Example Sentences

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The NIRSpec has an innovative mask with nearly 250,000 slitlike microshutters, each about the width of a human hair, that operators can open to let light through at specific locations.

From Science Magazine • Nov. 11, 2021

The Clarity FC is a four-door sedan and is the same size as a Honda Accord, but it features more futuristic touches including slitlike headlamps, a sloping roofline and angular taillamps.

From New York Times • May 18, 2017

Harry could tell that Voldemort had not expected Dumbledore to know this name; he saw Voldemort’s eyes flash red again and the slitlike nostrils flare.

From "Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince" by J.K. Rowling

The angular and wrinkled face of Macready, on the other hand,—his slitlike mouth, his close-compressed lips and projecting jaws,—might have made the fortune of a clown.

From The English Stage Being an Account of the Victorian Drama by Filon, Augustin

Wounds of the pinna when produced by undeformed bullets were usually of the same slitlike nature remarked in perforations of the cartilages of the nose, and healed with equal rapidity.

From Surgical Experiences in South Africa, 1899-1900 Being Mainly a Clinical Study of the Nature and Effects of Injuries Produced by Bullets of Small Calibre by Makins, George Henry