Below, a tiny eel-shaped island surrounded by a black sea.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ringworld]

Macrognathus, body eel-shaped, with a row of movable spines along the back.    From Wordnik.com.  [Journals of Travels in Assam, Burma, Bhootan, Afghanistan and the Neighbouring Countries] Reference

Friend of a dude who got bit by something eel-shaped while said dude was skinny dipping.    From Wordnik.com.  [HH COM 471] Reference

A narrow eel-shaped island, subsequently known as the Isle de Galilée, lay between the Isle of the.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Story of Paris] Reference

Tim stopped short, with the little shovel of his shot-belt in his hand, as he felt the long leathern eel-shaped case carefully.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Dingo Boys The Squatters of Wallaby Range] Reference

Furthermore, after checking the net thoroughly, my catch was a single see-through eel-shaped filament that would not have supported a devout anorexic on a size-zero diet.    From Wordnik.com.  [Telegraph.co.uk: news, business, sport, the Daily Telegraph newspaper, Sunday Telegraph] Reference

The tiny eel-shaped fish from Laos grows to just over 20mm and was named Pangio longimanus by the Museum's ichthyologist (fish expert) Dr Ralf Britz and Dr Maurice Kottelat of the National University Singapore.    From Wordnik.com.  [PhysOrg.com - latest science and technology news stories] Reference

I am neither eel-shaped nor translucent.    From Wordnik.com.  [bad manners in the sun | clusterflock] Reference

Looking closer, to my great surprise, I found they were actually fish out of water, going on a walking tour, for change of air, to a new residence -- genuine fish, a couple of inches long each, not eel-shaped or serpentine in outline, but closely resembling a red mullet in miniature, though much more beautifully and delicately coloured, and with fins and tails of the most orthodox spiny and prickly description.    From Wordnik.com.  [Falling in Love With Other Essays on More Exact Branches of Science] Reference