Wedgelike

The peculiar V-shaped mouth with its pointed upper lip, the absence of brow ridges, the absence of a chin beneath the wedgelike lower lip, the incessant quivering of this mouth, the Gorgon groups of tentacles. ❋ Unknown (2011)

The walls of the chasm angled down on either side to form a wedgelike base. ❋ Unknown (2010)

The chairs, for instance, are known by nicknames as whimsical as the dance crazes from the same era: Nelson's wedgelike "" coconut, '' Jacobsen's ovoid "" egg, '' Saarinen's enveloping "" womb. '' ❋ Unknown (2008)

Trailed by a pair of Starfleet security guards, Vumelko marched directly up to the nose of the Rocinante and slapped his palm on the side of the wedgelike forward fuselage. ❋ DAVID MACK (2005)

He owned but one rusty black suit of clothes and a pair of old overlarge dress boots that curled up at the toes and were so worn down that the heels were wedgelike. ❋ Frazier, Charles, 1950- Cold Mountain (2003)

True writing (as opposed to pictographs) appeared around 3500 B.C.E. Writing was done on clay with sharp reeds, producing the wedgelike cuneiform script. ❋ Unknown (2001)

I hated to move; it was so white and silent outside, the flakes scudding past my lighted window; it was so comfortable in here, the room's shadows occasionally shifting as the wedgelike flames momentarily flickered. ❋ Finney, Jack (1995)

The nest of wood and thin tough vine had resisted only for a moment, and then it was among them, one thick paw and its wedgelike head squeezed into the box. ❋ Niven, Larry (1987)

Nik, coughing, held to his vantage point long enough to discover that the break was at the bottom of a wedgelike cut, the lips of which were far above. ❋ Norton, Andre (1965)

Eccard justly observes, that they had procured these arms in their march; for the Holsatian barrows of that age contain few weapons of brass, and none of iron; but stone spear-heads, and instead of swords, the wedgelike bodies vulgarly called thunderbolts. ❋ Caius Cornelius Tacitus (N/A)

His brows knit together into a wedgelike furrow, and with a twitch of pain he bit his underlip. ❋ Unknown (1931)

I saw a wedgelike gap between the mountains on the other shore and I thought that must be Luino. ❋ Hemingway, Ernest, 1899-1961 (1929)

He held Dietlof's hand, imploring him not to leave him, but Dietlof was the forerunner of the seven burghers who were forcing their way wedgelike through the English ranks in order to compel the enemy to surrender by attacking them from behind. ❋ Johanna Brandt (1920)

His brows knit together into a wedgelike furrow, and with a twitch of pain he bit his under-lip. ❋ Unknown (1890)

After a time, at the head of a long stretch of water, as both boats were running along side by side, they saw suddenly unfold before them the spectacle of a wide, green flood, beyond which rose a wedgelike range of lofty mountains, the inner peaks of which were topped with snow. ❋ Emerson Hough (1890)

Extraction is sometimes possible by straightening the members and obtaining such a presentation as will reduce the presenting mass to its smallest and most wedgelike dimensions. ❋ Charles B. Michener (1877)

He also demanded sixty boats, which, fastened together with cables and chains, furnished with projecting grappling-irons, and put in motion with the ebbing of the tide, were intended to second the operation of the mine-ships by being directed in a wedgelike form against the bridge. ❋ Johann Christoph Friedrich Von Schiller (1782)