How To Use Spatulate In A Sentence
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The skin was thin and bloodless, the fingers spatulate, a swollen knob at each joint and knuckle.
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Shrubs: chittamwood (a bumelia also called gum-elastic), yaupon, spatulate-leaved hawthorn.
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The square or useful hand, the spatulate or active hand, the philosophic or knotty hand, the conic or artistic hand, the psychic or idealistic hand, the mixed hand, and the elementary or lowest hand.
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Her hands are spatulate and flat-nailed, pale, like the rest of her.
Angels Carry the Sun excerpt: Chapter One, In the Woods
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The flare of the coal illuminated a broad and spatulate nose, big mouth in a half-smile.
THE SERPENT'S MARK
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His arms were long, his hands huge, with spatulate, magnetic fingers and the soft, unerring touch of a poolshark.
LIGHT FINGERS
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Setae type range from being thin and highly branched, forming dense tomenta, to being broad and spatulate.
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However, most ducks and geese have spatulate bills, while our little friend had a long, pointed one.
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But the design of geckos ' feet, with their huge number of spatulate tips on every sera of every toe, allows many atoms to become intimate with a wall and act as a sort of glue.
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The skin was thin and bloodless, the fingers spatulate, a swollen knob at each joint and knuckle.
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Many have a distinctive pad over their noses; this pad is often endowed with odd bristles with spatulate tips.
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He tells us that a character dug in the dirt with “the tines of his stubby and spatulate fingers.”
2007 January 17 « One-Minute Book Reviews
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The skull is clearly broader and more spatulate, as well as longer, than the skull of Loxomma.
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The upper and lower incisors are broad and spatulate.
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By contrast, C. nipponica has 2-or 3-leaved stems, - or 5-or 7-foliolate basal leaves, cauline leaves with auriculate to amplexicaul petiolar bases, spatulate petals 5-6 mm, and apically margined seeds.
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The large spatulate fingers were cupped in toward the palms, the thumbs stiffly extended, nails white.
THE SERPENT'S MARK
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The radical leaves are hairy and rough, and are usually lobed, or lyrate; but, in some of the sorts, nearly spatulate, with the borders almost entire.
The Field and Garden Vegetables of America Containing Full Descriptions of Nearly Eleven Hundred Species and Varietes; With Directions for Propagation, Culture and Use.
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Plant eating dinosaurs generally have toes that are more spatulate.
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Broad spatulate leaves of olive and black backed the green bloom.
Shopgirls
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I had never seen these spatulate fingers, until my first boyfriend on our first date reached over to hold my hand.
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Viz inspected each wing in turn, men his enormous, formidably clawed feet, lastly the broad, spatulate tail.
The Lives of Felix Gunderson
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Her spatulate fingers tapped the floor plans of 5 Curzon Close.
Naked Cruelty
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That thumb - rough, slightly spatulate - bore the remnants of yesterday's work beneath its stubby nail.
FAMILY BLESSINGS
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The dorsal vertebrae have wide spatulate neural spines.
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He noticed for the millionth time that her fingertips were slightly spatulate, as if her body needed to touch more, feel more than other people.
The Secret Animal
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Chet came into the room and bowed with his hands pressed spatulate, a mark of respectful greeting.
TANK OF SERPENTS
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He had never brought Margaret here before, because Mr Allington had once told him, spatulate forefinger at his nose, that it had been built for the "dook" for his excesses, and it was in the quality of his love for her that he could not bear to think of her in association with anything base.
The Return of the Soldier
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If we no longer understand a word they are saying, then we may want to turn to those still willing to call a ‘spade’ a spade rather than a ‘fabricated long-handled domestic or industrial spatulate tool designed to lift and move material from one place to another’.
Archive 2008-03-09
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Curved on top, perfectly spatulate nails (a sign of intuitive insight), a healthy shell pink, crowning long, slender pianist fingers.
Anhedonia (excerpt)
