Her raft, built of papyrus, was boat-shaped and graceful as a swan.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Yoke A Romance of the Days when the Lord Redeemed the Children of Israel from the Bondage of Egypt] Reference

The boat-shaped flatbreads (pides) are sometimes good, sometimes not.    From Wordnik.com.  [Tom Sietsema on Agora: A restaurateur turns to Turkey for revamp] Reference

It is boat-shaped, running to a sharp, cutting edge both in front and behind.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Motor Pirate] Reference

She had seen a white card sticking out of the funnel of an odd boat-shaped box.    From Wordnik.com.  [Madge Morton's Secret] Reference

The lamps found are of a curious boat-shaped form, and hold quite a lot of oil.    From Wordnik.com.  [Chatterbox, 1905.] Reference

The former, a shrub, or small tree, is the only local acacia with boat-shaped thorns.    From Wordnik.com.  [Sonoran-Sinaloan transition subtropical dry forest] Reference

After the flowers disappear, note the forming of the little boat-shaped pods in pairs.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ontario Teachers' Manuals: Nature Study] Reference

Another day with Guy, I dug a boat-shaped hole out of the black soil behind the garage.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Year on the Wing] Reference

What had once been a dark speck was now a boat-shaped shadow skipping along in front of them.    From Wordnik.com.  [Unspeakable] Reference

BATEMAN: The Humvees aren't -- we're buying new vehicles that have a boat-shaped hole underneath.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript May 27, 2007] Reference

Anne and Parick Poirier have designed a boat-shaped bathtub, called Vascabarca, for Antonio Lupi.    From Wordnik.com.  [2007 September 28 archive at eternallycool.net] Reference

He did not have the trim, boat-shaped body that swimmers have, and then, his feet were not webbed.    From Wordnik.com.  [Among the Farmyard People] Reference

It was roughly boat-shaped: humped near this end with behind them the jumbled descent to the shore.    From Wordnik.com.  [Lord of the Flies]

Within this petaloid perianth is a membranous one, together with a boat-shaped bracteolate body, entire.    From Wordnik.com.  [Journals of Travels in Assam, Burma, Bhootan, Afghanistan and the Neighbouring Countries] Reference

Years later, perhaps, Mundanes would discover it, and wonder whether a monster had chornped a boat-shaped bite out of it.    From Wordnik.com.  [Roc and a Hard Place]

At that the fleet of boat-shaped bodies paused; poised; equipped; mailed; then with a waver of undulation off they flashed.    From Wordnik.com.  [Between the Acts] Reference

The inflorescence is a panicle consisting of groups of dissimilar spikelets with compressed, boat-shaped spathes on peduncles.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses] Reference

The third glume is the largest, boat-shaped, 3-nerved, with ciliate keels, palea is 2-keeled, somewhat shorter than the glume.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses] Reference

Weights were hanging on the walls — lead and iron varieties, in pairs, mostly boat-shaped at the bottom, with top handles to grip.    From Wordnik.com.  [See Delphi and Die]

She smiled at the white cloud drifting westward -- a little boat-shaped cloud, with two white figures in it, sailing in the summer blue.    From Wordnik.com.  [Beth Woodburn] Reference

The 10-inch spike surrounded by a boat-shaped white bract is spectacular.    From Wordnik.com.  [Christian Science Monitor | All Stories] Reference

"We poured hot water into a little boat-shaped kid's-size swimming pool," she remembers.    From Wordnik.com. Reference

The female lays her elongated, oval eggs in a boat-shaped mass, which floats on the water.    From Wordnik.com.  [Our Common Insects A Popular Account of the Insects of Our Fields, Forests, Gardens and Houses] Reference

Giant ovens that rock back and forth bake the sand-like particles into a boat-shaped hull.    From Wordnik.com.  [Tennessean.com Top News] Reference

The researchers are using a boat-shaped EASI (Extreme Air-Sea Interaction) buoy and an ASIS.    From Wordnik.com.  [Earth News, Earth Science, Energy Technology, Environment News] Reference

The Durupınar site is the location of a boat-shaped formation, which was named after its discoverer.    From Wordnik.com.  [CreationWiki - Recent changes [en]] Reference

They talked and laughed, but he looked beyond their khaki uniforms and their boat-shaped caps unconsciously.    From Wordnik.com.  [Three Soldiers] Reference

Although boat-shaped above, they are without keels, and a rude step will turn them bottom upward in an instant.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Hunters' Feast Conversations Around the Camp Fire] Reference

If there are three or four of you, the seafood botanas - big, boat-shaped platters - also make appetizer sense.    From Wordnik.com.  [azcentral.com | news] Reference

The first quarter of the moon, low in the sky and looking like a boat-shaped Japanese lantern, lay above the forest.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Pools of Silence] Reference

His boat-shaped harp of thirteen strings was tuned in minor thirds, so you could readily pick out Celtic tunes on it.    From Wordnik.com.  [From Edinburgh to India & Burmah] Reference

Some are long and tubular in shape (fig. 66), while others are of the winged or boat-shaped type which is found on the.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Bronze Age in Ireland] Reference

These are the water boatmen, stout boat-shaped insects whose hind legs are long, projecting outward like the oars of a rowboat.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Log of the Sun A Chronicle of Nature's Year] Reference