The drone is a wing-shaped aircraft, like the stealth bomber, a design that is supposed to make it less visible to radar. ❋ Julian E. Barnes (2011)
The craft, called a Wave Glider, consists of a surface buoy and a submerged glider with wing-shaped panels. ❋ Emily Glazer (2011)
The 4,000-foot wing-shaped edifice is riddled with bullet holes from the Battle of Berlin and flanked by imposing Reichsadler Eagles of the German Empire. ❋ A.J. Goldmann (2011)
The craft, which consists of a surface buoy and a submerged glider with wing-shaped panels, converts the up-and-down motion of waves into forward thrust, making it possible to propel the buoy indefinitely without relying on batteries or other power sources. ❋ Michael Totty (2010)
Last Friday at noon, the wing-shaped brise-soleil that soars atop architect Santiago Calatrava's pavilion at the Milwaukee Art Museum closed and opened again. ❋ Heidi Waleson (2010)
Her complexion was creamy and sun-bronzed, setting off two wing-shaped dark eyes that twinkled with intelligence above the high, angular planes of her cheekbones. ❋ Unknown (2010)
Before the buggy could pull me, I had to learn how to control the airplane wing-shaped. ❋ Unknown (2010)
Though born looking completely normal, once the cat hit the age of 1, he began growing wing-shaped appendages on either side of his spine, the U.K.'s Daily Mail reports. ❋ Will (2009)
The mystery of who was standing atop the tower is revealed and what she had in that strangely wing-shaped valise, as well, the Birds of Prey escape, and the Sixers are left high and dry. ❋ Unknown (2009)
In a 10-mile test, he said, a rider on a time-trial bike, an event-specific bike which features wing-shaped tubes and puts the rider in a position that mimics a ski racer's sleek tuck, was able to hold the same speed over the 10-mile ride as a rider on a traditional road bike while using 25% less effort. ❋ Unknown (2008)
The hub's wing-shaped design and its underground passageways and underpinnings have proved to be difficult to execute within the original $2 billion budget. ❋ Unknown (2008)
My fingers brushed the wood with delight at the cool surface and the grooves of the axmarks, wing-shaped and regular as a flight of geese along the beam. ❋ Gabaldon, Diana (2005)
About a bush with green-and-silver wing-shaped leaves and purple blossoms, and invisible butterflies that glowed in the dusk... ❋ Hawkwing_lb (2005)
Calatrava's avian obsession first manifested itself in the wing-shaped glass-and-steel canopy over the entrance to his Wohlen High School of 1983 – 1988 in Wohlen, Switzerland, but really took off with the pterodactylian wings of his Lyons Airport Station of 1989 – 1994 in France, one of several train terminals he has built. ❋ Filler, Martin (2005)
Its wing-shaped lid was propped upright, its curved cabriole legs a study in grace. ❋ Medeiros, Teresa, 1962- (2003)
The firelight glimmered on the wing-shaped marks of the ax, running along the length of each log, regular as sand ripples on a beach. ❋ Gabaldon, Diana (1997)
To complete the image of an owl-mask, his eyebrows were enormous, as long as Kestrel's thumb, and wing-shaped. ❋ Lackey, Mercedes (1993)
Its name comes from a word meaning dovelike, because of its wing-shaped flower, and thus it becomes a botanical emblem of the Holy Ghost. ❋ Gertrude Grace Sill (1975)
