Example Sentences

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Once you’ve cooked all the egg mixture, roll the stacked omelets into a log, and slice them crosswise into very thin ribbonlike strands.

From Seattle Times • Feb. 21, 2023

A magnificent field of purple lupines unrolled into a sprawling lavender carpet, which extended to a ribbonlike river that curled around the hotel.

From Washington Post • Jul. 7, 2022

But the ancient ribbonlike tail feathers are fundamentally different, with a shaft that’s more like a half-cylinder, flattened and open on one side.

From Science Magazine • Dec. 14, 2018

As with Moore, too, these passages are almost impossible to quote effectively: they are made of superlong, ribbonlike sentences distributed across white space, often broken against their syntax by an inflexible line.

From The New Yorker • Mar. 21, 2016

Our elbows, which touched the long, ribbonlike leaves, left a slight noise behind us, and I was seized, as I had never been before, by the powerful and singular emotion which marshes cause in me.

From Selected Writings of Guy De Maupassant by Maupassant, Guy de