Usage examples (21)

• The trees were coming out in the back garden; there were little leaves — little ear-shaped leaves on the bushes.
• On each side of this mouth there will be found in the fly a pair of ear-shaped flaps or lobes, and these play a very important part.
• The retractable cat ear-shaped spoilers that can protrude from the roof are expected to help slow the train more quickly than conventional brakes.
• But when it came time to cut the dumplings off into signature squares, something possessed me to try smushing them into the ear-shaped pasta orecchiette instead.