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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

  • 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.

    Wolfram Blog : Twisted Architecture 2009

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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.

    Why Canadians Shop at Ikea 2009

  • 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.

    Why Canadians Shop at Ikea 2009

  • Oh that looks wonderful simmering away in that gorgeous half-sphere pan!

    Moogan Ghasshi Meera 2007

  • A drum consisting of a skin stretched over a large shell in the shape of a half-sphere.

    kettledrum 2002

  • 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

  • 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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