Example Sentences

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Illumination’s film aims to capture the radiant Mushroom Kingdom, a place where pretty much anything can happen and even torpedo-like projectiles have anthropomorphic qualities.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 5, 2023

During a recent war in May, Israel says it thwarted an attempt by Hamas to launch a torpedo-like underwater drone at Israeli targets.

From Seattle Times • Sep. 15, 2021

Most data is from 3,800 free-drifting Argo floats dispersed across the oceans, but some comes from torpedo-like bathythermographs dropped from ships in the past.

From The Guardian • Jan. 13, 2021

Without this metal underbrush, the roadsters’s fuselage is even tapered and torpedo-like.

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 5, 2018

The Hunley was originally designed to attack a ship using a torpedo-like explosive floating device that was towed at the end of a long rope.

From "Shipwrecked!" by Martin W. Sandler