A hairy insectlike flower.    From Wordnet, Princeton University. 

Vehicles moved insectlike through streets and sky.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Rebel Worlds]

It was no accident that they looked insectlike to human beings.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ender's Game]

Their insectlike bodies were the nightmares of humanity's childhood.    From Wordnik.com.  [Speaker for the Dead]

Tiny objects swirled insectlike around it, their purpose unimaginable.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Man Who Used the Universe]

Another face lurked beneath the first, something baleful and insectlike.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Skrayling Tree]

The flight begins with a gurgle and an insectlike “pent pent” sound.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Field Guide to Wildlife Habitats of the Eastern United States] Reference

Two men entered the bay, and as they stepped into the light he saw their insectlike faces.    From Wordnik.com.  [The I Inside]

I started having this recurring dream that there was a hovering, insectlike jackal in my bedroom.    From Wordnik.com.  [Sleepwalk With Me] Reference

Those horrid orbs locked onto Flint, opened wide in a white stare of almost insectlike detachment.    From Wordnik.com.  [Flint the King]

Intelligent, giant, insectlike creatures, the chaodyn are tall as men, with hard black-shelled bodies.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Hand of Chaos]

Its six insectlike feet skidded along the cobblestones, making a sound like sabers dragged along a brick wall.    From Wordnik.com.  [Behemoth] Reference

He said he believed they were in some kind of transition, and this was what gave them their insectlike appearance.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Skrayling Tree]

Toby had a reasonably close relationship with the big, insectlike thing — as nearly as anybody really could be sure.    From Wordnik.com.  [Furious Gulf]

Mael-grim's view tumbled dizzily into change as, with wiry, insectlike movements, the Gierjlings surrounded their captive.    From Wordnik.com.  [Shadowfane]

Three jumbo scoreboards showed the action: an emerald land with icy orbs, vaguely insectlike predators and plenty of gunfire.    From Wordnik.com.  [In Korea, popularity of Internet gaming prompts move to curb usage] Reference

Some suspect the insectlike drones are high-tech surveillance tools, perhaps deployed by the Department of Homeland Security.    From Wordnik.com.  [Cybugs] Reference

Their eerie, insectlike quality was given further substance by a translucent black sheen which spread over the surface of the other colors.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Skrayling Tree]

After that their appearance was unhuman, heads horned with sensors and antennae, blank visages, insectlike eyes that were optical amplifiers.    From Wordnik.com.  [Starfarers]

To them she, too, looked insectlike, and catching sight of her where she stood far below, David Hero glanced speculatively at his burly companion.    From Wordnik.com.  [Hero Of Dreams]

"The new order will be insectlike aliens in control, followed by other aliens, hybrids, abductees, and, finally, nonabductees" (The Threat, p. 253).    From Wordnik.com.  ['When Words Collide': An Exchange] Reference

She was named after a character in Doctor Who --- Chantho was an insectlike alien female who began every sentence with 'chan' and ended it with 'tho'.    From Wordnik.com.  [Kitten Chantho dies] Reference

Huge, sand-colored, and insectlike, it scrabbled at the bottom of a funneling pit, its ragged jaws opening like a crab's claw, like a Ner-akan mantrap.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Dark Queen]

The massive, tree-crunching tanks of the droid armies have a brutal beauty; there's visual wit in the insectlike robot soldiers who do the Trade Federation's dirty work.    From Wordnik.com.  [Star Wars: The Phantom Movie] Reference

UW engineers have built an insectlike robot with hundreds of tiny legs.    From Wordnik.com.  [Newswise: Latest News] Reference

Thermal-powered, insectlike robot crawls into microrobot contenders 'ring.    From Wordnik.com.  [Nano Tech Wire] Reference

Microelectromechanical Systems introducing an insectlike robot with hundreds of tiny legs.    From Wordnik.com.  [Newswise: Latest News] Reference

The concept appears to be the first to show such insectlike characteristics at the microscale, he said.    From Wordnik.com.  [PhysOrg.com - latest science and technology news stories] Reference

National Science Foundation and General Motors Co. Thermal-powered, insectlike robot crawls into microrobot contenders 'ring.    From Wordnik.com.  [Nano Tech Wire] Reference

First off, we were treated to a brand new trailer that shows off some of the new enemies, including the insectlike Collectors.    From Wordnik.com.  [GameSpot's News, Screenshots, Movies, Reviews, Previews, Downloads, and Features] Reference

Best-known for its Roomba and PackBot designs, iRobot is thinking big with its new Warrior -- and has tried its share of insectlike bots.    From Wordnik.com.  [ACM TechNews] Reference

Now they have flipped it over so the structures that acted like moving cilia are on the bottom, turning the chip into an insectlike robot.    From Wordnik.com.  [PhysOrg.com - latest science and technology news stories] Reference

Some wore insectlike headdresses.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Skrayling Tree]

The exotic, visiting thranx were insectlike.    From Wordnik.com.  [Dirge]

It squatted insectlike in the corner of his mind.    From Wordnik.com.  [Amaryllis] Reference

They were Irumclagians, tall, slim, hard-skinned, their insectlike faces impassive.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Game Of Empire]