They were as dry as human fingers and they were rimmed with little fingerlike knobs.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ringworld]

Around their sensitive nostrils they have a rosette of 22 pink, fleshy, fingerlike projections.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Field Guide to Wildlife Habitats of the Eastern United States] Reference

The tongues are forked and pointed; the wide, thick lips have little fingerlike knobs along the rims.    From Wordnik.com.  [Neutron Star]

In the Midwest and many other parts of the country, there are hillsides composed of fingerlike ridges.    From Wordnik.com.  [Using Stealth to Hunt Trophy Whitetail Bucks] Reference

Above a ~ 17g the rim of the hole becomes unstable, producing fingerlike protrusions or hole division.    From Wordnik.com.  [Faraday's Wave Garden] Reference

She resisted fear as the dragon flexed its fingerlike toes and police cars arrived surrounding the area.    From Wordnik.com.  [Arcana Magi Rush] Reference

These thin, fingerlike branches winding their spidery tendrils around everything-what are they doing here?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Dark Dreams]

The impact bent the dragon's fingerlike claws back, and the screeching sound of the spell rattled its ears.    From Wordnik.com.  [Arcana Magi Rush] Reference

"Approximately four feet across...fingerlike tips extruding all the way to Sister Anne's soda bottle birdhouse.".    From Wordnik.com.  [The first paragraph contest thread] Reference

The Archa's limbs spasmed; the fingerlike cilia brushed like butterfly wings while the saws raked Sharina's back.    From Wordnik.com.  [Lord of the Isles] Reference

Normally, nutrients are absorbed in the small intestine, which is lined with tiny fingerlike projections called villi.    From Wordnik.com.  [Zeroing In On Gluten] Reference

We have a Classical Chinese Garden here, and they grow Buddha's Hand citron, the one with all the weird fingerlike protrusions.    From Wordnik.com.  [Citron Odyssey] Reference

After a spring and early summer of torrential rains, the hand-shaped pond, with its five fingerlike coves, was full — shockingly so.    From Wordnik.com.  [Another Hamptons Whodunit] Reference

As it pops from its shell, the egg is “caught” by the fimbria, the fingerlike ends of the fallopian tube, and then gently swept inside.    From Wordnik.com.  [Getting Pregnant] Reference

As you read earlier, the fimbriated or “fingerlike” ends of the tube “catch” your egg as it is ovulated and gently guide it inside.    From Wordnik.com.  [Getting Pregnant] Reference

Despite the lack of leaves, the blackened trunks and fingerlike branches filled in all gaps, making the forest a huge ruin of impenetrability.    From Wordnik.com.  [Half Upon a Time] Reference

The lead researcher, Dr. Jeff Hester of Arizona State University, is particularly interested in the fingerlike projections on the surface of the columns.    From Wordnik.com.  [Witness At The Creation] Reference

Finally, the genome, the bacterial membrane, and the endosymbiotic vesicle membrane were totally lost, and fingerlike protrusions with microtubules formed.    From Wordnik.com.  [ID Research, Look to the Example] Reference

Normally, when food enters the small intestine, critical nutrients are absorbed into the bloodstream through masses of tiny fingerlike projections called villi.    From Wordnik.com.  [Waiter, Please Hold the Wheat] Reference

During this procedure, your doctor will make an incision near the fimbriated fingerlike end of the tube, so that the blockages or damaged tissue can be removed.    From Wordnik.com.  [Getting Pregnant] Reference

Two were splayed into jointed swordblades or toothed flails; two reached out, capable of manipulation with fingerlike cilia; two were legs, chitinous and insectile.    From Wordnik.com.  [Lord of the Isles] Reference

We stalked ridges in gusty snowstorms, slogged down trails thick with fresh prints, and inched our way along some very promising fingers (hillsides with fingerlike spurs).    From Wordnik.com.  [Using Stealth to Hunt Trophy Whitetail Bucks] Reference

The Helan Mountain Range, about 180 kilometers (km) long with a maximum elevation of 3,556 meters (m), extends north as a fingerlike extension of the Tibet-Qinghai Plateau.    From Wordnik.com.  [Helanshan montane conifer forests] Reference

Keep following the fingerlike oil slicks speckled orange and brown that threaten it still.    From Wordnik.com.  [detnews.com - Autos Insider] Reference

The slick tapered into fingerlike tentacles reaching - and truly heading - northeast toward the coast.    From Wordnik.com.  [WHAT REALLY HAPPENED] Reference

It resembles an ocean drained of water, dotted with flames of orange flowers from fingerlike ocotillo cacti.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Texas Observer: In the Current Issue] Reference

The mucosa of the small intestine contains many folds that are covered with tiny fingerlike projections called villi.    From Wordnik.com.  [Recently Uploaded Slideshows] Reference

The appendix is a small fingerlike pouch attached to the beginning of the large intestine in the right lower quadrant of the abdomen.    From Wordnik.com.  [Boston Weather, Breaking News and Sports from WBZ-TV] Reference

If someone with celiac disease eats gluten, the immune system damages the fingerlike projections (villi) that line the small intestine.    From Wordnik.com.  [Yahoo! Weather - Lexington, KY] Reference

However, straight-line winds of that speed can cause similar damage, and they can do it over a wider swath than what the fingerlike tornado does, Last said.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Green Bay Press-Gazette Latest Headlines] Reference

"What we found is that when you have a weblike structure, the growth rate of the baby in the womb is twice as much as when there is a fingerlike structure," said.    From Wordnik.com.  [NYT > Home Page] Reference

Study coauthor Wayne Trivelpiece has kept a close eye on penguins off the tip of the West Antarctic Peninsula, which points fingerlike at Argentina, since the 1970s.    From Wordnik.com.  [Wired Top Stories] Reference

It’s a four-foot-long, crocodile-headed fish with scales, gills – and primitive wrist- and fingerlike bones in its fins.    From Wordnik.com.  [Newsweek on Tiktaalik and Pandas - The Panda's Thumb] Reference

Her jacket sleeve is slightly torn at the shoulder and there’s brownish fingerlike marks on her wrist that I’m guessing came from a vampire gripping her hard.    From Wordnik.com.  [Slayed] Reference

Damaged fimbria the fingerlike ends of your tubes.    From Wordnik.com.  [Getting Pregnant] Reference