Cuplike

She wears no shoes and sits curled up on her legs, like a cat, in a cuplike leather chair. ❋ DAVID RABE (2010)

After a short while, the sound of the little brook was joined by the louder sound of falling water, and through a gap in the trees ahead, Kellen could see what must be their destination for the night: a wide crack in the canyon wall where a tiny waterfall spilled down from above to fill a cuplike catch-basin before spilling away into the narrow stream. ❋ Michael J. Solender (2010)

There, raised an inch above the tissues lining the bottom, resting on a pedestal fashioned from the cardboard core of a toilet paper roll, is a cuplike nest the diameter of a quarter. ❋ Sy Montgomery (2010)

Finally a gorge opened into a cuplike valley to and from which there was only this one entrance and exit, marked in pines and rubbly slopes. ❋ Bill Crider (2007)

The mechanics of this can be understood by thinking of a digital camera sensor as a flat sheet of material pocked with millions hence “mega” of cylindrical, cuplike pixels. ❋ Unknown (2008)

At the top of each crèche was an arm apparatus, with a cuplike attachment at the end. ❋ Unknown (2005)

Thus the phone company effectively fought off the competitive challenge posed by the Hush-a-Phone, a sort of small cuplike attachment put around the mouthpiece to increase the privacy of the speaker. ❋ DANIEL YERGIN (1998)

Tubes running from large backpacks ended in cuplike cones. ❋ Foster, Alan Dean, 1946- (1997)

But instead of pouring juice from the Thermos into its cuplike top, instead of lifting that cuplike top to her mouth, he gripped her neck harder and tipped her head backwards and brought the Thermos up to her mouth. ❋ George, Elizabeth (1996)

On the stones he used for cooling after the quench lay a circular cuplike device with a blunt-very blunt-hook and two bows-most of a morning's work. ❋ Modesitt, L. E. (1996)

Its branches formed a big cuplike center covered by broad mottled leaves. ❋ Anthony, Piers (1992)

One of them leaned toward them, showing a deep cuplike center. ❋ Anthony, Piers (1992)

Look for nests—in cuplike depressions on the forest floor, within 50 feet of an edge. ❋ Janine M. Benyus (1989)