Example Sentences

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The petals are thin and crinkled, like silk, and soon fall away to reveal a buttonlike seedpod that a month or so later will contain hundreds of tiny ripe seeds, each smaller than a pinhead.

From Washington Post • Nov. 11, 2018

A buttonlike scar marked one side of Uncle Katsuhisa’s nose.

From "Kira-Kira" by Cynthia Kadohata

All this time the incognizable nouveau was smoking slowly and calmly, and looking at nothing at all with his black buttonlike eyes.

From The Enormous Room by Cummings, E. E. (Edward Estlin)