Wordnik.com. [All-Star Batman and Robin the Boy Wonder #7 | Major Spoilers - Comic Book Reviews and News] Reference
"Monkey" -- a name fully warranted by his narrow watery eyes, enormous under-jaw, and huge projecting bat-like ears. From Wordnik.com. [Harper's Young People, March 23, 1880 An Illustrated Weekly] Reference
Humanity joined the Commonwealth when the Commonwealth stepped in to end a war between humans and the bat-like S'sinn. From Wordnik.com. [What I've Just Read: The Big Chunk of Ice] Reference
Her hair pushed over her face and a wave of sound covered her body as two bat-like baldheaded reptiles, flew over her. From Wordnik.com. [Arcana Magi Memorial - c.4] Reference
For my part, I have yet to see a single fossil or even a photo of one that proves bat-like wings beyond any reasonable doubt. From Wordnik.com. [Life's Time Capsule: Pterosaur Restorations!] Reference
Navy has released footage of a prototype of the X-47B, a stealthy, bat-like aircraft that it says is an aviation breakthrough. From Wordnik.com. [Drone Will Call Aircraft Carriers Home] Reference
A bat-like shuttle approaches the storm-tossed world of Kamino, landing on the platform in the middle of a torrential rainstorm. From Wordnik.com. [Star Wars Episode 2: Conquest of the Sith.] Reference
Here, the eye was first attracted to a black, bat-like creature that danced on the sand, and only later perceived the body above it. From Wordnik.com. [Lord of the Flies]
In fact, his bat-like hours – spent across early 2006 – were in the name of studying character, something Pearce takes seriously. From Wordnik.com. [Row Three » A Good Read: Recent Guy Pearce Interview - Where Cinema is more than just $100 Million productions] Reference
That said, I still think a bat-like shuffle-forcing wing structure would be maladaptive and work against pterosaurs rather than for them. From Wordnik.com. [Life's Time Capsule: Questions about Pterosaurs #1] Reference
He sat hunched up, as if his spirit were bat-like. From Wordnik.com. [Women in Love] Reference
He had bat-like wings, a tail, and on one foot was a cloven hoof. From Wordnik.com. [The Witch of Salem or Credulity Run Mad] Reference
The title card flaps its way across the screen on bat-like angel wings. From Wordnik.com. [Television Without Pity] Reference
Again, this is just the perception; maybe VY has bat-like hearing and eagle-eyed vision. From Wordnik.com. Reference
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