fanshaped

The low sun shot red shafts of light, fanshaped, up from a cloud-tumbled horizon.

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And yet -- I recognize the flowing auburn hair that I so love to stroke, to brush; the pouting lips that can make me smile, make me laugh out loud, or sometimes duck for cover; a fanshaped, mother-of-pearl barrette Isabella wears when she wants to look particularly coquettish.

Cat & Mouse Patterson, James 1997

Atop the massive skull, a fanshaped single ear flexed freely.

Flinx In Flux Foster, Alan Dean, 1946- 1988

Structure of face bony and melancholy, enlivened by keen fanshaped eyes and a crooked smile, generous and friendly.

Portrait of An Artist Laurie Lisle 1986

Tiny sessile things buried beneath the sand raised fanshaped probes.

Covergent Series Niven, Larry 1979

It was much like a great hand extended from the hills; two fingers, parted, formed a fanshaped valley.

Black Colossus Howard, Robert E. 1979

The rest of him wore shimmering bronze feathers, save where these became black-edged white on crest and on fanshaped tail.

The Earth Book of Stormgate Anderson, Poul, 1926-2001 1978

Striking out to the southwest, they spread out fanshaped, but not so far away that they could not hear the sound of each other's voices.

The Ranger Boys and the Border Smugglers Claude A. Labelle

Arriving at the marker, they branched out fanshaped as was their wont when they were in search of a trail or water.

The Ranger Boys and the Border Smugglers Claude A. Labelle

The old English line runs along the Hawthorn Ridge-top for some hundreds of yards, and then crosses a dip or valley, which is the broad, fanshaped, southern end of a fork of Y Ravine.

The Old Front Line John Masefield 1922