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  • The plants produce cone-like flowers that are picked at the end of summer and dried in an oast—a kiln-heated barn that traditionally had pointed turrets with air vents on top.

    Week in Words Erin McKean 2011

  • I like the pine cone-like roses in the last example.

    Recycled Wrecks 2010

  • I had trouble getting it to wind evenly - it was more cone-like than cylinder-like.

    Best of 2009: Challenge (or: Sewing a Quilt in Heidelberg) C N Heidelberg 2009

  • Set out on a table-top were two of the adobe nests of mason wasps attached to the dried carcass of a lizard, the wings of a pardelote and a frogmouth, something like a nightjar, and a row of the cone-like seeds of casuarinas, which Wolseley had been drawing repeatedly for months.

    Wildwood Roger Deakin 2009

  • Set out on a table-top were two of the adobe nests of mason wasps attached to the dried carcass of a lizard, the wings of a pardelote and a frogmouth, something like a nightjar, and a row of the cone-like seeds of casuarinas, which Wolseley had been drawing repeatedly for months.

    Wildwood Roger Deakin 2009

  • Ya gotta love that one superhero's single Madonna cone-like boob!

    Beauty is Only Skin Deep Jen 2009

  • Chocolate Hills which is 22nd on the current lists of nominees is amazingly formed by nature into a cluster of cone-like hills that one will express awe on how it became such a wonderful hills formation with its pristine beauty and vegetation.

    Two of the Philippines��� Tourist Spots Nominated in the New 7 Wonders of Nature Nomadicasian 2008

  • Bear teeth on the other hand, show a mixture of cone-like and low, flattened teeth similar to those seen in raccoons, badgers, monkeys and, to a lesser extent, humans.

    Archive 2007-05-01 Christopher O'Brien 2007

  • Bear teeth on the other hand, show a mixture of cone-like and low, flattened teeth similar to those seen in raccoons, badgers, monkeys and, to a lesser extent, humans.

    Ham's Creation Museum - What Kids Won't Hear About Teeth Christopher O'Brien 2007

  • Has a tapered cone-like holder for the showerhead handle that makes it fit "90 percent of showerheads."

    Review: SHUC Showerhead Holder for Toddlers | Thingamababy 2007

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