Example Sentences

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Hedda wears bullet-like strands of pearls that choke her neck and a jade-colored gown that seems to molder into a festering, jealous shade of green.

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 22, 2025

During lab tests, a gas gun fired a bullet-like projectile at thin pieces of wood, including an early version of the company's product.

From BBC • Jul. 31, 2025

"In mantis shrimp competitors exchange bullet-like hits on each other's armored tail plates, or telsons, during fights over shelters," Green explained.

From Science Daily • May 10, 2024

From slow-cooking gamma-rays and x-rays to the bullet-like tearing of ultra-high-energy particles, borne out of extremes of physics, and ripping through matter like a relativistic slasher.

From Scientific American • Nov. 4, 2018

I had noticed in my walks some small bullet-like holes in the field that had piqued my curiosity, and I determined to keep an eye on these insects of the roadside.

From The Writings of John Burroughs — Volume 05: Pepacton by Burroughs, John