hammock-like
- a word derived from hammock.
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 child's cradle, made of a blanket suspended hammock-like between the wall and a beam support, will probably be found.
From The Wild Tribes of Davao District, Mindanao The R. F. Cummings Philippine Expedition by Cole, Fay-Cooper
