Leaf monkeys watch the whole scene from the massive, fanlike roofs.    From Wordnik.com.  [Buddha’s Savage Peace] Reference

The river was splitting into a dozen smaller streams, shaping out fanlike.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Time Traders] Reference

The typical fanlike mycelial growth can be observed in the bark of infected oaks.    From Wordnik.com.  [Northern Nut Growers Association Report of the Proceedings at the 44th Annual Meeting Rochester, N.Y. August 31 and September 1, 1953] Reference

Widening out in fanlike fashion, it is inserted into the pyramidal process of the os pedis.    From Wordnik.com.  [Diseases of the Horse's Foot] Reference

Now, the issue with skate wings is that they have a "skeleton" which is a fanlike piece of cartilege.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2004-03-01] Reference

Placing his thumbs together, he spread his thin fingers in a fanlike pattern and spoke, "Kair tangus miopiar.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Dragons of Autumn Twilight]

Patch lunged, feinted with his blade, then swept a fanlike stroke across his body, aimed at decapitating Conan.    From Wordnik.com.  [Conan the Fearless]

To it was attached in a beautiful fanlike design some three dozen large turkey or eagle feathers whose purpose was mysterious.    From Wordnik.com.  [Poland]

Then he began making short casts in a fanlike pattern, starting parallel to the bank and moving outward with each successive cast.    From Wordnik.com.  [By The Wader's Edge] Reference

“I am properly chagrined,” Lucas said, the splayed fingers of one well-shaped but calloused hand spread fanlike over his heart.    From Wordnik.com.  [Pirates] Reference

Despite its immense size, the armored animal landed gracefully in a clearing and tucked its thick, fanlike tail underneath its body.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Search For WondLa] Reference

I saw at once the virtues of this particular tree-no snow fell under them; the fanlike boughs caught the falling snow like umbrellas.    From Wordnik.com.  [Drums of Autumn]

When the moon etched silver bars upon the corncrib floor he went to bed, regretting the preposterous fanlike spread of the corncrib walls.    From Wordnik.com.  [Kenny] Reference

Brass lamps hung from the walls and the earthy floor was worn and smooth; as they walked, their shadows rippled, fanlike, across the wall.    From Wordnik.com.  [Harry Potter And The Deathly Hallows]

In the pale path before Slone, that fanlike slope of sand which opened down into the valley, appeared a swiftly moving black object, like a fleeing phantom.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Boy Scouts Book of Campfire Stories] Reference

All the elephants uttered a strange rumbling noise, and made off in a line to the northward at a brisk ambling pace, their huge fanlike ears flapping in the ratio of their speed.    From Wordnik.com.  [International Weekly Miscellany - Volume 1, No. 7, August 12, 1850] Reference

The fanlike leaves of the palm served for paddles.    From Wordnik.com.  [My First Voyage to Southern Seas] Reference

They have a fanlike blade that tears off the top of grass blades.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Altoona Mirror] Reference

They wheeled their ponies and scattered out in fanlike formation.    From Wordnik.com.  [Bloom of Cactus] Reference

They have a fanlike blade that tears off the top of grass blades.    From Wordnik.com. Reference

Why -- it was a slender palm-tree, which stretched its fanlike foliage over her!.    From Wordnik.com.  [Dope] Reference

The wind whipped the fountain jet, and a fanlike cloud of spray drifted off across the asphalt.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Young Man in a Hurry and Other Short Stories] Reference

Flames, fanlike and pallid, now flickered about his feet, streamed in the gutters and lapped the curbs.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Happy End] Reference

From the hill crotch the sun was already pouring down a great, fanlike shaft of light across the snow vista.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Yukon Trail A Tale of the North] Reference

It clucked at Bob, but refused to move faster, lifting its feet deliberately and spreading its fanlike tail.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Rules of the Game] Reference

The mountain was breathing slowly and heavily -- a vast flare that lifted fanlike in the skies and died away.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Best Short Stories of 1920 and the Yearbook of the American Short Story] Reference

A wet wind swished through the low, fanlike branches of the redwoods; the creek was rushing high and noisily.    From Wordnik.com.  [Sisters] Reference

History: Have been around for nearly 100 years; they have a fanlike blade that tears off the top of grass blades.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Altoona Mirror] Reference

The fog was lighter here, and he could see the strange, bottle-shaped kilns with their orange, fanlike tongues of fire.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Picture of Dorian Gray] Reference

The head of the herd had burst through the entrance to the Hole, and, opening fanlike, had gone headlong into the quicksand.    From Wordnik.com.  [Square Deal Sanderson] Reference

They spread thence, in fanlike fashion, from Laos to Assam, and the middle section ultimately descended the Menam to the sea.    From Wordnik.com.  [Hinduism and Buddhism, An Historical Sketch, Vol. 3] Reference

Others resembled strange beasts, and on the sides of the cave were fanlike ivory tracings, such as the frost leaves upon a pane.    From Wordnik.com.  [King Solomon's Mines] Reference