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

I tucked her in my sweater and leaned against the cliff, facing the bulletlike dive of the falcon.

From "My Side of the Mountain" by Jean Craighead George