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His body was dark, strong, and his hair seemed patterned, fanning out delicately over his chest and narrowing into a funnel-shape as it went down to his groin.
The Position Meg Wolitzer 2005
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While giving out the high notes the Orang thrusts out his lips into a funnel-shape; but in uttering the low notes he holds his mouth wide open, and at the same time the great throat bag, or laryngeal sac, becomes distended.
A Book of Natural History Young Folks' Library Volume XIV. Various 1891
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On the other hand, there are certain localities which expose a funnel-shape opening to the sea; into these the great tidal wave rushes, and as it passes onwards towards the narrow part, the waters become piled up so as to produce tidal phenomena of abnormal proportions.
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Someone had a good idea that maybe we needed a funnel-shape to direct the sound into the mic.
MAKE Magazine Keith Hammond 2010
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GARETH PUGH A leather jacket with funnel-shape folds over slim wool trousers.
NYT > Home Page By CATHY HORYN 2010
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This will fill any voids between the imperfect china and the more perfect metal funnel-shape that gets called a drain-piece.
The Berkeley Daily Planet, The East Bay's Independent Newspaper 2009
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This will fill any voids between the imperfect china and the more perfect metal funnel-shape that gets called a drain-piece.
The Berkeley Daily Planet, The East Bay's Independent Newspaper 2009
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