Definition of "ladderlike" [ladderlike]

• Resembling a ladder (device used for climbing). (adjective)

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• "Two of Smith's untitled, long vertical paintings, one from 1956 in which suggestions of Jackson Pollock shine forth from a ladderlike assemblage of forms, and another from 1958 in which blunt, Guston-like dark lines give form to a spray enamel surface, are some of the most exuberant objects in either show."
• "Before the treaty the American West consisted of the old Louisiana Purchase lands that rose in ladderlike fashion from the mouth of the Mississippi, climbed the courses of the Missouri, and touched the rocky, fog-shrouded shores of the Northwest."
• "We pulled the stairs to the attic down from the ceiling and made our way up the creaky ladderlike steps."