Example Sentences

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Tucked under her bed and behind cabinets he found more than 50 pieces—including crocheted top hats and sausage-like sculptures—that she’d created.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 20, 2026

The researchers suspect that it drifted lazily through shallow coastal waters like a mammoth manatee, propelling its sausage-like body with a paddle-shaped tail.

From New York Times • Aug. 2, 2023

The La Salle Microfarm has six long raised beds lined with impermeable pond liner and filled with bundles of compost-enriched soil, stuffed into sausage-like mesh casings known as Garden Soxx.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 21, 2022

Over and over, they stamped AAA ratings on the sausage-like securities made up of poisonous minced mortgages.

From New York Times • Jun. 25, 2010

She was wearing a plain black cotton dress and had short gray hair that was permanented into sausage-like curls that bounced and jiggled on her round head.

From "Homecoming" by Cynthia Voigt