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Example sentences for "somewhat resembling"

  • Fruit, a little turbinate, or top-shaped, somewhat resembling a quince.

  • Sphenopteris too, and what seems to be a Phlebopteris, somewhat resembling P.

  • These organs are also of a less dense substance than elytra, something between coriaceous and membranous, which I shall express by the term pergameneous, as somewhat resembling parchment or vellum.

  • A skate with a curved blade, somewhat resembling in shape the rocker of a cradle.

  • I may mention in the passing, that some of the fragments of the shale in which the remains are embedded have been baked by the intense heat into an exceedingly hard, dark-colored stone, somewhat resembling basalt.

  • It has a peculiar odor, somewhat resembling creosote, which is a complex mixture of phenol derivatives.

  • Seed of the Hibiscus abelmoschus, somewhat resembling millet, brought from Egypt and the West Indies, and having a flavor like that of musk; musk seed.

  • Craved work, somewhat resembling an ~ or arrowhead; Ð a part of the ornaments of certain moldings.

  • An edentate mammal, of the genus Orycteropus, somewhat resembling a pig, common in some parts of Southern Africa.

  • Good birdlime is of a greenish colour, and sour flavour, somewhat resembling that of linseed oil; gluey, stringy, and tenacious.

  • The pyrolignous spirit, thus purified, is colourless, and limpid like alcohol; has an ethereous smell, somewhat resembling that of ants.

  • A very rich white cheese, somewhat resembling butter; for present use only.

  • Indium is a soft, white, durable metal, somewhat resembling cadmium, wholly destitute of crystalline structure.

  • The herb has an unpleasant odour, and an acrid, burning, nauseous taste, somewhat resembling that of tobacco.

  • A small inflamed tumour, or boil, at the edge of the eyelid, somewhat resembling a barleycorn.

  • Iodine is usually met with under the form of semi-crystalline lumps having a semi-metallic lustre, or in micaceous, friable scales, somewhat resembling plumbago or gunpowder.

  • Defn: Honeycomb; having cavities or cells, somewhat resembling those of a honeycomb; alveolate; favose.

  • Defn: Of a gray color, somewhat resembling that of iron freshly broken.

  • A nitrogenous substance, somewhat resembling albumin, which forms the chemical basis of elastic tissue.

  • I then dished him a piece of the cake, somewhat resembling in size and consistency a small brown dumpling, which he of course found wholly inedible, and became angry.

  • This day I had shot a curious bird, somewhat resembling a small turkey, in a tree.

  • We also found that after twice boiling the leaves a few minutes in water to extract the salt, and then an hour in a third water, the leaves formed a tender and palatable vegetable, somewhat resembling spinach.

  • After various attempts, I found I was working round a rocky hollow, somewhat resembling a crater, although the rock did not appear to be volcanic.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    break the next morning; felt disposed; going right; little north; met her; public prayer; religion itself; said sharply; somewhat analogous; somewhat curved; somewhat difficult; somewhat doubtful; somewhat flattened; somewhat irregular; somewhat less; somewhat remarkable; somewhat resembling; somewhat similar; somewhat surprised; still holds; the eyes; thick coating; visiting cards; went aloft; when attacked; will call