dome
domelike
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a word derived from
dome.
Example Sentences
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McConnell’s ironic edifices are often compared to Buddhist stupas, partly for their domelike shapes but also because they incorporate religious icons.
From Washington Post ● Sep. 29, 2022
“Often, different mammals have different types of horns, and that helps define the different species. Same with oviraptorosaurs. Tongtianlong had a domelike crest—a fairly simple, convex, helmet type of crest.”
From National Geographic ● Nov. 10, 2016
The layered, domelike structures are mats of sediment trapped in shallow waters by large numbers of blue-green bacteria that can photosynthesize.
From Textbooks ● Oct. 13, 2016
The shortcrust pastry of the bottom part forms a lip where it meets the upper half, which rises domelike from the cereal-bowl-shaped base, and looks as though it were composed of volcanic ash.
From The New Yorker ● Apr. 4, 2016
We found Brer sitting in the middle of the floor in a domelike room.
From "Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky" by Kwame Mbalia
