Example Sentences

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Rows of spectator seats shielded from the weather by vaulted, umbrellalike canopies.

From Seattle Times • Mar. 29, 2023

A palm tree sprouted umbrellalike from a pagoda.

From New York Times • Aug. 3, 2012

For this reason, says Van Allen, a spacecraft cannot be sheltered by simply putting an umbrellalike shield between it and the sun.

From Time Magazine Archive

At New York's Idlewild International Airport last week, Pan American World Airways opened the world's most striking terminal�a $12 million glass-and-steel circular structure that is topped off by an immense, umbrellalike, cantilevered roof.

From Time Magazine Archive

Its material was a fuzzy frieze of nondescript colors, a shade of dingy yellow predominating, and its shape was weird and umbrellalike.

From Galusha the Magnificent by Lincoln, Joseph Crosby