Example Sentences

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Then the domelike lid goes on top and the vessel moves to the oven to braise.

From Washington Post • Apr. 26, 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