With a jerk of the cars in a chainlike reaction, they began their two-day journey to Texas.    From Wordnik.com.  [Deuces Wild] Reference

It was a dragon of the old legends, its head a wedge-shaped spike that effortless plowed from the ground, followed by a chainlike neck, and finally a great body made of metal ribs.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Brothers' War]

    It was a dragon of the old legends, its head a wedge-shaped spike that effortless plowed from the ground, followed by a chainlike neck, and finally a great body made of metal ribs.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Brothers' War]

To complaints of this kind — which have been voiced with regard to the earlier books as well — defenders of Rushdie have responded by arguing that he works, and should therefore be read, within two narrative traditions: of the Western novel (with its subgenre, the anti-novel à la Tristram Shandy), and of Eastern story-cycles like the Panchatantra, with their chainlike linking of self-contained, shorter narratives.    From Wordnik.com.  [Palimpsest Regained] Reference

Notice the chainlike pattern on the back of the diamond-backed water snake at top.    From Wordnik.com.  [seMissourian.com Headlines] Reference

MIT researchers coaxed tiny, chainlike molecules to arrange themselves into complex patterns, like this one, on a silicon chip.    From Wordnik.com.  [D Mag - News] Reference

MIT researchers coaxed tiny, chainlike molecules to arrange themselves into complex patterns, like this one, on a silicon chip (Image: Yeon Sik Jung and Joel Yang).    From Wordnik.com.  [Gizmag Emerging Technology Magazine] Reference