Attached to this strip were small gourd-like sacks or bags.    From Wordnik.com.  [In Darkness » Blog Archive » From the Archives: Day 2] Reference

It has a very interesting appearance with a gourd-like protruding apex.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2005-03-01] Reference

She had another small gourd-like gut-stringed instrument about as long as a uke and a third as wide.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2010-04-01] Reference

Here we have plainly indicated the little gourd-like, hard-shelled, and variegated squashes that are often cultivated as ornamental plants.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Field and Garden Vegetables of America Containing Full Descriptions of Nearly Eleven Hundred Species and Varietes; With Directions for Propagation, Culture and Use.] Reference

We could seed Mars, for instance, and return to find it pocked with gourd-like homes held together by a fledgling infrastructure of engineered vines.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2006-06-01] Reference

No cars, no autoplanes ... just a rustling mass of aliens, chuttering endlessly in their harsh sibilant language, scraping their hard spiny limbs and bodies against each other and the rounded, gourd-like walls.    From Wordnik.com.  [Asimov's Science Fiction]

In half an hour he was back with fruit and a hollow gourd-like vegetable filled with water.    From Wordnik.com.  [Tarzan of the Apes] Reference

It would have been as short-lived as Dean Tounson anticipated, if its growth had been as gourd-like.    From Wordnik.com.  [Sir Walter Ralegh A Biography] Reference

Could the foul-mouthed kid from the Bad News Bears really have a head that's sufficiently gourd-like?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Major Spoilers] Reference

The impressive gourd-like vegetables look so appetising as their burnt orange skins shine in the sun.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Guardian World News] Reference

Prices range from moderate (for a clutch) to several thousand euros for a long gourd-like shoulder bag.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Globe and Mail - Home RSS feed] Reference

The legend of the man -- a thing often so very other than the man himself -- grew, Jonah's gourd-like, in wild luxuriance.    From Wordnik.com.  [The History of Sir Richard Calmady A Romance] Reference

The gourd-like fruits, which probably originated in Mexico over 5,000 years ago, are best when de-seeded, roasted, and peeled.    From Wordnik.com.  [Columbia Spectator - News, sports, and entertainment coverage for the Morningside Heights community in New York City.] Reference

The opening game on June 11, between South Africa and Mexico, and the final, will be played at the stadium that is built in the shape of a calabash - a gourd-like vegetable that is hollowed out and used as a ladle or to make musical instruments in many parts of Africa.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Earth Times Online Newspaper] Reference

Occasionally the older people would pick up their instruments -- bagpipes of sheepskin, small drums and gourd-like mandolines -- and draw from them strange dronings, gurglings, thrummings, twangings; soon a group of youngsters would rise gravely from the ground and, without any preconcerted signal, begin to move in.    From Wordnik.com.  [South Wind] Reference

Could the foul-mouthed kid from the Bad News Bears really have a head that’s sufficiently gourd-like?.    From Wordnik.com.  [MSP#144: The Blackest Night Podcast (Part 1) | Major Spoilers - Comic Book Reviews and News] Reference

You’re shopping in the fruit and vegetable section when you spy a reddish gourd-like fruit with a little crown on top.    From Wordnik.com.  [How Do You "Open" A Pomegranate?] Reference

Till plaited cot, a gourd-like pendant.    From Wordnik.com.  [Song-waves] Reference

Fell, and the long and gourd-like fruit began.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Complete Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley — Volume 1] Reference

Flaunting her gourd-like nest.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Woman's Love Letters] Reference