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In an added irony, Cohen found that his rod-like physique made him a difficult target for enemy gunmen.

Emmett Rensin: Hipster Joins Marines, Wins Purple Heart In Ultimate Act Of Irony 2009

The Z-ring pinches the rod-like body into two microbial sausages that finally split apart.

‘Z-ring’ Helps Bacteria Cells Divide | Impact Lab 2007

As well as immobilizing prey, poisonous rhabdoids, rod-like structures produced in the epidermis, on the front external surface also help deter potential predators.

Platyhelminthes 2007

I immediately thought of pangolins on reading the news about the Tube-lipped nectar bat Anoura fistulata: the pangolin tongue 'roots' on the xiphisternum, a rod-like cartilaginous extension of the breastbone located on the ventral surface of the abdomen.

Andean Bats 2006

Ten years ago, scientists from NASA said they had found small rod-like structures in the meteorite that were believed to be fossil bacteria.

Archive 2006-08-01 Mac 2006

Threading its way out from among his grey hairs, and continuing right down one side of his tawny scorched face and neck, till it disappeared in his clothing, you saw a slender rod-like mark, lividly whitish.

Moby Dick; or the Whale 2002

When they looked at the results of the spinal tap, they found in the fluid what are rod-like structures with spores.

CNN Transcript Oct 5, 2001 2001

When they looked at the results of the spinal tap, they found in the fluid what are rod-like structures with spores.

CNN Transcript Oct 5, 2001 2001

There was a hump on the front of her skrode, and a rod-like projection.

A Fire Upon the Deep Vinge, Vernor 1992

The scaffolding consisted of two heavy rod-like sections diametrically opposite each other around the circle of the rim of the end-wall of each ship.

The Far Call Dickson, Gordon R 1978