Example Sentences
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Romy Golan remembers the day in a Paris garden that she gazed upon Jeff Koons’s “Bouquet of Tulips,” a monumental sculpture that depicts a fist grasping 11 stems topped by balloon-like petals.
From New York Times • Dec. 17, 2023
Within this lining, the team embedded several long, balloon-like tubes, which encircled the real heart tissue, in positions that the team determined through computational modeling to be optimal for reproducing the ventricle's contractions.
From Science Daily • Dec. 8, 2023
Heller’s own work bent toward the surreal, as he often worked with unexpected materials such as inflatables, including a balloon-like house for Luna Luna with multicolored porcupine spikes.
From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 1, 2023
In previous hearings, Pentagon officials showed a video taken from an F-18 military plane that showed an image of one balloon-like shape.
From Seattle Times • Jul. 26, 2023
After devouring half the liver, it started tugging on the whitish, balloon-like stomach bag.
From "Life of Pi" by Yann Martel
