Example Sentences

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Despite standing just two feet tall, an adult bird is armed with pistonlike legs and razor-sharp claws.

From New York Times • May 17, 2024

The bridge’s single tower has two legs, designed to move independently in a quake, and a pistonlike structure that prevents sections of bridge deck from crashing into each other, Mahan explained.

From Seattle Times • Mar. 9, 2017

And for the past 20 years, Firestone's National Advertising Manager A. J. McGinness has commuted almost every week between Akron and Manhattan studios to see that everything, including divas' temperaments, functions with pistonlike smoothness.

From Time Magazine Archive

Maxim followed with a pistonlike left and a short right to the head; Mills went down and sank back on his haunches like a bemused Buddha, wiping his nose as the referee counted him out.

From Time Magazine Archive

Their blows against the thing's pistonlike legs failed to even shake it.

From The Cavern of the Shining Ones by Wells, Hal K.