Example Sentences

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“It’s gotta be warm and almost womblike in a way that you feel very appeased as soon as you walk in, and then you bring your guard down,” says Bole, a native of France.

From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 19, 2025

And Jerskin Fendrix’s unruly, dissonant score, working in context with Johnnie Burn’s womblike soundscape, plays like something piped in directly from Bella’s transplanted psyche.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 7, 2023

What is clear is that Theodore Roethke was captivated by the daily epiphany of watching life grow in the womblike environment of a greenhouse.

From Seattle Times • Jan. 24, 2021

To heighten the drama, the sense of childlike wonder, of this extravaganza, visitors had been supplied with flashlights so they could see the works in the gallery’s womblike darkness.

From Washington Post • Jun. 7, 2018

He was alive only because he was in a womblike creche pod that had taken over most of his vital functions.

From Operation Haystack by Dongen, H. R. van