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- adjective Like a
cage .
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Examples
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For Hippocrates and Plato the mind was not limited to the brain; it encompassed as well the innards, or splanchna, held in the "cagelike" breast.
Architecture and Memory: The Renaissance Studioli of Federico da Montefeltro 2008
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Mezzo Marie Lenormand was sweetly swaggering as the Fox, who woos and wins the Vixen; baritone Joshua Bloom was pure testosterone as Harašta; and mezzo Melissa Parks was imposing as the Forester's impatient wife and the Owl for which she wore a cagelike garment flecked with feathers.
The Beauty of the Beasts Heidi Waleson 2011
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Well, I'm disposed to favor infill wherever possible but I would pull the license of whichever faux artiste grafted those insane cagelike grates as "ornaments" across the poorly scaled windows.
Latest condo fizzle: 38th and Belmont (Jack Bog's Blog) 2009
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Another wears a cagelike hoop skirt of red, white and blue ribbon.
New York Fashion Week 2011: Showmanship by Michael Kors, Thom Browne, Derek Lam 2011
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The judge therefore ruled that the jury cannot see sworn pre-trial testimony in this case from an Army medic at Bagram who saw Khadr hooded and chained in a cagelike cell with his arms suspended from a metal grate.
Jennifer Turner: The Victims Jennifer Turner 2010
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Some kind of cagelike thing was clamped around my nose and jaw.
To Fetch a Thief Spencer Quinn 2010
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Some kind of cagelike thing was clamped around my nose and jaw.
To Fetch a Thief Spencer Quinn 2010
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As late as 2008, Ms. Bourgeois had been working on a powerful, but lesser-known series of cagelike architectural structures that she called cells.
Trailblazing sculptor Louise Bourgeois, 98, dies; art inspired by traumatic past Michael O'Sullivan 2010
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Some kind of cagelike thing was clamped around my nose and jaw.
To Fetch a Thief Spencer Quinn 2010
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One we wish we saw more often is the removable bag caddy, a cagelike apparatus that allows airflow around the bag as it fills and also eases bag replacement.
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