Example Sentences

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On Saturday, I climbed the many steps to the sphere’s entrance and reclined, like everyone else, in a comfortable hammock-like seat, listening to the seductively sullen 2009 debut album by the British band the xx.

From New York Times • Jul. 2, 2023

Saul’s therapy includes sleeping in a hammock-like womb programmed to anticipate his pain; he eats in a contraption resembling a robotic exoskeleton.

From Washington Post • Jun. 1, 2022

Our ancestors’ tail muscles evolved into a hammock-like mesh across the pelvis.

From New York Times • Sep. 21, 2021

Yoo overlaps cutout houses and trees, draping her prints vertically or in hammock-like swoops that yield shadows more complex than the cookie-cutter homes themselves.

From Washington Post • May 2, 2019

A golden mile of sand swings hammock-like between two tusks of rock.

From Ballads of a Bohemian by Service, Robert W. (Robert William)