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