Example Sentences

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DART, a car-sized box with two winglike solar panels, will soon be heading toward a binary asteroid system.

From Scientific American • Nov. 18, 2021

The seed may have travelled there on a gust of wind, its flight aided by a winglike attachment to the nut.

From The New Yorker • Jan. 13, 2020

Saarinen’s concrete structure, with its soaring, winglike vaulted roof, its huge fields of glass, and its thrilling interior curves, cantilevers and airy mezzanines, is one of the great buildings of the past century.

From Washington Post • Jun. 12, 2019

The mechanism moves the plane’s horizontal tail, a winglike structure on the tail that helps the plane climb and descend.

From Seattle Times • Mar. 15, 2019

Just before dark, they began skimming across the water, their short, winglike fins taking them on flights of twenty or thirty feet, sometimes more.

From "The Cay" by Theodore Taylor