Example Sentences

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Many of the fossils were the hollow shells of large deep-sea worms that anchor themselves to the seafloor with pipelike tubes.

From Scientific American • Feb. 8, 2022

It’s a bunch of drums punching themselves silly, then five notes of metallic, pipelike noise, joined by a strange, constant click.

From New York Times • Aug. 8, 2016

A leaf of an angiosperm produces a sugary sap that flows into a network of pipelike cells called the phloem, which transports the sap down the tree's trunk and through the roots.

From Science Magazine • Jan. 4, 2013

Mr. Schoenherr did so evocatively, rendering Mr. Herbert’s sand creature as a rearing, pipelike organism whose jagged, gaping maw revealed a terrible blackness within.

From New York Times • Apr. 15, 2010

He was a scrawny man, toothy, with a pipelike neck and a monstrous Adam’s apple.

From "The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War" by Michael Shaara