1The characters often shrink to insect-like proportions to avoid obstacles and detection.
2I saw one of the insect-like workers drop with motionless outstretched arms.
3Gollum rose slowly and crawled insect-like to the lip of the hollow.
4Almost without a break in the insect-like tickings the reply came:
5One of the races had been insect-like, the other vaguely reptilian.
6The ambulant buildings mostly have an ovoid, rather insect-like form.
7The air was full of the leaping, swimming insect-like figures.
8Coloured light shone from the insect-like dots of glowing LEDs.
9An insect-like head bobbed fitfully on a neck of metal.
10There, too, jutting into the lagoon, was the platform, with insect-like figures moving near it.
11Crouching, insect-like legs took up the last of its velocity and the engines went dark.
12The Chief in his insect-like contraption came bolting out of the hole which was the airlock.
13Mollusc-like and insect-like animals crept or swam, or shot themselves hither and thither in fantastic jumps.
14But the characters keep changing, moving insect-like in circles, then they're still as twigs, then withering, blooming.
15The shape moved, flexing, opening like a moth emerging from its chrysalis, stretching out spindly, insect-like limbs.
16An incurious, taciturn creature, this insect-like being.