The runes seemed to wriggle, wormlike, faster and faster.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Irda]

There in the deep distance was a tiny wormlike thing wriggling along.    From Wordnik.com.  [Yon Ill Wind]

After a few handfuls he ended up spitting out a chewy, wormlike thing.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Three Furies] Reference

She did not get up, but crept, wormlike, right across the floor to his feet.    From Wordnik.com.  [Burmese Days] Reference

The thing's wormlike head remained fixed upon the shriek - ing, flying Aghar.    From Wordnik.com.  [Flint the King]

The snout was followed by a green and brown wormlike body with squat red legs.    From Wordnik.com.  [Pet Peeve]

Its a thread with a very damning message to Glen Beck and his wormlike followers.    From Wordnik.com.  [Think Progress » Church Uses Marquee To Speak Out Against Beck: ‘Sorry Mr Beck, Jesus Preached Social Justice’] Reference

They were now in a wormlike tunnel wending upward, festooned with spider webbing.    From Wordnik.com.  [Demons Don't Dream]

A great column of writhing, wormlike stomachs, pulsing with faint bioluminescence.    From Wordnik.com.  [Starfish] Reference

Inside the rind, the brain showed up as grayish pulp, indented by black wormlike sulci.    From Wordnik.com.  [Life Support] Reference

Cerryl tried ... and the wormlike chaos-fire flopped onto the bricks almost at his feet.    From Wordnik.com.  [The White Order]

These flattened wormlike organisms range from a millimeter to centimeters or rarely meters.    From Wordnik.com.  [Platyhelminthes] Reference

This is a reference to the fact that when vermiculite is heated, it expands into wormlike shapes.    From Wordnik.com.  [Vermiculite] Reference

The appendix is also called the vermiform appendix because of its wormlike (“vermiform”) shape.    From Wordnik.com.  [appendix] Reference

The creature was approximately 7-10 feet in length, wormlike, grey and "taffy" like in appearance.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2007-05-01] Reference

A few of the wormlike creatures still stirred, but most were already dead and lay limply in the dish.    From Wordnik.com.  [UNIFICATION] Reference

Kirk thought his original guess that the wormlike things were chemical messengers was probably right.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Three-Minute Universe] Reference

Only one thing chilled Bink: a region with small wormlike holes in the trunks of trees and surrounding rocks.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Spell For Chameleon]

The scene faded; and for a fleeting moment the graysmooth face topped by the wormlike hair of a Nunuli superimposed.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Battle of Forever]

Answer: Well, there were clearly bilaterans – wormlike critters with front and back ends and a left and right side.    From Wordnik.com.  [Deja vu all over again - The Panda's Thumb] Reference

Rolling up his left sleeve, Adams revealed a thick wormlike scar that sliced from his elbow almost down to his wrist.    From Wordnik.com.  [Transfer of Power] Reference

The wormlike thread of men wound round picquet after picquet, and throttled the sentries on the glacis, and at the gate.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Rise of Canada, from Barbarism to Wealth and Civilisation Volume 1] Reference

Eleven, purple, wormlike things with long, filament-limbs – lots of them – slithered around in one of my cargo holds.    From Wordnik.com.  [EMERGENCY REVIVAL • by Kevin Shamel] Reference

There were several of them, crawling around and munching on green leaves - not attractive insects, being spiny and wormlike.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Cat Who Sang For The Birds]

Oik is also used as a name for a particular species of tiny wormlike creature often used in microbiology and genectic studies.    From Wordnik.com.  [languagehat.com: OIK.] Reference

I did as he said, sneaking a last glimpse at his little body tunneling wormlike into the underbrush before I lowered my eyelids.    From Wordnik.com.  [In This Way I Was Saved] Reference

It was then that I saw the horrifying life form, writhing in anger, its wormlike body twisting and bending, silent yet screaming.    From Wordnik.com.  [French Word-A-Day:] Reference

Another flicker of light, wan and corpsish, appeared among the pillars, its reflections slipping wormlike up the lines of gold leaf.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Silicon Mage]

He eyed me with an air of dawning speculation, which I hoped had not been too much inspired by his memories of the wormlike Parisians.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Breath of Snow and Ashes]

Its wormlike form divides into thorax and abdomen.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Insect Folk] Reference

A dragon, wormlike monster,/slew once the hero bold.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Nibelungenlied Translated into Rhymed English Verse in the Metre of the Original] Reference

When these eggs hatch, the wormlike larva stage of the sod webworm begins.    From Wordnik.com.  [Stories: Local News] Reference