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Meanings of reedlike in English

Resembling a reed in being upright and slender.

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Examples for "reedy"
1
Don't talk, she said, and that lovely voice was reedy and wasted.
Summers at Castle Auburn
2
All the water seems to drain into the reedy swamp and clay-pans.
Explorations in Australia / The Journals of John McDouall Stuart...
3
She leans closer to Anna, lowering her voice to a reedy whisper.
Those who save us
4
Their reedy sibilance built steadily until the spaceplane rocked on its undercarriage.
The Reality Dysfunction
5
Reuel, now throwing one reedy leg over the side of the cab.
The talisman
Usage of reedlike in English
1
See the rocks down there? He lifted Richard's head on the reedlike neck.
The talisman
2
Decisively, now, burst forth the reedlike chords of music.
Where the Sabots Clatter Again
3
The Wisdom Servant, deprived of its animating field, had collapsed into a tangle of reedlike protuberances.
The Mammoth Book of Steampunk
4
The few men in evidence were also slender; reedlike figures emphasized by form-fitting clothes, gestures rapid, stances balletically defiant.
The bourne identity
5
It was woven of reedlike wooden strips, a deep brown instead of the straw color she was used to seeing.
The lake
Reedlike through the time