Needle Shaped

The machine's elegant, needle-shaped silhouette – 32 feet long, 42 inches high and 48 inches wide – somehow managed to contain four Chrysler V8s, each almost as powerful as a contemporary Formula One engine, and it was Bob who drove the car across the Bonneville salt flats to a record that stood for 26 years. ❋ Unknown (2011)

Soaring above the city like a giant needle-shaped spacecraft, it really is a wonder of modern technology and design. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Like a Las Vegas needle-shaped fountain, every bit that goes up comes down. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Short, needle-shaped seeds, these were toasted up in a heavy-bottomed skillet before getting crushed in a spice grinder aka small coffee grinder to a powder. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Without it, the defective hemoglobin collapses into needle-shaped clumps, which then turn the cell itself into a sickle shape. ❋ Carl Zimmer (2009)

The needle-shaped test sample — rubber, say, or perhaps steel -- is placed in a mount which is held in place by deflection arms. ❋ Edward Willett (2006)

The needle-shaped sample is brought into contact with the ice, the motor is turned on, and the sample rubs against the ice. ❋ Edward Willett (2006)

Primarily artifacts of the 1950s, rocketship movies inevitably featured square-jawed American heroes, evil villains (who were more than likely Godless Commies) and sleek, cigar-shaped craft fitted out with graceful, backswept fins and needle-shaped antennae at the nose. ❋ Unknown (2004)

Dorrin turns from his study of the needle-shaped Black Hammer. ❋ Modesitt, L. E. (1994)

Most cultivars, particularly the dasheens, contain oxalic acid (0. 1-0.4 per cent fresh weight) mainly in the form of 'raphides', ie bunches of needle-shaped crystals of calcium oxalate embedded in the tissues. ❋ Unknown (1987)

Mullite grows into long needle-shaped crystals which form a lattice that will reinforce the fired clay in much the same way as iron bars in reinforced concrete. ❋ Unknown (1987)

He had stopped the searchlight and illuminated a lonely, needle-shaped rock which jutted high out of the terrain. ❋ Mahr, Kurt (1976)

The pellets of the shotgun-like charge that blasted out from the gun were small, needle-shaped, and massive. ❋ Randall Garrett (1957)

_ -- Mix a drop of the spermatic stain with a drop of a saturated solution of picric acid, when needle-shaped yellow rhombic crystals are formed. ❋ Unknown (N/A)