Maybe the doughnut-shaped bobbins would work better?.    From Wordnik.com.  [What the *hell* am I doing? - And She Knits Too!] Reference

The Mint once considered producing doughnut-shaped coins!.    From Wordnik.com.  [and still more] Reference

The cervix is a small, doughnut-shaped mass of tissue at the base of the uterus.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Debate Over Sparing the Cervix in Hysterectomies] Reference

→ Tubes There are two basic types of float tube: U-shaped and doughnut-shaped.    From Wordnik.com.  [Reach More Fish from a Float Tube] Reference

The crawl space was doughnut-shaped, circling the machinery that must circle the funnel.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Ringworld Engineers]

The woman lying in the huge, doughnut-shaped magnet having her brain scanned is perfectly healthy.    From Wordnik.com.  [PUSHING THE BUY BUTTON] Reference

But it did not collide; the doughnut-shaped moon loomed larger, and soon Ida disappeared in largeness.    From Wordnik.com.  [Cube Route]

The patient simply lies on a table for five minutes with a doughnut-shaped scanner surrounding his chest.    From Wordnik.com.  [Checking Your Vessels] Reference

Eugenia glanced around frantically and spotted an old, doughnut-shaped life preserver hanging on the railing.    From Wordnik.com.  [Sharp Edges] Reference

Bagels: Much much more than simply a doughnut-shaped bread, bagels are traditionally boiled before being baked.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2006-05-01] Reference

These little doughnut-shaped baked goods are a combination of cookie, caramel, and toasted coconut with chocolate stripes.    From Wordnik.com.  [What Are Your Favorite Girl Scout Cookies? | myFiveBest] Reference

Every compartment in the personnel ring opened into the narrow doughnut-shaped hall which ran round the ring's forward rim.    From Wordnik.com.  [Tales of Known Space]

The doughnut-shaped casing of laminated fabrics is smoother and lighter than chains, so once fitted, the rubber composite design is safe on your tires.    From Wordnik.com.  [Snobootz offer a better grip on ice - SlipperyBrick.com] Reference

Another slightly unusual vada is made by combining different flours into a dough, making a flattened doughnut-shaped disc with the dough and deep-frying it.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2006-02-01] Reference

It looks like a big white doughnut and has 6 nonstick doughnut-shaped depressions for the dough, with a lid with matching depressions that comes down over it.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2008-10-01] Reference

Our school shared a round table it was doughnut-shaped and we were inside the doughnut hole with another school and with this guy who sells incredible cheeses.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2005-11-01] Reference

The driver is also doughnut-shaped to eliminate distortion.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNET Australia] Reference

Starr's contributions included a doughnut-shaped fireplace.    From Wordnik.com.  [Gaea Times (by Simple Thoughts) Breaking News and incisive views 24/7] Reference

This has the doughnut-shaped affair inside and the wire is wrapped around.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Quarter Century of Communications Development] Reference

The instrument mapped a doughnut-shaped region that covered some 7\% of the sky.    From Wordnik.com.  [TechNudge] Reference

The instrument mapped a doughnut-shaped region that covered some 7\% of the sky. via.    From Wordnik.com.  [GoodShit] Reference

Vortex rings, as these doughnut-shaped blasts are called, are a surprise coming from a moss.    From Wordnik.com.  [Latest Science News Features, Blog Entries, Column Entries, Issues, Articles and Book Reviews] Reference

This doughnut-shaped constituency is formed of an electorate from no fewer than four old seats.    From Wordnik.com.  [Yahoo! News: Latest news headlines News Headlines | Top Stories] Reference

The plasma would be contained in a magnetic field in a doughnut-shaped vessel called a tokamak.    From Wordnik.com.  [PhysOrg.com - latest science and technology news stories] Reference

The solution came from the Soviet Union in the late 1950s: a doughnut-shaped device called a tokamak.    From Wordnik.com.  [Telegraph.co.uk: news, business, sport, the Daily Telegraph newspaper, Sunday Telegraph] Reference

It's a weighted, doughnut-shaped beanbag with a flat surface in the middle for attaching the suction mount.    From Wordnik.com.  [SFGate: Top News Stories]

It consists of a dusty, doughnut-shaped cloud of gas and dust that feeds a central supermassive black hole.    From Wordnik.com.  [Image Gallery] Reference

Instead, look for a circular leather vest or a hand-knit vest made from two doughnut-shaped pieces stitched together.    From Wordnik.com.  [StarTribune.com rss feed] Reference

It will try to initiate fusion in a super-heated volume of gas constrained by magnetic fields in a doughnut-shaped vessel.    From Wordnik.com.  [EcoEarth.Info Environment RSS Newsfeed] Reference

Samoas: Round doughnut-shaped cookies with a hole in the center, covered in caramel and toasted coconut, then striped with chocolate.    From Wordnik.com.  [pal-item.com - Local News] Reference

His first "geometrical" device was a magnetoresistive sensor consisting of a metal disk embedded in a doughnut-shaped slab of semiconductor.    From Wordnik.com.  [WUSTL Record: University News] Reference

Experimental reactors called tokamaks are doughnut-shaped devices that contain ionised gas, or plasma, at temperatures of more than 100 million degrees.    From Wordnik.com.  [New Scientist - Online News] Reference

They determined that seasonal doughnut-shaped bloom (pictured at left) was being fed upon by zooplankton, which were in turn eaten my smaller fish, and on up the food chain.    From Wordnik.com.  [TreeHugger] Reference

30 miles northwest of Seattle) after being dragged by a doughnut-shaped Super.    From Wordnik.com.  [New Urban Legends] Reference

OMA said the complex's main building -- Mr. Koolhaas's gravity-defying, doughnut-shaped structure -- wasn't damaged.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Sky's No Longer the Limit] Reference