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barrel-shaped

ADJECTIVE
  1. having the general shape of a barrel

How To Use barrel-shaped In A Sentence

  • The initial solution was the masonry vault, or a barrel-shaped, load-bearing span that supported the floor above, and rested on massive, and expensive, walls and piers.
  • While the 15mm adult is heavy, barrel-shaped and wingless, the young beetles are tiny. Country diary: Orwell, Cambridgeshire
  • The lots include two 19th century Chinese barrel-shaped garden seats (£1,500-£2,000); an ornate giltwood overmantel mirror from the late 19th century (£1,000-£1,500); a pair of French faux-crocodile-skin binoculars (£500-£800); and a late 18th century English stained and painted model of a 62-gun ship (yours for £2,000-£4,000). Lehman's corporate art collection goes under the hammer at Christies
  • What Ms. Page wanted was a barrel-shaped roof like one on a house she'd seen in Maine. A Dream House's Difficult Birth
  • The main distinction of the tabla is the pairing of two different types of single-headed drums, whereas the dukkar, dukra, and duggi are pairs of the same type and the mridangam and dhol are double-headed, barrel-shaped drums. Archive 2009-10-01
  • There is a barrel-shaped tower dedicated to the Brownings, a pyramid to Moses, a battlement-like tower dedicated to General John C. Frémont. Joaquin Miller
  • He scrambled up onto the stone table where the golem sat, clambered onto her leg, and climbed the metal piping that crisscrossed her barrel-shaped torso. GuildWars Edge of Destiny
  • Poetry, who is the barrel-shaped member of our gang, had made up a poem about our new teacher, whom not a one of us liked very well, on account of not wanting a _new_ teacher when we'd liked our pretty lady other teacher so _extra_ well. Shenanigans at Sugar Creek
  •    A large barrel-shaped man in a thick, brimless hat had stepped ponderously up to the bar, and was talking to Joe with glimmering eyes. Lips that Touch Liquor: The Gin Buck
  • And The French cooperative says its butter is still made in barrel-shaped churns and "matured" for more than a day to give the cream a slight tang. Plusher Pats
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