Example Sentences

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In one memorable photo, Trump’s ankles appear downright sausagelike, impressively achieving a diameter that can, I think, realistically rival Hulk Hogan’s biceps.

From Slate • Jul. 18, 2025

The marinara is lively on its own and an agreeable partner for the meatballs, which are of the fine-ground, spicy, sausagelike school.

From New York Times • Jan. 23, 2018

In one of the barns, an assistant is working on a sculpture made of sausagelike elements, while just outside stands one of Wurm’s large gherkin sculptures.

From New York Times • Mar. 6, 2014

He was also known for large, irreverent sculptures, like those shown in Manhattan in 2004 whose cartoonish, sausagelike shapes and patchwork surfaces, made of lacquered aluminum, parodied the usual decorum of abstract public art.

From New York Times • Jul. 27, 2012

A caulobacter, say Drs. Nemec and Bystricky, is a sausagelike object with a long stalk protruding from one end.

From Time Magazine Archive