Example Sentences

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Bears Ears is named for two adjacent buttes that rise over the landscape in an earlike fashion.

From New York Times • Jun. 20, 2022

Spector’s team has also invented a way to print ears from 3-D photos, using a protein-based gel that hardens into an earlike structure.

From US News • Sep. 2, 2014

Because he, or she, or they understood that the underlying concept runs much deeper than the mere notion of an earlike protuberance on the side of a cylinder.

From New York Times • Dec. 25, 2010

In Cloud No. 2, for instance, a yellow, earlike shape embraces but does not parallel the straight ridge of white, thus throwing into shadows and visual doubts where a shape ends or bends.

From Time Magazine Archive

One handful went wide, spattering on the grass, but the other caught the creature in the eye, midair, and on the left earlike flame.

From "Impossible Creatures" by Katherine Rundell