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Definition of Tentlike
1. resembling a tent [adj]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Tentlike
Literary usage of Tentlike
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Monthly Microscopical Journal: Transactions of the Royal Microscopical (1876)
"The method in which the shelly coatings of successive segments meet each
other,—singly, in the simple tentlike setting-on of the new chamber; doubly, ..."
2. Woman: In All Ages and in All Countries by Mitchell Carroll, Alfred Brittain, Edward Bagby Pollard, Pierce Butler, John Robert Effinger, Hugo Paul Thieme, Hermann Schoenfeld, Bartlett Burleigh James, John Ruse Larus (1908)
"... who were accustomed to light, tentlike structures that could be readily taken
down and erected elsewhere as their changing habitat directed. ..."
3. A Critical and Exegetical Commentary on the Second Epistle of St. Paul to by Alfred Plummer (1915)
"V. 11 affirm this because we know well that, if the tentlike body which is our
earthly dwelling should be taken down, God supplies us with a better building ..."
4. Woman: In All Ages and in All Countries by Edward Bagby Pollard, Mitchell Carroll, Alfred Brittain, Pierce Butler, John Robert Effinger, Hugo Paul Thieme, Hermann Schoenfeld, Bartlett Burleigh James, John Ruse Larus (1908)
"... who were accustomed to light, tentlike structures that could be readily taken
down and erected elsewhere as their changing habitat directed. ..."
5. Peter Moors Fahrt nach Südwest: Ein Feldzugsbericht by Gustav Frenssen (1914)
"... large tentlike huts made by laying coarsely woven mats over dome-shaped
skeletons of stout branches. As is true of many of the uncivilized or partly ..."
6. A History of the Ancient World by George Willis Botsford (1911)
"It was semicircular in form, with a pointed, tentlike roof, whose rafters were
masts of Persian vessels taken at Salamis. THESEUM (From a photograph) In it ..."
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