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Example sentences for "shaped like"

  • After all, why should the earth be shaped like an apple, and not like a pear?

  • The world must exist, to have the shape of a pear; and that the world is shaped like a pear, and not like an apple, as the fools of Oxford say, I have satisfactorily proved in my book.

  • Generally the arrows had a tip of iron, shaped like a pyramid, pointed, though for shooting at birds the top was sometimes blunt, so that a bird might be struck down without being badly wounded.

  • The strings are sounded by a plectrum, or plucker, shaped like an ivory tooth, fastened to the fingers, and drawn backwards and forwards so rapidly that it produces an almost continuous sweet dreamy sound.

  • Furnished with a dome; shaped like a dome.

  • On the green leaves, shaped like a sword-blade, swarm two newly-hatched families.

  • Here, in the heart of a cluster of flowers, the luxurious creature plaits a little pocket of white satin, shaped like a wee thimble.

  • Her nest, a marvel of gracefulness, is a satin bag, shaped like a tiny pear.

  • Defn: Shaped like a spindle; tapering at each end; as, a fusiform root; a fusiform cell.

  • Defn: Shaped like a fern or like the parts of a fern leaf.

  • A black mark on the throat, and a black band on the bill, which is shaped like a Hen's.

  • The rose-colored blossoms are two inches long, shaped like a bell or funnel, and appear only on the older cacti.

  • The flowers are about an inch and a half long and as wide, shaped like a bell, with very lovely cream-white and pale pink petals shading into deep pink at the tips.

  • They may be curved, or shaped like a crochet-hook, or have the sharp point placed at right angles to the shaft of the instrument.

  • The incision is made by means of a paracentesis knife, which is shaped like a tiny bistoury set at an angle to its handle (Fig.

  • Emmett’s hook, shaped like a button-hook, is useful to produce counter-pressure against the needle point.

  • Resembling a spatha, an instrument for stirring a liquid, shaped like an apothecary’s spatula.

  • When not in use it rests in a large ivory crotch, shaped like a rowlock, in the bow.

  • A little peg of walrus ivory, shaped like a flat-headed nail, is driven through the middle of the tip so that the edge of the head just projects into the groove.

  • The head is but roughly indicated, while the body is shaped like a slug, and is bifid at the pointed end to represent the hind flippers.

  • It is a long flat piece of bone or antler, shaped like a case knife, with a blade square at heel and point.

  • Then there was the vapour bath, which you took in a kind of box, with a hole for your head to stick out; a porcelain sitz bath; and a mysterious shower bath into which you secretively retired behind canvas curtains, shaped like a sentry box.

  • The shell, shaped like a little barrel or thimble, is open in front.

  • Under this arch are the two eyes, which are relatively enormous, exceedingly convex, shaped like a skull-cap and contiguous to the extent of leaving only a narrow groove for the insertion of the antennæ.

  • It is a roomy niche, shaped like a flattened ellipsoid, the length of which reaches some eighty to a hundred millimetres.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "shaped like" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.


    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    cases treated; command thee; commercial intercourse; dear grandmamma; gun and rifle fire; hear you; hour ahead; normal condition; police regulations; prolonged period; shaped blossoms; shaped body; shaped flowers; shaped form; shaped fruit; shaped leaves; shaped nests; shaped shield; shaped spots; shaped structure; shaped tube; shaped vessel; though whether; three specimens; would probably; young children