How To Use Cone-shaped In A Sentence
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Round huts called mundals are made from poles and brush or vines plastered with mud, animal dung, and ashes and covered with a broad, cone-shaped thatched roof.
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The cone-shaped device looks like a trumpet mute.
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The inner surface at one end of metal insert is cone-shaped sealing surface.
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At one time, the nomadic Kazaks lived in yurts, cone-shaped tents of white felt stretched over a framework of wooden poles.
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The spiritual heart of a Vegas Christmas is the perfectly cone-shaped, 60-foot synthetic tree in front of Caesars Palace, bedizened with 216,510 lights.
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These volcano and feeder systems have similarities to igneous centres, which also have cone-shaped edifices, calderas and downward tapering cones created during magma chamber collapse and ring-dyke intrusion.
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Sometimes there was a wry little aside to leaven the mix, such as a comment about the unflattering effect of the fashionable ultra-short men’s coat on a middle-aged courtier of ample girth, or the tendency of a two-foot steeple hennin those tall cone-shaped head-dresses worn by great ladies at the time to poke people in the eye.
Daughter of York, by Anne Easter Smith. Book review.
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The accumulated geyserite constituted small, cone-shaped hills here and there, which are called geyser cones today.
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The beautiful purple petals that radiate from its dark cone-shaped centre somewhat resemble the commonly grown black-eyed Susan.
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One cone-shaped hill is topped with a rock pile like a nipple, a metaphor of nurture.
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Before us stretched a two-acre walled garden laid out in the geometric style of a baroque pleasance — with cone-shaped topiary, boxwood hedges, beds in tidy rows, and a shimmering lily pond.
The Constant Gardener
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With this object, the caddis worm cuts its moorings, that is to say, the rootlets which keep the cylinder fixed, or else the half-severed leaf of pond weed on which the cone-shaped bag has come into being.
The Life of the fly; with which are interspersed some chapters of autobiography
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The prominent feature in the landscape near Tehran is the grand cone-shaped Mount Demavend, about forty miles to the north-east, which shoots up 19,400 feet above ocean-level, and overtops all the surrounding heights by 6,000 feet or more.
Persia Revisited
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Either side of the gates was a tall lookout tower, the same colour as the walls and with a golden, cone-shaped roof.
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In direct moxibustion, a small, cone-shaped amount of moxa is placed on top of an acupuncture point and burned.
Hollye Harrington Jacobs: Exploring the World of Alternative Breast Cancer Treatments
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HIV uses this protein package, a cone-shaped container called a "capsid," to transport its genetic material into the host cell, after binding with receptors on the cell's surface.
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Its compact, 20 cm body and cone-shaped head reduce resistance and it is powered by its webbed feet.
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The transmitter attaches to your camera, A snoot is a cone-shaped device that looks like an inverted funnel.
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This is a hard narrow cone-shaped tool resembling a thread tap, except it has rough reverse threads on it.
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While the teeth of modern crocodiles tend to be cone-shaped and pointed at the end to seize and tear prey, the ancient crocodile had a variety, including primitive canines, premolars and molars.
Fossil of 'cat-like' crocodile found in Tanzania
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The blade was set into a rounded cone-shaped hilt piece, from which sprang a finely-crafted crosspiece carved into the shape of silver angel wings.
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The sides of the bowl are defined with pleached linden trees and parterres of golden privet, santolina, althernanthera, Korean boxwood and red-leaf Japanese barberry with begonias, lantanas, fucshia and cone-shaped yew topiary.
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The auditorium continued to buzz with bored voices and only quieted when he'd tapped on the cone-shaped contraption in front of him.
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Or imagine sitting atop a perfectly cone-shaped mountain, and suppose the mountain is the only topographical feature in the world.
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Ataturk also outlawed the traditional fez, a brimless, cone-shaped, red hat and made brimmed felt hats mandatory, because with them on men could not touch their foreheads to the ground in prayer.
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Cone-shaped tongue papillae, seen here in a colored scanning electron micrograph, contain nerve endings that receive and transmit touch sensations to the brain.
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He also outlawed the traditional fez, a brimless, cone-shaped, red hat.
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At one time, the nomadic Kazaks lived in yurts, cone-shaped tents of white felt stretched over a framework of wooden poles.
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The flowers, as before hinted, are thistle-shaped; the pericline or knob just under the florets is cone-shaped, covered with evenly set and pointed scales, green, edged with a brown margin, set round with short bristle-like teeth.
Hardy Perennials and Old Fashioned Flowers Describing the Most Desirable Plants, for Borders, Rockeries, and Shrubberies.
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Each flower has a prominent dark cone-shaped centre and long, gently reflexed petals.
Times, Sunday Times
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Temaki is similar to maki but is cone-shaped, uncut and eaten by hand.
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A piece of shell was broken from its ventral margin, probably by a biting predator with cone-shaped sharp teeth or denticles, because an arcuate row of small conical dimples is present on the shell just above the part that was removed.
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Just 20 minutes from the airport, we are perched on top of a cone-shaped hill overlooking Kranj.
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Alert for mines, they tested the runway with a soil penetrometer, a long rod with a cone-shaped end and a sliding weight.
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Based on the design of the traditional horn theory, the cone-shaped horn of the transitional ladder was studied.
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The drogues, big cone-shaped canvas contraptions like oversized windsocks, made effective sea anchors.
LET NOT THE DEEP
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His cone-shaped body and neckless head terrified the other children at the orphanage, and at the tender age of 10, the Conical Cowboy set out into the world to make his fortune.
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A small, somewhat flattened, cone-shaped structure, suspended by a stalk in the epithalamus, that secretes the hormone melatonin.
Alcohol and The Addictive Brain
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The Chinese paddlefish (Psephurus gladius) is found in the Yangtze River and has a cone-shaped snout rather than the long, paddle-like snout (known as a rostrum) of the North American paddlefish.
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