Shaped

Examples

• The most efficient form of water motor is the turbine, a strong metal wheel shaped somewhat like a pin wheel, inclosed in a heavy metal case. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
• Well, then, I spoke to her in my well-known merry way, and she said, 'O that what's shaped so venerable should talk like a fool! Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
• Wonder was expressed over the blazing horseshoe that glowed within a pear-shaped globe. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• Then the bowl became ovoid, or egg-shaped, and the end of the handle was rounded, without the notch. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• Why should the brain be enclosed in a box composed of such numerous and such extraordinarily shaped pieces of bone apparently representing vertebrae? Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
• They are for the use of horses, but they are shaped below with a cloven foot of iron, so as to throw pursuers off the track. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
• At last he got away, and shaped his course for Hatfield. Charles Dickens. Oliver Twist.
• When D'Arnot regained consciousness, he found himself lying upon a bed of soft ferns and grasses beneath a little A shaped shelter of boughs. Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.
• He had an abnormally large but well-shaped head, and it is said that the local doctors feared he might have brain trouble. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• Surely the hedges are shaped and measured and their symmetry preserved by the most architectural of gardeners. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• After the juice has been gathered in this way, the native builds a fire; over it he places a cover shaped like a large bottle with the bottom knocked out of it. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• They had come through the heavy timber to the cup-shaped upper end of the little valley and he saw where the camp must be under the rim-rock that rose ahead of them through the trees. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
• Bishop then--jauntily stepping out a little with his well-shaped right leg, as though he said to Mr Merdle 'don't mind the apron; a mere form! Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
• They are generally sunk in valley plains and districts where the formation of the ground is such that that below the surface is bent into basin-shaped curves. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• He held up a soup-tin-shaped bomb, with a tape wrapping around a wire loop. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
• Hanging over the top of the board are several cores on which the resistance wire has been wound, showing the V-shaped heating element. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• Man first discovered by observation or accident that certain stones were melted or softened by fire, and that the product could be hammered and shaped. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• Its head struck with such force that the early hunter decided to give it a sharp point, shaped from a flake of flint, in order that it might drive deep into the body of a deer or bear. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• They cannot be cast in moulds or shaped by law. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• Being shaped internally and externally like an apothecary's mortar, they were called mortars or bombards. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• Bottles can be so shaped that they make the olives, pickles, and peaches that they contain appear larger than they really are. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
• Donkin and Bacon proposed placing the types upon a prism, which was to revolve against an irregularly shaped cylinder, on which the paper was to be placed. Frederick C. Bakewell. Great Facts.
• They _are_ shaped like sharks, Robert Jordan thought, the wide-finned, sharp-nosed sharks of the Gulf Stream. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
• The transverse channel through the breech is tapered, and the sliding breech block X is slightly wedge-shaped to fit tightly therein. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
• I so shaped out my walk as to arrive at the gate at my old time. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
• There were present deputies from all the best provincial choral societies; genuine, barrel-shaped, native Labassecouriens. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
• Collar and shirt bore the grime of a long journey, and the hair bristled unkempt from the well-shaped head. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
• Weapons hung against the walls--long spears, strangely shaped knives, a couple of narrow shields. Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.
• The dark bean-shaped cells are the normal blood corpuscles, and the few speckled cells are those infested with the malarial parasites. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
• I drew them large; I shaped them well: the eyelashes I traced long and sombre; the irids lustrous and large. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.

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