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Case in point: Back in Toronto, my neighbor Willy had a round muddy rock on his bookshelf at home; an unprepossessing half-sphere whose cut side revealed a concave center carpeted with pale lavender crystals.
A New Yorker Is Born David Rakoff 2010
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Even this trivial parameterization of a scaled and twisted half-sphere yields an amazing variety of forms, each of which suggests interesting avenues to explore.
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What could it be, hovering outside a second-story window, shaped like a half-sphere with the flat side down?
THE FORBIDDEN GAME L.J. SMITH 2010
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What could it be, hovering outside a second-story window, shaped like a half-sphere with the flat side down?
THE FORBIDDEN GAME L.J. SMITH 2010
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Of course, those lampshades in half-sphere or full-sphere designs are here to stay in Ikea mainstream, even if they can be a fire hazard in your condo, being made from ornamental Japanese paper.
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Of course, those lampshades in half-sphere or full-sphere designs are here to stay in Ikea mainstream, even if they can be a fire hazard in your condo, being made from ornamental Japanese paper.
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Oh that looks wonderful simmering away in that gorgeous half-sphere pan!
Moogan Ghasshi Meera 2007
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A drum consisting of a skin stretched over a large shell in the shape of a half-sphere.
kettledrum 2002
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The object was roughly three meters on a side, square but mostly open—a hollow half-sphere formed the center.
The Riddled Post Aaron Rosenberg 2001
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Takara toyed with the controls, and the gray globe was instantly replaced by a flattened half-sphere.
Nemesis Thompson, Paul B. 2000
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