Usually they're implanted six at a time, in a fanlike pattern.

He arranged the photos fanlike on the floor and then examined them.

It spread out, fanlike, from roots in the original hull.

It will grow to about 12 feet, with fanlike leaves up to three feet across.

We began the search in the fanlike shape determined by the curve of the pond.

Above it, wondering eyes could detect the whirling of a fanlike wheel.

Thus the box in his hand cast a fanlike ray that covered every inch of the test room from floor to ceiling.

Douglas folded up the fanlike antenna and stowed it, then hit his bed.

A fanlike form in bright yellow with red lines conjures up Shell Oil.

He was standing at the top of a broad steep ramp which spread fanlike down to the base of the building.

Great fanlike extrusions dangled in space like wings or fins.

Almost as if at a signal a red puffball burst among the fanlike growths.

Marda, her beautiful dark hair spread out fanlike around her head, lay in a pool of blood.

Wave patterns result from fanlike folds made before dyeing.

She seemed to draw strength from the strange knobbly growths with wide fanlike leaves.

Some few glass sponges stuck up in clusters, and some fanlike sea fans.

The road cut through the stand of cocoa trees, though it was overgrown in- spots with big fanlike banana tree leaves.

It flowed fanlike down the wall, glistening wet.

Here, then, was the explanation of the fanlike spreading out of the line of Indians.

Arenas's humility comes through in his fanlike joy when discussing his collection.

For when he speaks of such fighters, it is with fanlike enthusiasm for their ferocity.

The right panel, inscribed "Renewal," has silver leaves that rise in a fanlike shape to suggest the growth of a tree.

Its fanlike form underscores the Asian motifs and suggests a traditional feminine accouterment.

With martial stride, the six stepped forward, spreading to form a fanlike rank in the wider space of the passage.

She remembered that the skinny cameraman with the fanlike ears on number three was Harlan's cousin.