Example Sentences

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The problem now was to move a ship a fifth of a mile long and 118 ft. wide down 14 miles of goosenecked channel only 300 feet broad.

From Time Magazine Archive

Then, after three strokes on a bronze gong, a Chinese woman in a richly brocaded gown began speaking Mandarin into a goosenecked microphone.

From Time Magazine Archive

The goosenecked floor lamp with its half-moon glass bowl.

From "One Crazy Summer" by Rita Williams-Garcia

A goosenecked floor lamp with a glass bowl in the shape of a half-moon.

From "One Crazy Summer" by Rita Williams-Garcia

I turned off the goosenecked floor lamp and sat in the hallway, where light beamed from the living room.

From "One Crazy Summer" by Rita Williams-Garcia