After all, why should the earth be shaped like an apple, and not like a pear?
The world must exist, to have the shape of a pear; and that the world is shaped like a pear, and not like an apple, as the fools of Oxford say, I have satisfactorily proved in my book.
Generally the arrows had a tip of iron, shaped like a pyramid, pointed, though for shooting at birds the top was sometimes blunt, so that a bird might be struck down without being badly wounded.
The strings are sounded by a plectrum, or plucker, shaped like an ivory tooth, fastened to the fingers, and drawn backwards and forwards so rapidly that it produces an almost continuous sweet dreamy sound.
On the green leaves, shaped like a sword-blade, swarm two newly-hatched families.
Here, in the heart of a cluster of flowers, the luxurious creature plaits a little pocket of white satin, shaped like a wee thimble.
Her nest, a marvel of gracefulness, is a satin bag, shaped like a tiny pear.
Defn: Shaped like a spindle; tapering at each end; as, a fusiform root; a fusiform cell.
Defn: Shaped like a fern or like the parts of a fern leaf.
A black mark on the throat, and a black band on the bill, which is shaped like a Hen's.
The rose-colored blossoms are two inches long, shaped like a bell or funnel, and appear only on the older cacti.
The flowers are about an inch and a half long and as wide, shaped like a bell, with very lovely cream-white and pale pink petals shading into deep pink at the tips.
They may be curved, or shaped like a crochet-hook, or have the sharp point placed at right angles to the shaft of the instrument.
The incision is made by means of a paracentesis knife, which is shaped like a tiny bistoury set at an angle to its handle (Fig.
Emmett’s hook, shaped like a button-hook, is useful to produce counter-pressure against the needle point.
Resembling a spatha, an instrument for stirring a liquid, shaped like an apothecary’s spatula.
When not in use it rests in a large ivory crotch, shaped like a rowlock, in the bow.
A little peg of walrus ivory, shaped like a flat-headed nail, is driven through the middle of the tip so that the edge of the head just projects into the groove.
The head is but roughly indicated, while the body is shaped like a slug, and is bifid at the pointed end to represent the hind flippers.
It is a long flat piece of bone or antler, shaped like a case knife, with a blade square at heel and point.
Then there was the vapour bath, which you took in a kind of box, with a hole for your head to stick out; a porcelain sitz bath; and a mysterious shower bath into which you secretively retired behind canvas curtains, shaped like a sentry box.
The shell, shaped like a little barrel or thimble, is open in front.
Under this arch are the two eyes, which are relatively enormous, exceedingly convex, shaped like a skull-cap and contiguous to the extent of leaving only a narrow groove for the insertion of the antennæ.
It is a roomy niche, shaped like a flattened ellipsoid, the length of which reaches some eighty to a hundred millimetres.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "shaped like" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
