Definitions
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- adjective relating to or resembling a cone
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Examples
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As the cold war ushered in jutting, cone-shaped bras, the business passed to Peller's cousin, who continued its bespoke service despite the industry's own nuclear threat: the Wonderbra, which rose to prominence, so to speak, in North America in the late 1960s.
From corsets for comedians to bespoke bras: Rigby & Peller has seen it all 2011
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There's a cone-shaped joint the length of a Bic pen filled with Colorado-grown cannabis burning in the ashtray a few inches from my keyboard right now and I'm going to get paid to smoke it and write about it.
Watching grass grow – now that's what I call a job | William Breathes 2011
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Is McDonnel planning to declare in next May a ‘white cone-shaped hood’ day?!
Think Progress » Virginia Gov. McDonnell proclaims April ‘Confederate History Month.’ 2010
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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 Hollye Harrington Jacobs 2011
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Their eyesight became so bad that often they would not realize they had stumbled into a mountain village with its distinctively cone-shaped houses until they were practically on top of it.
Alexander the Great Philip Freeman 2011
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Is McDonnel planning to declare in next May a ‘white cone-shaped hood’ day?!
Think Progress » Virginia Gov. McDonnell proclaims April ‘Confederate History Month.’ 2010
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The cone-shaped entities (now also known as the Great Race of Yith) live in a vast city in what would later become Australia Great Desert.
H. P. Lovecraft "At the Mountains of Madness" and other masterpieces of terror 2009
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Ultimately the Yithians use their ability to escape the destruction of their planet in another galaxy by switching bodies with a race of cone-shaped beings who lived 250 million years ago on Earth.
H. P. Lovecraft "At the Mountains of Madness" and other masterpieces of terror 2009
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Power is transmitted from the engine to wheels using a system of belts and cone-shaped pulleys.
Technology That Makes Left Feet Obsolete Joseph B. White 2011
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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 Hollye Harrington Jacobs 2011
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