A number of dome-shaped ovens have been built outside the walls. From Wordnik.com. [A Study of Pueblo Architecture: Tusayan and Cibola Eighth Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1886-1887, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1891, pages 3-228] Reference
Cibola the large dome-shaped ovens, common to the Pueblos of the Rio. From Wordnik.com. [A Study of Pueblo Architecture: Tusayan and Cibola Eighth Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1886-1887, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1891, pages 3-228] Reference
The original station was replaced byanew dome-shaped station in 1975. From Wordnik.com. [South Pole] Reference
There is one actually on that first level, it is a dome-shaped camera. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Mar 12, 2005] Reference
It was a dome-shaped structure fully ten meters across and half as high. From Wordnik.com. [The Nitrogen Fix]
The camp consisted of dome-shaped, sheet-iron barracks and tented areas. From Wordnik.com. [The Delta of the Triple Elevens The History of Battery D, 311th Field Artillery US Army, American Expeditionary Forces] Reference
This one was dome-shaped, with a single massive stalagmite in the center. From Wordnik.com. [Harpy Thyme]
The cavern they had entered was almost circular and had a dome-shaped roof. From Wordnik.com. [Ruth Fielding on Cliff Island Or, The Old Hunter's Treasure Box] Reference
Best of all was the enormous dome-shaped silver one, which opened like a box. From Wordnik.com. [Maigret's Revolver]
It seemed to be made of stone and brick below, with a dome-shaped roof above. From Wordnik.com. [Harpy Thyme]
Note 1: derby, a man's stiff felt hat with dome-shaped crown and narrow brim. From Wordnik.com. [Blind Willie McTell Lyrics] Reference
Hundreds of white dome-shaped tents are lined up in rows on a graded plateau. From Wordnik.com. [Poor Planning Mars Haiti's Efforts To Move Survivors] Reference
The leaf grows by a dome-shaped instead of by the usual two-sided initial cell. From Wordnik.com. [Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 3 "Brescia" to "Bulgaria"] Reference
Near it rose a dome-shaped mound like an Eskimo hut in form but many times larger. From Wordnik.com. [Where the Sun Swings North] Reference
Then they began to build a dome-shaped lodge of small pieces of trees and the clay. From Wordnik.com. [Thirty Indian Legends] Reference
The shell was quite small, a simple dome-shaped plate upon the anterior part of the body. From Wordnik.com. [Wild Nature Won By Kindness] Reference
Here the excavation was made in the side of a hill, and a rude, dome-shaped chimney built over it. From Wordnik.com. [The Prehistoric World; or, Vanished races] Reference
From the neat tufts at his heels to the top of his dome-shaped head, there was a royalty about him. From Wordnik.com. [The Uninvited]
Drains were contrived under the palaces, and certain square rooms were covered with dome-shaped vaults. From Wordnik.com. [The American Architect and Building News, Vol. 27, No. 733, January 11, 1890] Reference
Corky pointed at the flat expanse of ocean floor, where a large dome-shaped mound rose up like a bubble. From Wordnik.com. [Deception Point]
The symmetrical dome-shaped crown and the dense foliage of restful dark green give to it a fine appearance. From Wordnik.com. [Ontario Teachers' Manuals: Nature Study] Reference
The dome-shaped structure has a cross section that roughly corresponds to the shape of an inverted catenary. From Wordnik.com. [5. Building with Unbonded Pumice] Reference
Above the window openings rises a dome-shaped ceiling, in carved marble, with a pendent canopy in the center. From Wordnik.com. [Scientific American Supplement, No. 488, May 9, 1885] Reference
She said the names carefully, adding, ‘And the ones that grow by the beach — the big, dome-shaped ones?’. From Wordnik.com. [The Rich Man's Royal Mistress]
The squatting slab is dome-shaped which ensures maximum strength with minimal thickness of non-reinforced concrete7. From Wordnik.com. [6. Sanitation: General Principles] Reference
A fixed-dome plant comprises a closed, dome-shaped digester with an immovable, rigid gasholder and a displacement pit. From Wordnik.com. [5. Biogas technique] Reference
In other cases they were square, with the roof dome-shaped, the walls plastered with mud to the height of twelve feet. From Wordnik.com. [The Prehistoric World; or, Vanished races] Reference
The great mass of a chulpa is solid, but within is a dome-shaped chamber, into which the opening seen in the cut leads. From Wordnik.com. [The Prehistoric World; or, Vanished races] Reference
Kin Cheung/Associated Press People watched a multimedia show in "The Bubble," a dome-shaped theater at the casino complex. From Wordnik.com. [City of Dreams Opens in Macau] Reference
There he saw not just one, but several, perfectly symmetrical archways, each an entrance to a circular, dome-shaped structure. From Wordnik.com. [The Plains of Passage]
The crown tends to be symmetrical and dome-shaped, although the varieties of white fir may exhibit differences in crown shape. From Wordnik.com. [White fir] Reference
The disk containing the enameled letters is taken at the end of a long iron handle and carefully placed in a dome-shaped muffle. From Wordnik.com. [Scientific American Supplement, No. 841, February 13, 1892] Reference
Fine white grains of gypsum are blown by the winds to form a variety of dune types: dome-shaped, barchan, transverse, and parabolic. From Wordnik.com. [Ecoregions of New Mexico (EPA)] Reference
In 1977 a dome-shaped experimental structure made of fabric-packed bulk material was erected on the research laboratory's test grounds. From Wordnik.com. [5. Building with Unbonded Pumice] Reference
A floating-drum biogas plant essentially consists of a cylindrical or dome-shaped digester and a movable, floating gasholder, or drum. From Wordnik.com. [5. Biogas technique] Reference
After walking several miles they arrived at a large chamber with massive stone arches, crudely cut, reaching to a dome-shaped ceiling. From Wordnik.com. [The Coming of the King] Reference
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