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We look around to see if we can fashion a stretcher from tree branches and our packs, but the insect-like vegetation isn't sturdy enough for poles.

Richard Bangs: Following Brad and Angelina to Namibia, Part II Richard Bangs 2011

We look around to see if we can fashion a stretcher from tree branches and our packs, but the insect-like vegetation isn't sturdy enough for poles.

Richard Bangs: Following Brad and Angelina to Namibia, Part II Richard Bangs 2011

Best of all are Theo Jansen's amazing self-powered insect-like structures that seem to be alive as they walk across a beach.

Tonight's TV highlights Martin Skegg 2010

There is a touch of Buñuel's The Exterminating Angel here and also Claude Chabrol and his trained ethnographer's beady eye for insect-like behaviour as he surveys various strains of bourgeois depravity.

Roman Polanski's Carnage is a joyously unpleasant film 2012

The lonely voyager through the cosmos finds world after world, some worlds inhabited by races of bird-clouds, some by insect-like creatures, each of whose swarms form the bodies of a single mind.

The stars of modern SF pick the best science fiction 2011

I'm talking about the insect-like, nasty ass space monsters we think will invade Earth.

Ari Solomon: Alien Nation Ari Solomon 2011

Human colonists have developed tenuous relations with the locals: the Ariekei, a winged, insect-like race with two mouths that speak simultaneously.

A Literary Shape-Shifter Alexandra Alter 2011

His early work, especially the cause célèbre "The Elementary Particles," is really less a novel than a treatise on biological determinism, full of ex cathedra pronouncements about the bestiality of human nature and showy pornography meant to illustrate man's mindless, insect-like urge to copulate.

Reflections on Self-Regard Sam Sacks 2012

I'm talking about the insect-like, nasty ass space monsters we think will invade Earth.

Ari Solomon: Alien Nation Ari Solomon 2011

Longtime Mad Dog customers were taken aback by the young men fist-pumping while digital swarms of an insect-like race called "Zerg" battled the humanoid "Protoss" on the bar's TVs.

Geeks Beat Jocks as Bar Fight Breaks Out Over Control of the TV Amir Efrati 2011