Example Sentences

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They wriggled around in the sediments of shallow seas, gulped prey into their minuscule, baglike bodies and expelled the water through cone-shaped spouts around their mouths.

From New York Times • Jan. 30, 2017

In the middle of the field, some 2,500 feet away, stood a gibbety-looking pole, with a baglike object suspended from it.

From Time Magazine Archive

General Electric has proposed a foldable, plastic, baglike device that could be expanded into a small re-entry craft with a retrorocket, heat shield and parachute.

From Time Magazine Archive

The Indian strategy resembled that of Hannibal when he caught the Romans in a baglike trap and decimated them at Cannae.

From Time Magazine Archive

A colony of weaverbirds lived in a tree near his house, and he spent time watching them build and maintain their baglike nests.

From "The Hot Zone" by Richard Preston