Example Sentences

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Nearby, two colleagues watch as a gray, torpedolike cylinder descends beneath the waves.

From Science Magazine • Nov. 30, 2023

Toshiko Takaezu, a Japanese-American ceramist whose closed pots and torpedolike cylinders, derived from natural forms, helped to elevate ceramics from the production of functional vessels to a fine art, died on March 9 in Honolulu.

From New York Times • Mar. 20, 2011

Within ten seconds it had grown into a 90-ft.-long, torpedolike missile whose fiery tail spewed blue and green smoke.

From Time Magazine Archive

From 2,000 yards away, Test Pilot Keith Butler dived his Meteor fighter at Vicky's torpedolike body and rudimentary, penguinlike wings as if he wanted to shoot her down.

From Time Magazine Archive

He saw the torpedolike wake of an old beaver towing a stick close to the opposite shore.

From Baree, Son of Kazan by Curwood, James Oliver