womb
noun
the uterus of the human female and certain higher mammals.
womblike
-
a word derived from
womb.
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
And Paula Hayes has reinvented the 19th-century terrarium, giving her designs a womblike shape and a side opening.
From New York Times ● Apr. 27, 2022
“That’s a Chinese checkerboard from my boyhood,” Zientara says as we move around the womblike control room, its normally dim lights turned up for a change.
From Washington Post ● Sep. 20, 2021
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 H. R. van Dongen
