wedgelike

The peculiar V-shaped mouth with its pointed upper lip, the absence of brow ridges, the absence of a chin beneath the wedgelike lower lip, the incessant quivering of this mouth, the Gorgon groups of tentacles.

Ten of the best 2011

The walls of the chasm angled down on either side to form a wedgelike base.

Falcon Street 2010

The chairs, for instance, are known by nicknames as whimsical as the dance crazes from the same era: Nelson's wedgelike "" coconut, '' Jacobsen's ovoid "" egg, '' Saarinen's enveloping "" womb. ''

Modern Living 101 2008

Trailed by a pair of Starfleet security guards, Vumelko marched directly up to the nose of the Rocinante and slapped his palm on the side of the wedgelike forward fuselage.

Harbinger DAVID MACK 2005

Trailed by a pair of Starfleet security guards, Vumelko marched directly up to the nose of the Rocinante and slapped his palm on the side of the wedgelike forward fuselage.

Harbinger DAVID MACK 2005

He owned but one rusty black suit of clothes and a pair of old overlarge dress boots that curled up at the toes and were so worn down that the heels were wedgelike.

Cold Mountain Frazier, Charles, 1950- Cold Mountain 2003

True writing (as opposed to pictographs) appeared around 3500 B.C.E. Writing was done on clay with sharp reeds, producing the wedgelike cuneiform script.

b. Economy, Technology, Society, and Culture 2001

He owned but one rusty black suit of clothes and a pair of old overlarge dress boots that curled up at the toes and were so worn down that the heels were wedgelike.

Excerpt: Cold Mountain by Charles Frazier 1997

He owned but one rusty black suit of clothes and a pair of old overlarge dress boots that curled up at the toes and were so worn down that the heels were wedgelike.

Cold Mountain Frazier, Charles, 1950- Cold Mountain 1997

I hated to move; it was so white and silent outside, the flakes scudding past my lighted window; it was so comfortable in here, the room's shadows occasionally shifting as the wedgelike flames momentarily flickered.

Time and Again Finney, Jack 1995