Example Sentences

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This takes an evening to unfurl, starting off nutty and pearlike, becoming more detailed with air, a dusty mineral savor coming through.

From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 1, 2016

But closer inspection of the rounded, pearlike leaves in a cluster from the running root, and the concave, not bell-shaped, white, waxen blossoms, with the pistil protruding and curved, indicate the commonest of the pyrolas.

From Wild Flowers An Aid to Knowledge of Our Wild Flowers and Their Insect Visitors by Blanchan, Neltje

The cocher, a torpid, purplish lump of gross flesh, pyramidal, pearlike, sat immobile in his place.

From Jason by Forman, Justus Miles