lifelike

How To Use lifelike In A Sentence

• The figures are always startlingly lifelike, yet never precisely to scale and always altered in some way.
• And then there were the bones-a bear's digit, with the great curved claw still attached; the complete vertebrae of a small snake, articulated and strung on a leather thong, so the whole string flexed in a lifelike manner; an assortment of teeth, ranging from a string of round, peglike things that Jamie said came from a seal, through the high-crowned, scythe-cusped teeth of deer, to something that looked suspiciously like a human molar. Dragonfly in Amber
• He was gazing idly at the baroque Italian candelabra in the painted dome above his head and reflecting how much more jolly it would have been if the posturing Loves and gilded amoretti had been replaced by lifelike models of the Board of Directors, when a subdued feminine voice in his ear startled him to attention. Sweet Danger
• The roses were carved to such lifelike details; the thorns seemed as if they could draw blood.
• Every day when he is not landscaping gardens for the island's wealthy, he fashions lifelike works of art much to the curiosity of admiring visitors.
• Improbably, the result was worth it: The titivated Jumbo was so lifelike that he looked ready to charge at spectators—and, presumably, he still would, had his artificial hide not caught fire and burned him to a crisp in 1972. Wildlife Without Life
• Toys ‘R’ Us is selling a toy building styled on a Barbie doll's house with four rooms including lifelike furniture.
• It has lifelike graphics and online co-operative gaming. Times, Sunday Times
• a lifelike portrait
• a lifelike pose