pipe
noun
a hollow cylinder of metal, wood, or other material, used for the conveyance of water, gas, steam, petroleum, etc.
pipelike
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a word derived from
pipe.
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
