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Resembling or characteristic of powder in texture.
‘a powder-like substance, suspected to be cocaine’
‘If the burning chemical is a powder-like substance such as lime, brush it off the skin before flushing.’
‘Finely chop the leaves, preferably with a mezzaluna, so that they almost become powder-like.’
‘Specialists say contaminated heroin or another powder-like substance used to dilute the drug may have spread the disease.’
‘A packet containing a powder-like chemical was also seized.’
‘My typical day in Jambiani would start at 6.30 a.m., with a one-hour walk along the powder-like sandy beaches.’
‘The ground-down powder-like wood particles will be used at Drax Power Station, for the UK's first-ever full-scale trials of co-firing willow with coal.’
‘The toxin may be in the form of a powder-like substance that animals are either eating or walking through.’
‘The air was darkened with a whirling, seething mass of powder-like snow which appeared to come up from the ground as well as down from the sky.’
‘In preparing edible sumac, the hairy coating is first removed from the berries, which are then ground to powder-like consistency.’
‘The resultant powderlike debris lodged permanently in the patient's body and caused a wide range of painful and debilitating complications.’