Definitions
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- adjective Resembling a
lake or some aspect of one.
Etymologies
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Examples
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But those who consider Tchaikovsky to be a composer of more than treacle will wish that Dudamel had not made the quiet ocean portrayed at the start of "The Tempest" quite so lakelike, or the funereal close of "Romeo and Juliet" quite so matter-of-fact.
CD review: Gustavo Dudamel conducts Tchaikovsky's Shakespeare overtures 2011
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The “Butterfly Garden” was a narrow, glass-walled conservatory full of exotic plants, overlooking the greater basin of the Charles River: the wide, lakelike head of the Charles that fed off Boston Harbor, before it narrowed to the icy glut that had coughed up Vasco.
DEVILS IN EXILE Chuck Hogan 2010
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The “Butterfly Garden” was a narrow, glass-walled conservatory full of exotic plants, overlooking the greater basin of the Charles River: the wide, lakelike head of the Charles that fed off Boston Harbor, before it narrowed to the icy glut that had coughed up Vasco.
DEVILS IN EXILE Chuck Hogan 2010
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Certain roads were built like natural arroyos, with dips in the middle to channel the runoff into the big parks, like A Street Park, which for the majority of its historical life had been a buffalo wallow and filled up, lakelike, when it rained.
Spoken from the Heart Laura Bush 2010
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The “Butterfly Garden” was a narrow, glass-walled conservatory full of exotic plants, overlooking the greater basin of the Charles River: the wide, lakelike head of the Charles that fed off Boston Harbor, before it narrowed to the icy glut that had coughed up Vasco.
DEVILS IN EXILE Chuck Hogan 2010
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The “Butterfly Garden” was a narrow, glass-walled conservatory full of exotic plants, overlooking the greater basin of the Charles River: the wide, lakelike head of the Charles that fed off Boston Harbor, before it narrowed to the icy glut that had coughed up Vasco.
DEVILS IN EXILE Chuck Hogan 2010
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Certain roads were built like natural arroyos, with dips in the middle to channel the runoff into the big parks, like A Street Park, which for the majority of its historical life had been a buffalo wallow and filled up, lakelike, when it rained.
Spoken from the Heart Laura Bush 2010
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In conclusion, these images mean that there are large specular reflectors down on Titan with lakelike shapes.
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The sunlight breaking-suddenly on his sight turned the sky and clouds into a fantastic world of sombre masses with lakelike spaces of dark rosy light.
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Less than two deks to the southeast and several hundred yards lower, the rushing water smoothed into an almost lakelike surface.
The Soprano Sorceress Modesitt, L. E. 1997
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