Example Sentences

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In these final moments, his partially shed exoskeleton blocked his book lungs—delicate, platelike structures that allowed air to enter his body passively.

From Scientific American • Sep. 29, 2023

One 2019 study suggests that the first organisms to develop neurons were small, flat, platelike creatures called dickinsoniids, which snacked on microbes during the Ediacaran period, between 635 million and 542 million years ago.

From Scientific American • Jun. 16, 2023

In another of her arrangements, a mass of tissue-petaled ivory peonies is disrupted by an alabaster anthurium, its spadix jutting up from the flower’s platelike surface.

From New York Times • Mar. 4, 2020

Tens of square kilometers had nearly complete cover by platelike stony corals growing horizontally, presumably to maximize their exposure to light.

From Science Magazine • Mar. 2, 2017

In the teeth of the true elephants the crown has become deep, and the ridges of enamel have changed to numerous upright, platelike folds, their interspaces filled with cement.

From The Elements of Geology by Norton, William Harmon