wasplike

The sound had changed now to the wasplike buzzing, magnified a million times.

Another fifteen minutes, and a droning engine pierced the silence, wasplike.

It was followed by the wasplike snarl of a phaser bolt.

A couple of the larger, wasplike gnats landed.

The anquioc's main prey was a small, wasplike octopod known as the cliff.

It was difficult for me to accept the concept of a wasplike creature with a twenty to thirty foot wingspan.

The tiny black fiddler irritated her with his scratchy, wasplike buzzing.

"You didn't see any signs of this-" Japp indicated the little wasplike dart.

It is easily recognisable by its wasplike appearance although lacking the thin 'waist' of a true wasp.

Syrphid Flies: These insects are tiny wasplike creatures and brightly colored.

In Algeria there lives a wasplike insect known as Scolia ciliata.

Adults are bluish black and wasplike.

Her smooth, wasplike line was simply styling, and everything about her interior was cal- culated to add to the overall impression of speed.

He was a slender, wasplike man who moved with the languid, studied grace a certain segment of the aristocracy affected-and which Honor had always disliked.

Habitat differences in the food composition of the wasplike spider Argiope bruennichi (Scop.)

Q. A fuzzy caterpillar spun a cocoon in my daughter's bug jar, but instead of a moth or butterfly, a wasplike creature emerged.

It made a couple of wasplike dips as it fought turbulence and it disappeared right into the spinning murk, not quite dead on, but good.

There was half of a Dornier ground-effect plane, under gray plastic tarps, and then a wasplike black Suzuki racing bike on a homemade trailer.

Tugs and barges chug and glide up and down the river, while high overhead an occasional helicopter buzzes by, wasplike.

Sisko squinted through the blur of too-close focus to watch as two of the wasplike attackers coordinated a stab at the fighter's sensor array.

Fountains of white-green fire were exploding from the ruptured Jem'Hadar station as the aliens inside boiled out with the wasplike fury Dax had predicted.

She bit at her lip to keep from retching, her ears full of the vicious, wasplike buzzing snarl of arrows whisking over her, only inches away.

In the caretaker's apartment, Jack Torrance's head jerked around at the high, wasplike buzz of the approaching engine, and suddenly began to move laboriously toward the hallway again.

And meanwhile, hundreds of little wasplike attack "stingers" came at him from every possible direction - any he didn't deflect gave him a sharp reminder of his inadequacy.

Adele wasn't absolutely sure that her shout would've been enough to keep the pale woman from killing Vaughn's aide with the same wasplike skill that had eliminated the three assassins.