cage
noun
a boxlike enclosure having wires, bars, or the like, for confining and displaying birds or animals.
cagelike
-
a word derived from
cage.
Example Sentences
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At the high end, Design Within Reach offers a solar-powered teak light called the Ambient Ray Lantern that sends a glow through its cagelike structure and is $2,215.
From Seattle Times ● Apr. 11, 2024
The first class includes repeating cagelike structures made from hydrogen atoms, with each cage enclosing an electron-rich metal atom, such as lanthanum or yttrium.
From Science Magazine ● Aug. 26, 2021
Amid stories of parents searching in vain for their children, audio of wailing toddlers and images of detained teenagers behind chain-link, cagelike fences, there is intense pressure for Washington to act.
From New York Times ● Jun. 26, 2018
A cagelike structure of solidified water traps methane within it.
From Scientific American ● Aug. 1, 2017
There was a succession of terrace roofs close by, and on one of these a photographer had perched a big cagelike construction of blue glass.
From Four Short Stories By Emile Zola by Émile Zola
