One rotated an hourglass-shaped flask at precise two-minute intervals.    From Wordnik.com.  [Nemesis]

His golden eyes with their dark, hourglass-shaped pupils glittered coldly.    From Wordnik.com.  [Dragons of Winter Night]

It's a big, blue hourglass-shaped bottle that houses a metal coffee-filter basket in one end.    From Wordnik.com.  [Why Making Iced Coffee at Home Is Such a Grind] Reference

Cruiser coasts along on hourglass-shaped wheels, and adjustable stabilizer arms keep it upright.    From Wordnik.com.  [Robot Cable Crawler | Impact Lab] Reference

In fact, if the pants are large as well, I suspect she may be a small-boned, hourglass-shaped girl.    From Wordnik.com.  [quite possibly perfect - A Dress A Day] Reference

In the distance she could see the massive hourglass-shaped body glistening evilly in an eerie light.    From Wordnik.com.  [Angelmass]

Then a gleaming piece of burnished metal, an hourglass-shaped nozzle for the Merlin, caught Musk's eye.    From Wordnik.com.  [Elon Musk Is Betting His Fortune on a Mission Beyond Earth's Orbit] Reference

He held the amphora dangling in his right hand and his Lightblade, an hourglass-shaped Roman Pugio dagger, in the other.    From Wordnik.com.  [Shadow Chase] Reference

Socrates put the coffee cloth in the top of the funnel and wedged the tin spout in the mouth of an hourglass-shaped Pyrex jug.    From Wordnik.com.  [Always Outnumbered, Always Outgunned] Reference

From indium-coated snowboards and hourglass-shaped skis, science is promising to coax stellar performances from the Olympians.    From Wordnik.com.  [Science Of Speed] Reference

The hourglass-shaped bipolar nebula in the new Gemini image is a stellar nursery made up of glowing gas, plasma, and light-scattering dust.    From Wordnik.com.  [Gemini's New Filters Reveal the Beauty of Star Birth | Universe Today] Reference

They keep silver absinthe spoons on the wall and hourglass-shaped contraptions that drip water from miniature faucets onto sugarcubes on the bar.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2009-08-01] Reference

Women around the world tend to have larger waist-to-hip ratios—more cylindrical rather than hourglass-shaped bodies—than is considered optimal.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2008-12-01] Reference

Horolodectes means 'hourglass biter', in reference to the creature's peculiar hourglass-shaped pre-molars, the teeth between the canine and the molars.    From Wordnik.com.  [Science Press Releases] Reference

She held out the glittering jewel to him, until it seemed to float by itself, a shining, hourglass-shaped orb of promise and hope and everything anyone could ever want.    From Wordnik.com.  [THE FALL OF TEROK NOR] Reference

However, women around the world tend to have larger waist-to-hip ratios more cylindrical than hourglass-shaped than is considered optimal by these medical and social standards.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Best Female Figure] Reference

The hourglass-shaped nebula extending in the east-west direction.    From Wordnik.com.  [PhysOrg.com - latest science and technology news stories] Reference

Affected knees or ankles exhibit an hourglass-shaped, firm swelling just above the joints.    From Wordnik.com.  [TheHorse.com News] Reference

It doesn't have a handle, and looks more like an hourglass-shaped paperweight made of ivory.    From Wordnik.com.  [NPR Topics: News] Reference

It doesn't have a handle, and it looks more like an hourglass-shaped paperweight made of ivory.    From Wordnik.com.  [NPR Topics: News] Reference

With a Chemex, coffee is placed in a paper filter that sits in the top half of an hourglass-shaped glass vessel.    From Wordnik.com.  [post-gazette.com - News] Reference

His target wasn't the pin placed on the lower-tier of the hourglass-shaped green during a morning practice round.    From Wordnik.com.  [Channel3000.com - Local News] Reference

The brush is made of flexible, rubbery bristles (which seems to be the latest trend in mascara brushes) and is hourglass-shaped.    From Wordnik.com.  [Epinions Recent Content for Home] Reference

The hourglass-shaped Chemex holds a filter and grounds above its neck, but water is heated in and poured from a different container.    From Wordnik.com.  [Articles on CollegiateTimes.com] Reference

Vertigo snus, which came in deep red, hourglass-shaped cans, flopped with buyers and was discontinued. at Credit Agricole Cheuvreux.    From Wordnik.com. Reference

A floral filigree resembles a book's marbled endpapers in another piece; elsewhere, a city flourishes in an hourglass-shaped biosphere.    From Wordnik.com.  [artforum.com] Reference

Eta Carinae, wedged between gigantic hourglass-shaped clouds of material that it sloughed off, is a classic example of this kind of star.    From Wordnik.com.  [New Scientist - Space] Reference

For most people, these hourglass-shaped concrete cooling towers probably bring back bad memories of the March 1979 Three-Mile Island nuclear plant accident.    From Wordnik.com. Reference

Clutch-drive - This is screwdriver has an hourglass-shaped tip that is especially useful when you need extra holding power, as when working on cars or appliances.    From Wordnik.com.  [ReadABlog.com New Blogs and RSS Feeds] Reference

After the experiment, the researchers could slow down the movie and, aided by computer simulations, calculate the speed of air as it blew out of the hourglass-shaped tube.    From Wordnik.com.  [Latest Science News Features, Blog Entries, Column Entries, Issues, Articles and Book Reviews] Reference

So for all the hourglass-shaped women tired of fruitlessly trying to wriggle into straight skirts or fit them to their hips, the trend is a wearable cause for celebration.    From Wordnik.com.  [KansasCity.com: Front Page] Reference

Couloir: A funnel- or hourglass-shaped snow-filled gully, usually exposed to rock and ice falling into it.    From Wordnik.com.  [Between a Rock and a Hard Place] Reference

The American-inflected alto sax, electric guitar, bass and trap drums meld with a Carnatic trio of alto sax, violin and the hourglass-shaped hand drum.    From Wordnik.com.  [NPR Topics: News] Reference

Mobility: Electric motors drive hourglass-shaped wheels that straddle the cable crest to help the ‘bot keep its balance, and stabilizer arms prevent it from rolling over.    From Wordnik.com.  [Robot Cable Crawler | Impact Lab] Reference