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Example sentences for "inverted cone"

  • Defn: A pit in the form of an inverted cone or pyramid, constructed as an obstacle to the approach of an enemy, and having a pointed stake in the middle.

  • Such reasoning falls like an inverted cone, Wanting its proper base to stand upon.

  • The furnaces for roasting the ore in that country are made in the form of cylinders, placed above an inverted cone.

  • Immense quantities of dust and small coal accompanied these blasts, and rose high into the air, in the form of an inverted cone.

  • The interior of the chimney represents an inverted cone.

  • Fleshy, putrescent, pileus at length the shape of an inverted cone.

  • It is shaped like an inverted cone, the apex extending down nearly to the point of junction of the numerous fascicled stems which surround and support its sides.

  • In form it is an inverted cone or pear, measuring 3 inches deep by 3 inches wide at the rim, the thin walls tapering down to a narrow, pointed bottom.

  • The nest of the blue-winged warbler is unique and quite distinctive, often shaped like an inverted cone, usually very narrow and very deep and supported by a firm cup of strong, dead leaves.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
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