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Example sentences for "shaped"

Lexicographically close words:
shanter; shanties; shanty; shantymen; shape; shapeless; shapelessness; shapeliness; shapely; shapen
  1. The little silver heart-shaped badge was passed from one lady to another.

  2. And then both girls felt the little heart-shaped lockets round their necks and thought of themselves as heroines.

  3. Here Susy pulled from the neck of her dress a little heart-shaped locket with the device and name of the society on it.

  4. On the edge of the amphitheatre-shaped meadow, beside the old road that leads to the river, stands the farmhouse.

  5. His head was bullet-shaped and set well down on his shoulders.

  6. Attached to it was a thin brass medal, apparently cut out of a cartridge case, and shaped like the talisman a second wife wears as a safeguard against the machinations of the first.

  7. Once more, Ireland shaped the course of history.

  8. The mythology of the Irish Celts was not originally shaped in Ireland.

  9. The Late Stone Age is distinguished from the Early Stone Age by the use of polished and finely shaped stone implements.

  10. We see the Western Empire now beginning to totter, its ruler's conduct shaped no longer by hope of conquest but by fear of disaster.

  11. In Christian times, their men of letters shaped out genealogical trees tracing the descent of each people from Japhet--and in these genealogies Gael and Briton and Gaul descend by lines as distinct as German and Greek.

  12. But the piece of jewelry which he prizes as the most precious of all, he lost it only yesterday; which it is a solid gold pin shaped like a four-leaf clover with a genuine real Arabian ruby set in the middle of it.

  13. He says: "Pretty soon, I guess--just as soon as I get the scheme sort of shaped up.

  14. It is reading the gospel according to you, and reading it daily, and closely, and faithfully, and remembering what it reads, and being shaped by it.

  15. It's your own home, shaped on your own personality through the years.

  16. He consulted his mirror again, and with a fine camel's-hair brush took up a morsel of rouge from the casket of filigree silver, shaped like a reliquary and crowned by a little cross, at his elbow.

  17. XV On the base of a dolphin-shaped lamp were ranged the curling irons of a barber.

  18. Perhaps it is that the lyre-shaped instrument reminds me of a guitar; and indeed this must be the reason, for in nothing else does the room bear any resemblance to Constance's.

  19. The rough blocks of granite are conveyed by horses, in the same rail-road cars, to smaller quarries below, where they are wrought and shaped for their appointed uses.

  20. She drew a dainty purse from her pocket, and took from its safest corner a plain, flat band of gold, with a small disk on it, shaped like the half of a heart placed horizontally.

  21. A furious Atlantic sea was running; it came along in hills of frothing green which shaped themselves out of a near horizon thick with storms of spume.

  22. She was wearing an indiarubber cap shaped like a sou'-wester, the brim of which came low, while the flannel ear-flaps almost smothered her cheeks.

  23. Few elks in these parts have shovel-shaped antlers nowadays.

  24. It had incredibly large shovel-shaped antlers, like Rauten was said to have.

  25. Hans could see the sky between its legs and also two ears and enormous, shovel-shaped antlers.

  26. The Medusae themselves are heart-shaped in form, depressed at the centre of the upper surface, and bulging on either side into wing-like expansions, where they join the stem.

  27. This is especially the case in many of the Hydroid Medusae, where it assumes a bell-shaped form, and is constantly spoken of as the bell.

  28. View from above of an Actinia with all its tentacles expanded; o mouth, b crescent-shaped folds at extremity of mouth, a a folds round mouth, t t t tentacles.

  29. In the latter, the great amount of fresh water prevents the fauna from being exclusively marine; this harbor is, nevertheless, the great centre of the viviparous fishes, and contains also a large variety of peculiarly shaped Sculpins.

  30. On one side the arms are covered with a tough skin, through which project the ambulacrae, and on the same side of the disk are situated the mouth and the anus; the latter projects in a trumpet-shaped proboscis.

  31. After a day or two the outline of these planulae, spherical at first, becomes pear-shaped (see Fig.

  32. They are club-shaped at their extremities, but are hollow throughout, opening into the chambers of the digestive cavity, two of the clusters thus being connected with each chamber.

  33. When first hatched, like the Oceania, it is very convex, almost thimble-shaped (see Fig.

  34. The mouth of the Astrangia is oval, and the partitions spread in a fan-shaped way, being somewhat shorter at one side of the animal than on the other.

  35. His broad forehead, large well-shaped nose, firm chin and clear calm eye evidenced his common sense, his conscientiousness and his uncompromising adherence to principle.

  36. His well-shaped and brilliant dark eyes, shadowed by long silken lashes, have the soft quiet light of an antelope's.

  37. From the master of Cluny he borrowed the feminine type with a snub nose and long almond-shaped eyes, treated the hair like da Vinci, and placed over it the sfumato of Allegri.

  38. The round, curiously shaped head and prominent cheek-bones denote stubbornness, and the flexible nostrils passion.

  39. They were long, shaped somewhat like torpedoes and gleamed wet in the moonlight.

  40. Can they be some type of torpedo-shaped boat controlled by radio?

  41. The women were well-shaped before they began to have children; both sexes slovenly and dirty in the extreme.

  42. This consists of four plain Arabic pillars supporting a series of mouldings which form a square cornice, and crowned with a dome, pear-shaped ornament, and cross, precisely as in the cupolas of the church itself.

  43. From all the domes alike there spring inverted pear-shaped stones, each bearing a cross which consists of an upright rod traversed horizontally by three smaller ones; the crosses bear balls and chains, and symbolise the Trinity.

  44. In his hand he took a stout fighting-shield, which he had made of buffalo hide, and that same light moon-shaped axe with which he had slain the captain of Chaka.

  45. It is haunted also, and named the Ghost Mountain, and on the top of it is a grey peak rudely shaped like the head of an aged woman.

  46. Again Umslopogaas smote: the moon-shaped axe sank through the stout shield deep into the breast beyond.

  47. But from time to time between the tops of the trees I saw the figure of the grey stone woman who sits on the top of Ghost Mountain, and shaped my course towards her knees.

  48. Above the upper arches are three irregular-shaped openings, arranged pyramidally, the two lower being quatrefoiled, the upper sexfoiled.

  49. But where it is used to fill up an irregularly-shaped mass of wall which there is no need to decorate, it looks incoherent and confused.

  50. Having the size and height of their arch settled before they designed their roof, the roof would of necessity be shaped to fit the arch, and this would be the most convenient roof for the purpose under the circumstances.

  51. The vault was probably intended to be stone, but the great width of the building seems to have made the builders afraid, and they erected a vault of wood, but shaped and ribbed to look like stone.

  52. The windows of the aisle are delicately moulded with capitals to their shafts, and are ornamented with a crocketed gable, ogee-shaped and topped with a prominent finial rising just above the battlements of the aisle.

  53. Off came the wrappers, and there was a shout of joy as three heart-shaped boxes of candy appeared.

  54. Something in the queer shaped little stone building caught her attention.


  55. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "shaped" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    arranged; assembled; built; calculated; cast; custom; designed; fabricated; figured; forged; gathered; grown; handmade; homemade; homespun; made; manufactured; methodized; milled; mined; molded; organized; planned; plotted; prefabricated; processed; projected; raised; refined; scheduled; shaped; strategic; systematized; tactical


    Some related collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    shaped base; shaped blossoms; shaped body; shaped corolla; shaped flowers; shaped form; shaped fruit; shaped head; shaped leaves; shaped like; shaped mark; shaped nest; shaped nests; shaped piece; shaped pieces; shaped shield; shaped spots; shaped structure; shaped tube; shaped vessel