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The blocks in each module move around the blocks in other modules following a lattice system, while the joints in each module allow them to flex and link together in chainlike arrays.

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With a jerk of the cars in a chainlike reaction, they began their two-day journey to Texas.

Deuces Wild Dusty Richards 2004

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.

The Brothers' War Grubb, Jeff 1998

    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.

The Brothers' War Grubb, Jeff 1998

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.

Palimpsest Regained Coetzee, J.M. 1996

Johnson notes that this snake could be misidentified as the Western cottonmouth, but knowing to look for that chainlike dark pattern on the back will help in identification.

seMissourian.com Headlines 2010

MIT researchers coaxed tiny, chainlike molecules to arrange themselves into complex patterns, like this one, on a silicon chip.

D Mag - News 2010

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)

Gizmag Emerging Technology Magazine 2010

Notice the chainlike pattern on the back of the diamond-backed water snake at top.

seMissourian.com Headlines 2010

The atmosphere is not chainlike, or the same from church to church, and people don’t get lost in the crowd, he said.

Small groups embrace Christian gatherings 2004