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- adjective Resembling a
pipe or some aspect of one.
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Examples
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Complementing this exhibition of six sculptures (from 1953-1960) are photographs (also by Smith) in which the artist staged his metalwork - made from industrial scraps and flat plates cut in idiosyncratic shapes and pipelike concave and convex forms - in the landscape near his studio at Lake George, N.Y.
Art reviews: 'Philip Guston, Roma' and 'David Smith Invents' at the Phillips Philip Kennicott 2011
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It is revealed that the King is terminally ill of a fistula (to Shakespeare it was a long pipelike ulcer).
Capsule Summaries of the Great Books of the Western World Jonathan Aquino 2009
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My only experience with a 410 slug is on a cerial box in a tree at a distance the width of a gas pipelike right of way.
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It is revealed that the King is terminally ill of a fistula (to Shakespeare it was a long pipelike ulcer).
Archive 2009-03-01 Jonathan Aquino 2009
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My only experience with a 410 slug is on a cerial box in a tree at a distance the width of a gas pipelike right of way.
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Down in the cave, deep in her pipelike vertical tunnel, Zoe was jackhammering away when suddenly the chisel of her jackhammer popped through the rubble at her feet and the ground gave way and she fell six feet, landing clumsily in a dark horizontal tunnel.
THE 5 GREATEST WARRIORS MATTHEW REILLY 2010
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Jack then gently pulled the skeleton of Genghis Khan off its slab, to reveal something beneath it: a round pipelike shaft that appeared to delve into the floor beneath the slab.
THE 5 GREATEST WARRIORS MATTHEW REILLY 2010
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Down in the cave, deep in her pipelike vertical tunnel, Zoe was jackhammering away when suddenly the chisel of her jackhammer popped through the rubble at her feet and the ground gave way and she fell six feet, landing clumsily in a dark horizontal tunnel.
THE 5 GREATEST WARRIORS MATTHEW REILLY 2010
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Down in the cave, deep in her pipelike vertical tunnel, Zoe was jackhammering away when suddenly the chisel of her jackhammer popped through the rubble at her feet and the ground gave way and she fell six feet, landing clumsily in a dark horizontal tunnel.
THE 5 GREATEST WARRIORS MATTHEW REILLY 2010
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Jack then gently pulled the skeleton of Genghis Khan off its slab, to reveal something beneath it: a round pipelike shaft that appeared to delve into the floor beneath the slab.
THE 5 GREATEST WARRIORS MATTHEW REILLY 2010
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