Frankly, no one knows what the bell-shaped curve is.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Trouble With Optimism] Reference

Shoulder-cloak and breeches, hat with bell-shaped crown.    From Wordnik.com.  [Poems Teachers Ask For, Book Two] Reference

The cut is that of a bell-shaped barrow of the Bronze Age.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Prehistoric World; or, Vanished races] Reference

It is enclosed in a bell-shaped covering called the pericardium.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Practical Physiology] Reference

The somewhat bell-shaped elegantly drooping flowers impart quite.    From Wordnik.com.  [Scientific American Supplement, No. 288, July 9, 1881] Reference

The calyx is a bright brown colour, rather large and bell-shaped.    From Wordnik.com.  [Hardy Perennials and Old Fashioned Flowers Describing the Most Desirable Plants, for Borders, Rockeries, and Shrubberies.] Reference

Petersen gets briefed on how to walk in her bell-shaped white gown.    From Wordnik.com.  [Learn An Opera In Two Days? No Problem] Reference

The last three terraces form sweeping circles, flanked by bell-shaped.    From Wordnik.com.  [Through the Malay Archipelago] Reference

You see, the standard takes the form of the well-known bell-shaped curve.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Great Gray Plague] Reference

Even the peasants wear sheepskin coats, bell-shaped and richly embroidered.    From Wordnik.com.  [Trapped in 'Black Russia' Letters June-November 1915] Reference

A bell-shaped cover incloses the conductors at the other end of the armature.    From Wordnik.com.  [Scientific American Supplement, No. 841, February 13, 1892] Reference

They are sometimes bell-shaped and then flattened, often with a mound or umbo.    From Wordnik.com.  [Among the Mushrooms A Guide For Beginners] Reference

The flowers are bell-shaped, pendent, blue, and produced in racemes of many flowers.    From Wordnik.com.  [Hardy Perennials and Old Fashioned Flowers Describing the Most Desirable Plants, for Borders, Rockeries, and Shrubberies.] Reference

It is bell-shaped, becoming broadly open like a trumpet, and of a slate or ash color.    From Wordnik.com.  [Among the Mushrooms A Guide For Beginners] Reference

Stem short, ridged, spiny; calyx tube of the flower large, bell-shaped; ovary and fruit scaly.    From Wordnik.com.  [Cactus Culture for Amateurs Being Descriptions of the Various Cactuses Grown in This Country, With Full and Practical Instructions for Their Successful Cultivation] Reference

It is merely a bell-shaped, or flaring body, the large end of which is directed to the audience.    From Wordnik.com.  [Practical Mechanics for Boys] Reference

Campanulate: bell-shaped: more or less ventricose at the base and a little recurved at the margin.    From Wordnik.com.  [Explanation of Terms Used in Entomology] Reference

Upon it stands a bell-shaped case about three feet in height, and three feet in diameter at the base.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Story of Ida Pfeiffer and Her Travels in Many Lands] Reference

In this genus also the stem is cartilaginous, the cap is sometimes bell-shaped (campanulate) and slender.    From Wordnik.com.  [Among the Mushrooms A Guide For Beginners] Reference

Here there are no petals, but what we see and admire so much is the bell-shaped corolla, purple-red in colour.    From Wordnik.com.  [Wildflowers of the Farm] Reference

Intelligence is distributed in a bell-shaped curve, but beauty is bestowed discontinuously, on the star system.    From Wordnik.com.  [Beyond The Bell Curve] Reference

Smokeless powders are all to be ground in a bell-shaped coffee mill as finely as possible, and sifted as hitherto.    From Wordnik.com.  [Nitro-Explosives: A Practical Treatise] Reference

Flowers bell-shaped, 4 in. across; sepals narrow, scarlet; petals incurved and of a fiery orange-scarlet colour.    From Wordnik.com.  [Cactus Culture for Amateurs Being Descriptions of the Various Cactuses Grown in This Country, With Full and Practical Instructions for Their Successful Cultivation] Reference

But, surprisingly, that effect doesn't seem to follow a normal bell-shaped curve, like most physiological variables.    From Wordnik.com.  [Stress] Reference

Fritillarias produce bell-shaped flowers, varying in colour, but generally of a purplish tint, and beautifully spotted.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Culture of Vegetables and Flowers From Seeds and Roots 16th Edition] Reference

At three he was put into sailor's costume, with the bell-shaped trousers so dear to the hearts of English mothers fifty years ago.    From Wordnik.com.  [William of Germany] Reference

The flowers are very small, broadly bell-shaped, and of a feathery appearance, from the fact of their petals being finely divided.    From Wordnik.com.  [Hardy Perennials and Old Fashioned Flowers Describing the Most Desirable Plants, for Borders, Rockeries, and Shrubberies.] Reference

 An awful pink velvet, ruffled sleeves and neckline looped with lace, its bell-shaped, formless fall past the hip: timelessly bad.    From Wordnik.com.  [For A Day] Reference

For so small a plant the flower is large, more than an inch across when expanded, but usually it keeps of a roundish, bell-shaped form.    From Wordnik.com.  [Hardy Perennials and Old Fashioned Flowers Describing the Most Desirable Plants, for Borders, Rockeries, and Shrubberies.] Reference

Roughly two thirds of all Americans fall between 85 and 115, in the fat midsection of the bell-shaped curve, and 95 percent score between 70 and 130.    From Wordnik.com.  [Testing The Science Of Intelligence] Reference

The flowers grow in loose panicles at the extremity of the stalks, and the calyx is bell-shaped, and divided at its summit into five pointed segments.    From Wordnik.com.  [Tobacco; Its History, Varieties, Culture, Manufacture and Commerce] Reference

On his head he wore a high, bell-shaped, broad-brimmed hat, from which depended a long, sky-blue veil, which he used to protect his eyes from the sunshine.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 18, No. 109, November, 1866] Reference