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  • In an added irony, Cohen found that his rod-like physique made him a difficult target for enemy gunmen.

    Emmett Rensin: Hipster Joins Marines, Wins Purple Heart In Ultimate Act Of Irony 2009

  • The Z-ring pinches the rod-like body into two microbial sausages that finally split apart.

    ‘Z-ring’ Helps Bacteria Cells Divide | Impact Lab 2007

  • As well as immobilizing prey, poisonous rhabdoids, rod-like structures produced in the epidermis, on the front external surface also help deter potential predators.

    Platyhelminthes 2007

  • I immediately thought of pangolins on reading the news about the Tube-lipped nectar bat Anoura fistulata: the pangolin tongue 'roots' on the xiphisternum, a rod-like cartilaginous extension of the breastbone located on the ventral surface of the abdomen.

    Andean Bats 2006

  • Ten years ago, scientists from NASA said they had found small rod-like structures in the meteorite that were believed to be fossil bacteria.

    Archive 2006-08-01 Mac 2006

  • Threading its way out from among his grey hairs, and continuing right down one side of his tawny scorched face and neck, till it disappeared in his clothing, you saw a slender rod-like mark, lividly whitish.

    Moby Dick; or the Whale 2002

  • When they looked at the results of the spinal tap, they found in the fluid what are rod-like structures with spores.

    CNN Transcript Oct 5, 2001 2001

  • When they looked at the results of the spinal tap, they found in the fluid what are rod-like structures with spores.

    CNN Transcript Oct 5, 2001 2001

  • There was a hump on the front of her skrode, and a rod-like projection.

    A Fire Upon the Deep Vinge, Vernor 1992

  • The scaffolding consisted of two heavy rod-like sections diametrically opposite each other around the circle of the rim of the end-wall of each ship.

    The Far Call Dickson, Gordon R 1978

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