How To Use Boat-shaped In A Sentence
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Behind them rumbled an impressive line of Russian BTR-60 PK armoured personnel-carriers, huge, boat-shaped amphibious ones.
KARA KUSH
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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
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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lightly, a stream of sticky, milky fluid exudes, hardens, and the boat-shaped disk, with pollen masses attached, may be withdrawn on the bristle just as the bee removes them with her tongue.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
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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
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Love had inspired a shaky-looking, boat-shaped construction on the bungalow's flat Plymouth Brethren roof.
MR GOLIGHTLY'S HOLIDAY
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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
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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.
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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
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This group is morphologically characterized by boat-shaped extrafloral nectar cups and a long inflorescence axis exhibiting a more racemose arrangement of the flowers.
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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
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This boat-shaped hat expresses tribal ingenuity.
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This group is morphologically characterized by boat-shaped extrafloral nectar cups and a long inflorescence axis exhibiting a more racemose arrangement of the flowers.
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This group is morphologically characterized by boat-shaped extrafloral nectar cups and a long inflorescence axis exhibiting a more racemose arrangement of the flowers.
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Chancery Lane (+44 (0)1308 426876, thestabledorset.co.uk)On a seafront esplanade below West Weares cliff, this curious boat-shaped cafe was custom-built to replace a run-down public toilet (there are still ladies and gents at either end) but don't let that put you off – the view of Chesil beach from Quiddles' rooftop sun terrace is one of the best on the Jurassic coast.
West Dorset's top 10 budget eats
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The _glume_ is about 1/6 inch long, ovate-oblong, somewhat boat-shaped, acute and shortly mucronate, strongly keeled, ciliate on the keel and margins, 5-nerved, the lateral nerves forming a thickened margin;
A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses
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Specifically, white boat-shaped 'Gandhi caps' are flying off the shelves.
Sarika Bansal: Where Anna Hazare's Anti-Corruption Movement Should End
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Even while rising, a young upfold is often thus unroofed, and instead of appearing as a long, Smooth, boat-shaped ridge, it commonly has had opened along the rocks of the axis, when these are weak, a valley which is overlooked by the infacing escarpments of the hard layers of the sides of the fold.
The Elements of Geology
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Our luggage was borne by staff smartly garbed in period dress and elaborate boat-shaped headgear.
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The boat-shaped, pitalike loaves of samun were so hot they melted the flimsy plastic of the striped, lavender-and-white bags into which the baker was furiously stuffing the bread, ignoring my attempts at small talk about the wonderful fragrance of his freshly baked dough.
Peace Meals
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The boat-shaped flatbreads (pides) are sometimes good, sometimes not.
Tom Sietsema on Agora: A restaurateur turns to Turkey for revamp
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Also, the vomer itself tends to be boat-shaped in Salvelinus, but not in Oncorhynchus or Salmo.
Trout and Salmon of North America
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What had once been a dark speck was now a boat-shaped shadow skipping along in front of them.
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