Definitions
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- adjective Having a shape or
cross-section like that of anhourglass .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective shaped in the form of an hourglass
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Examples
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The mysterious hourglass-shaped artifact shined intensely, its aspect one of movement and energy.
Star Trek: Typhon Pact: Rough Beasts of Empire David R. George III 2011
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The mysterious hourglass-shaped artifact shined intensely, its aspect one of movement and energy.
Star Trek: Typhon Pact: Rough Beasts of Empire David R. George III 2011
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Shunted through the narrow waist of the hourglass-shaped banks, the flow creates a Venturi effect -- a "force-feed buffet," as Bishop puts it -- that propels algae and plankton at the inlet's mouth to the oysters sheltered inside.
The American Oyster Paradise Richard Nalley 2010
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The mysterious hourglass-shaped artifact shined intensely, its aspect one of movement and energy.
Star Trek: Typhon Pact: Rough Beasts of Empire David R. George III 2011
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The mysterious hourglass-shaped artifact shined intensely, its aspect one of movement and energy.
Star Trek: Typhon Pact: Rough Beasts of Empire David R. George III 2011
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The mysterious hourglass-shaped artifact shined intensely, its aspect one of movement and energy.
Star Trek: Typhon Pact: Rough Beasts of Empire David R. George III 2011
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The mysterious hourglass-shaped artifact shined intensely, its aspect one of movement and energy.
Star Trek: Typhon Pact: Rough Beasts of Empire David R. George III 2011
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The Veteran Medical curettes have an hourglass-shaped, ribbed handle [] that is flat on one side.
Archive 2009-04-01 Rebecca Tushnet 2009
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The mysterious hourglass-shaped artifact shined intensely, its aspect one of movement and energy.
Star Trek: Typhon Pact: Rough Beasts of Empire David R. George III 2011
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The mysterious hourglass-shaped artifact shined intensely, its aspect one of movement and energy.
Star Trek: Typhon Pact: Rough Beasts of Empire David R. George III 2011
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