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• s  shaped like a sword blade

• But in that time, the swordlike blast, whistling 90 miles per hour, laid waste six thickly populated square miles.
• The stabbings appeared to have resulted from a swordlike instrument rather than a common knife, which at first led to rumors of ritualistic killings, but the apparent frenzy of .
• But in the low and middle registers she sang with flutelike purity, tender and yet sharply disciplined, and in the upper reachesshrill or notshe flashed a swordlike power .

• ensiform
• sword-shaped
• bladelike