Cone Shaped

Their eyesight became so bad that often they would not realize they had stumbled into a mountain village with its distinctively cone-shaped houses until they were practically on top of it. ❋ Philip Freeman (2011)

Is McDonnel planning to declare in next May a ‘white cone-shaped hood’ day?! ❋ Unknown (2010)

Its upright habit and large cone-shaped flowers make it a dramatic addition to the garden. ❋ Unknown (2010)

[The LEEP procedure uses electrical current transmitted through tiny wires in a loop that removes the cone-shaped tissue from the cervix and cauterize the tissue left behind to control bleeding.] ❋ Patricia Yarberry Allen (2010)

As the cold war ushered in jutting, cone-shaped bras, the business passed to Peller's cousin, who continued its bespoke service despite the industry's own nuclear threat: the Wonderbra, which rose to prominence, so to speak, in North America in the late 1960s. ❋ Unknown (2011)

• The Douglas fir is one of the few trees that naturally grow cone-shaped. ❋ Richard Paul Evans (2011)

The cone-shaped entities (now also known as the Great Race of Yith) live in a vast city in what would later become Australia Great Desert. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Dried herbs were what you cooked with back then, and the pretty little cone-shaped rosemary plant was quite a novelty. ❋ Unknown (2011)

Maxwell crooned Michael Jackson's The Lady in My Life, while country duo Sugarland got into the holiday spirit, singing Coming Homebefore a cone-shaped array of lights designed to resemble a Christmas tree. ❋ Unknown (2009)

In direct moxibustion, a small, cone-shaped amount of moxa is placed on top of an acupuncture point and burned. ❋ Hollye Harrington Jacobs (2011)

For that matter, it might never have seen Madonna in her cone-shaped bra or Lady Gaga in her meat dress, says Gregory DelliCarpini Jr., fashion editor of Billboard.com, the online home of the music trade publication. ❋ Charles Passy (2011)

There's a cone-shaped joint the length of a Bic pen filled with Colorado-grown cannabis burning in the ashtray a few inches from my keyboard right now and I'm going to get paid to smoke it and write about it. ❋ Unknown (2011)

Ultimately the Yithians use their ability to escape the destruction of their planet in another galaxy by switching bodies with a race of cone-shaped beings who lived 250 million years ago on Earth. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Power is transmitted from the engine to wheels using a system of belts and cone-shaped pulleys. ❋ Joseph B. White (2011)