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Injuries, certainly, have played their part but the Kiwis have gone pear-shaped faster than Marlon Brando.— Crikey » Canberra Calling
The gallbladder is a pear-shaped limb underneath the liver that collects and stores bile (a fluid made by the liver to digest fat).— Find Free Articles - ArticlesBase
"I used a jigsaw to mock I mean cut out this entrance for our pear-shaped cats."— Apartment Therapy Main
A majority of hailstones are roughly spherical, but many are conical, pear-shaped or flattened, and some assume other and more striking forms.— Modern Mechanix
Designed by Nick Foley, this hand-forged hollow steel tree bears three removable pear-shaped lights that are held on with a rare earth magnet.— Cool Hunting

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