How To Use boat-shaped In A Sentence
- Behind them rumbled an impressive line of Russian BTR-60 PK armoured personnel-carriers, huge, boat-shaped amphibious ones. KARA KUSH
- As nectar is already secreted for her in its receptacle, she thrusts her tongue through the channel provided to guide it aright, and by the slight contact with the furrowed rostellum, it splits, and releases a boat-shaped disk standing vertically on its stern in the passage. Wild Flowers Worth Knowing
- The splitting of the rostellum, curiously enough, never happens without insect aid; but if a bristle or needle be passed over it ever so lightly, a stream of sticky, milky fluid exudes, hardens, and the boat-shaped disk, with pollen masses attached, may be withdrawn on the bristle just as the bee removes them with her tongue. Wild Flowers Worth Knowing
- Within this petaloid perianth is a membranous one, together with a boat-shaped bracteolate body, entire. Journals of Travels in Assam, Burma, Bhootan, Afghanistan and the Neighbouring Countries
- Love had inspired a shaky-looking, boat-shaped construction on the bungalow's flat Plymouth Brethren roof. MR GOLIGHTLY'S HOLIDAY
- The inflorescence is a panicle consisting of groups of dissimilar spikelets with compressed, boat-shaped spathes on peduncles. A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses
- From its boat-shaped towers to its sculptured roofscape, its crazy office windows, its expansive reception hall and its gravity-defying cantilevered front entrance, it is an exercise in eccentricity.
- Common cuts are the baguette, which is long and thin like the French bread; brilliant, a fat cone shape that optimizes reflected light; and the boat-shaped marquise cut. Time for Something Special
- This group is morphologically characterized by boat-shaped extrafloral nectar cups and a long inflorescence axis exhibiting a more racemose arrangement of the flowers.
- I agree 100% with you, except to note that the above explanation is still just an empty phrase — given a boat-shaped rock and a rock-shaped rock (both of equal weight) the boat-shaped rock is more likely to float. Matthew Yglesias » Wonks and Teachers
