cone-shaped

• “Ultimately the Yithians use their ability to escape the destruction of their planet in another galaxy by switching bodies with a race of cone-shaped beings who lived 250 million years ago on Earth.”

  H. P. Lovecraft "At the Mountains of Madness" and other masterpieces of terror

• “The cone-shaped entities (now also known as the Great Race of Yith) live in a vast city in what would later become Australia Great Desert.”

  H. P. Lovecraft "At the Mountains of Madness" and other masterpieces of terror

• “Power is transmitted from the engine to wheels using a system of belts and cone-shaped pulleys.”

  The Wall Street Journal: Technology That Makes Left Feet Obsolete

• “Is McDonnel planning to declare in next May a ‘white cone-shaped hood’ day?!”

  Think Progress » Virginia Gov. McDonnell proclaims April ‘Confederate History Month.’

• “Their eyesight became so bad that often they would not realize they had stumbled into a mountain village with its distinctively cone-shaped houses until they were practically on top of it.”

  Simon & Schuster: Alexander the Great

• “In direct moxibustion, a small, cone-shaped amount of moxa is placed on top of an acupuncture point and burned.”

  The Huffington Post: Hollye Harrington Jacobs: Exploring the World of Alternative Breast Cancer Treatments

• “As the cold war ushered in jutting, cone-shaped bras, the business passed to Peller's cousin, who continued its bespoke service despite the industry's own nuclear threat: the Wonderbra, which rose to prominence, so to speak, in North America in the late 1960s.”

  The Guardian: From corsets for comedians to bespoke bras: Rigby & Peller has seen it all

• “There's a cone-shaped joint the length of a Bic pen filled with Colorado-grown cannabis burning in the ashtray a few inches from my keyboard right now and I'm going to get paid to smoke it and write about it.”

  The Guardian: Watching grass grow – now that's what I call a job | William Breathes

• “Dried herbs were what you cooked with back then, and the pretty little cone-shaped rosemary plant was quite a novelty.”

  The Washington Post: Chat Leftovers: That bottle of smoke

• “[The LEEP procedure uses electrical current transmitted through tiny wires in a loop that removes the cone-shaped tissue from the cervix and cauterize the tissue left behind to control bleeding.]”

  The Huffington Post: Patricia Yarberry Allen: What to Do if You Have Genital HPV

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