funnel-shaped
Example Sentences
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The front yard was mostly dead grass; the driveway was cracked and broken from runoff whenever it rained; and the funnel-shaped backyard was overwhelmed by a rotting wood pergola.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 15, 2024
He steered wide of a funnel-shaped chute — hazardous terrain, its surface sliced up from recent snowmobile traffic — and worked his way higher.
From Seattle Times • Feb. 2, 2024
Most fungi in this family have shallow bowls, but the Fluted Bird's Nest is more funnel-shaped, with its ribbed tube faceted by spiky, wooly tufts.
From Salon • Apr. 30, 2023
The funnel-shaped bins would be introduced at 25 service areas in the North West, said Highways England.
From BBC • Sep. 19, 2017
It was pocked all over with little funnel-shaped snares, where the ant lions lay buried at the bottom, waiting for some poor insect to stumble into the trap and get devoured.
From "The Poisonwood Bible" by Barbara Kingsolver
