As he drew near, the bladelike shapes quivered visibly.    From Wordnik.com.  [Sentenced To Prism]

The bladelike edges sliced into his neck, finishing him instantly.    From Wordnik.com.  [Unicorn Point]

The bladelike projections behaved like serpents, attacking and recoiling repeatedly.    From Wordnik.com.  [Reap the Whirlwind] Reference

Shanks are bladelike weapons that prisoners make from found pieces of metal or plastic.    From Wordnik.com.  [Menendez Justice] Reference

Certainly his features were too narrow, his nose too bladelike for any full-blood anywhere.    From Wordnik.com.  [Operation Luna]

PUTTER Mr. Thomas prefers mallets, for their extra forgiveness compared with bladelike putters.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Gear Guy Speaks] Reference

Snout and head were boldly striped, but the high, bladelike, inde-pendently rotating ears were not.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Howling Stones]

Zero called to Casey, who was by now a third of the way back, her bladelike stroke barely creasing water.    From Wordnik.com.  [The End of the Pier]

He set the bulb carefully down and leaned just slightly toward the other, his hands relaxed yet bladelike.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Fire Upon the Deep]

E G H T The bladelike shrieks of laughter had come from another boat angling across Maud's line of vision.    From Wordnik.com.  [The End of the Pier]

As you can see, these are not turbine-like, they have a large, solid core, and widely separated poles, completely un-bladelike, surrounding the core.    From Wordnik.com.  [Wells vs tiny flies - The Panda's Thumb] Reference

Around the clearing they darted, the sword glinting in the waning light of the moon, the blade slicing the air, the dark shape's bladelike claws flashing past.    From Wordnik.com.  [Stone of Tears]

We found pictures and designs of a craft they called a helicopter, which had a bladelike propeller on the top, and, according to the specs, could hover as well as fly.    From Wordnik.com.  [Eve's Rib]

Her features fell sharply back from the bladelike prominence of her nose, around which, Cynthia suspected, her countersunk eyes must have had trouble focusing on anything that loomed too close.    From Wordnik.com.  [Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine]

Although the Parisian architect Jean-Paul Viguier designed the striking, cantilevered, bladelike, at once slick and luxurious structure, its unusual footprint and modernist look respond marvelously to its site and neighborhood, and Viguier's heroic efforts to "bring the sun into the project" show a sensitivity to both the city's climate and its architectural heritage, which virtually fetishizes openness and natural light.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Not-So-Second City] Reference

His stern was still erect, bladelike, his hackles almost as stiff as before.    From Wordnik.com.  [Jan A Dog and a Romance] Reference

His playing is impressive, with fast action, bladelike articulation and a full-featured tone.    From Wordnik.com.  [NYT > Home Page] Reference

With its long, bladelike leaves, we figured the mystery plant was some lily relative, maybe in the iris family.    From Wordnik.com.  [SFGate: Top News Stories] Reference

Their teeth were also larger than gray wolves ', and their upper carnassials were bladelike for slicing meat off bone.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Acorn] Reference

University of Calgary (Nicholas Longrich) This photo provided by the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences shows the bladelike slashing claw from the second toe of the foot, on a Canadian quarter for scale, of a small velociraptor-like dinosaur discovered by Canadian researchers.    From Wordnik.com.  [seMissourian.com Headlines] Reference

We’d planted the onions between sap runs in March, and now we had ten thousand small, green, bladelike sprouts striving to grow.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Dirty Life] Reference

She flashed him a dark and bladelike smile.    From Wordnik.com.  [the dirty duck]

All came at once flying towards her, -- speckled, white, and gleamy with hues between of tawny orange-gold, -- the cocks, magnificent with the bladelike waving of their tails, -- and, as they chattered and cackled and pressed and crowded about her, pecking the corn, even where it lodged in the edge of her little shoes, she said, "Poor things, I am glad they enjoy it!".    From Wordnik.com.  [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 04, No. 22, August, 1859] Reference

On the other hand, regular hedgerow plants, like cleavers, chervil, herb Robert, milfoil, and most ferns, which grow in the tangled shady undermath of the bank and thickets, have usually slender, bladelike, much-divided leaves, all split up into little long narrow pushing segments, because they cannot get sunlight and air enough to build up a single large respectable rounded leaf.    From Wordnik.com.  [Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 8] Reference