womb-like

I couldn't stop marveling at the wild, womb-like lines of the staircase in the huge "main street" core of the ship.

Rick Steves: Getting To Know The Ship (It's A Ship...Not A Boat) Rick Steves 2011

Pining for the womb-like comfort of hotels, I made the (then) rash but (now) perfectly sensible decision to give up my flat, sell almost all of my possessions, pack the rest into a carry-on bag and jump on a plane to Manhattan for three months; the longest I could stay in the US without a visa.

Paul Carr: The Strip Diary, Day Ten: I Don't Understand Why the Whole World Doesn't Live in Hotels Paul Carr 2011

Elijah can be read as a return of the cowboy or the war hero, emerging from the womb-like city that crushes his individuality and venturing forth into the unspoiled wilderness of the stars.

Archive 2009-03-01 Erika Nelson 2009

Pining for the womb-like comfort of hotels, I made the (then) rash but (now) perfectly sensible decision to give up my flat, sell almost all of my possessions, pack the rest into a carry-on bag and jump on a plane to Manhattan for three months; the longest I could stay in the US without a visa.

Paul Carr: The Strip Diary, Day Ten: I Don't Understand Why the Whole World Doesn't Live in Hotels Paul Carr 2011

Elijah can be read as a return of the cowboy or the war hero, emerging from the womb-like city that crushes his individuality and venturing forth into the unspoiled wilderness of the stars.

Interplanetary Manifest Destiny Erika Nelson 2009

The mass of tissue, the womb-like thing that Spegg had created in the science lab, had slowly stopped pulsing and throbbing, contracted, and formed into a lifeless ball of muck, roughly the size of a softball.

Blog Fiction | Sci-Fi | Skymap | Station151 2010

Arp's painted-wood bas-relief "La Femme-amphore" (1929), in which a small figurative form, like a kernel, floats through the womb-like bowl of an amphora, speaks to Brancusi's curled-up ovoid "The Newborn (Version I)" (1920).

The Shape of Things Lance Esplund 2011

I can see that your room would feel warm and comforting and womb-like.

Promised Pictures « Tales from the Reading Room 2009

Sealed inside this womb-like, completely dark container, she tries to reassure herself that "this must seem only snug and homely, buoyant: no overtones of drowning, suggestions of creatures that rise from unlikely depths, hints of noise underneath the silence, eager."

Review of What Becomes by A.L. Kennedy 2010

Pining for the womb-like comfort of hotels, I made the (then) rash but (now) perfectly sensible decision to give up my flat, sell almost all of my possessions, pack the rest into a carry-on bag and jump on a plane to Manhattan for three months; the longest I could stay in the US without a visa.

Paul Carr: The Strip Diary, Day Ten: I Don't Understand Why the Whole World Doesn't Live in Hotels Paul Carr 2011