Example Sentences

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A photon can act like a bulletlike particle or rippling wave—but not both at once—depending on how experimenters decide to measure it.

From Science Magazine • Oct. 27, 2017

But it was a series of early paintings — large, mostly white canvases with polished-looking, bulletlike shapes in the corners — that began to lead him to his work with light.

From New York Times • Jan. 15, 2012

On “Airplane” he dabbled in some flinty country filigree; on “Diner,” another band staple, he smartly shifted from bulletlike to bleary.

From New York Times • Jul. 25, 2010

Against the windows of Manhattan's Criminal Courts Building the bulletlike drops of the first spring rains beat and splashed with homicidal violence.

From Time Magazine Archive

Ben looked up at it, then he looked at the bulletlike silhouette of Luster’s head in the window and he begun to bob his head again, drooling.

From "The Sound and the Fury" by William Faulkner