Example Sentences

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Cosmic cartographer Brent Tully was inspecting his team’s latest high-precision maps of the positions and motions of 56,000 galaxies in the local universe when he noticed a colossal ringlike structure.

From Scientific American • Sep. 27, 2023

Past studies have shown dolphins are vulnerable to infections of poxvirus, which causes ringlike lesions on the skin, and fungal diseases such as lobomycosis, which causes cystlike nodules.

From Science Magazine • May 19, 2022

The electron microscope revealed a ringlike shape characteristic of a paramyxovirus — a family that includes measles, mumps and respiratory illnesses, but not Japanese encephalitis.

From Washington Post • Oct. 14, 2021

The yellow eyes glow, their intensity magnified by concentric ringlike markings that spread outward, like a feathery vortex.

From New York Times • Mar. 5, 2015

Others again have stoutly maintained that its ringlike form bore mysterious reference to the Round Table.

From Windsor Castle by Ainsworth, William Harrison