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  • adjective round like a wheel

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Examples

  • Biological evolution has not produced wheel-like organs that exhibit a continuously looping movement while remaining in contact with the ground.

    How a snail moves - Part 2 AYDIN 2009

  • I caught myself looking down at this mouse a few times to make sure I wasn't using a real scroll wheel because the sound effects and feel of the scroll strip are so wheel-like.

    Three Funky Mice Made for Laptops Katherine Boehret 2011

  • Biological evolution has not produced wheel-like organs that exhibit a continuously looping movement while remaining in contact with the ground.

    Archive 2009-08-01 AYDIN 2009

  • Elsewhere, Dr. Mary Malone is interacting with the mulefa, a bizarre race of creatures with wheel-like seedpods for feet and their own intricate language, and she discovers by means of building a telescope something quite peculiar about Dust.

    Rain’s a Pain, Snow’s for Hoes pabba 2009

  • Her signature ruff, a sort of wheel-like, pleated, staunch white collar sometimes bordered in an intricate lace projects epically from her neckline in most of the paintings and film depictions of her to date.

    The Style Checklist Lloyd Boston 2010

  • Her signature ruff, a sort of wheel-like, pleated, staunch white collar sometimes bordered in an intricate lace projects epically from her neckline in most of the paintings and film depictions of her to date.

    The Style Checklist Lloyd Boston 2010

  • Taking a step away from the computer, phone, and TV after a certain time of day can help us to stop chasing useless thoughts around in a hamster wheel-like fashion.

    Tara Stiles: Sleep Tips: Bedtime Yoga (VIDEO) 2010

  • The horizontal wheel-like object near Scimitar and Mao, Jack saw, was a slave wheel that drove a conveyor belt that rose from the wide pit.

    THE 5 GREATEST WARRIORS MATTHEW REILLY 2010

  • Her signature ruff, a sort of wheel-like, pleated, staunch white collar sometimes bordered in an intricate lace projects epically from her neckline in most of the paintings and film depictions of her to date.

    The Style Checklist Lloyd Boston 2010

  • The horizontal wheel-like object near Scimitar and Mao, Jack saw, was a slave wheel that drove a conveyor belt that rose from the wide pit.

    THE 5 GREATEST WARRIORS MATTHEW REILLY 2010

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