Example Sentences

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All five isolates exhibited a distinctive feature of Minorisa, a single flagellum coiled spirally around the cell.

From Science Daily • Oct. 26, 2023

It’s not the only such example; Alexia says almost nothing throughout the movie, but her demons are as apparent as the spirally surgical scars above her ear.

From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 30, 2021

What about Romanesco's genetics makes it so... spirally?

From Salon • Feb. 10, 2021

I see a barrage of luminescent, spirally shrimp beating against the window.

From Time Magazine Archive

Imagine if Michelle Obama got tired of all the heat and decided to go natural and appeared on TV with lots of woolly hair, or tight spirally curls.

From "Americanah" by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie