Example Sentences

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To plant seedlings with bushier roots, the company acquired a machine that pumps out cigarlike tubes of soil wrapped in brown paper and produces far more seedlings a week than a human could manage.

From New York Times • Apr. 4, 2024

Perseverance collects most of its samples using a small drill, producing chalk-stick-sized specimens that each fit within cigarlike tubes measuring less than 15 centimeters long.

From Scientific American • Apr. 5, 2023

Ultimately Perseverance will place dozens of samples in small cigarlike tubes, caching them on the surface to await future collection.

From Scientific American • Mar. 4, 2022

We saw it soon as a cylindrical, cigarlike shape, rather smaller than the Planetara, but similar of design.

From Brigands of the Moon by Cummings, Ray

He ate two of the three greasy, cigarlike shapes cordially pressed upon him in return.

From Penrod by Tarkington, Booth