star-shaped
AmericanEtymology
Origin of star-shaped
First recorded in 1805–15
Example Sentences
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In addition to Yoshi, theaters are selling $45 star-shaped Luma buckets, which light up and come in several colors.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 6, 2026
They include Lumas - glowing star-shaped characters that players encounter throughout the game.
From BBC • Apr. 1, 2026
At Socrates, examples include “A Sea In-MOTION,” a star-shaped assemblage of bamboo fences by the Pioneers Go East Collective; and Natalia Nakazawa’s part-buckyball, part-yurt “Dome Cartographies.”
From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 17, 2025
Think of the toddler's classic hammer-and-bench toy, with square, circular, triangular and star-shaped wooden pegs that can each only fit in the correspondingly shaped hole in the bench.
From Science Daily • Nov. 14, 2024
He brushed by a gaunt, cadaverous, trustful man in a black raincoat with a star-shaped scar in his cheek and a glossy mutilated depression the size of an egg in one temple.
From "Catch-22" by Joseph Heller
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