Example Sentences

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The dust was then mixed and fired into a small, meteorlike sculpture displayed here.

From New York Times • Apr. 16, 2015

If the earth condensed from gases or from meteorlike particles, as many theories have held, it should be smooth and symmetrical with a deep layer of water covering the whole surface.

From Time Magazine Archive

First one alone shot out from the belt of fire that surrounded the square, meteorlike in a wide arch, and fell in the centre of the open space amidst a shower of sparks.

From Greifenstein by Crawford, F. Marion (Francis Marion)