Tear Shaped

To our amazement, a tear-shaped piece which seemed black in the shade suddenly came to life in the sunlight, revealing bright bands of color deep beneath the surface. ❋ Unknown (2009)

- A silver chain necklace with blue and green tear-shaped beads had a clasp that was 37 percent lead. ❋ Joanna Lin (2010)

Our fingertips just touching the tear-shaped playing piece. ❋ Carol Lynch Williams (2010)

Around her long and delicate throat was an exquisite pendant with a large central ruby from which dangled three tear-shaped pearls. ❋ KATHLEEN MCGOWAN (2010)

The only odd color visible would be the lenses of his Maui Jim prescription shades, tear-shaped, brown, sprayed with lacquer to counteract their tendency to reflect the light. ❋ Stephen Hunter (2009)

An enormous eye stared back at them through the tear-shaped hole. ❋ Loren Long (2009)

They stood silent for a moment, looking through the bare tree limbs to a gargantuan vapor trail glowing orange-red against the dark western sky, terminating at one end in a tear-shaped, iridescent cloud, all of it like some giant, malignant tulip flowering suddenly in the sky upon an implausibly twisted stem. ❋ Maritta Wolff (2009)

The tap was dripping, which momentarily distracted him againeach silvery drop of water seemed to shimmer, tear-shaped and perfect, just before it fell. ❋ Cassandra Clare (2009)

That done, he adjusted his boonie cap, his tear-shaped Wiley X shooting glasses, and began the big walk toward Bob Lee Swagger. ❋ Stephen Hunter (2009)