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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

  • 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

  • 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.

    Time and Tide A Romance of the Moon 1876

  • Someone had a good idea that maybe we needed a funnel-shape to direct the sound into the mic.

    MAKE Magazine Keith Hammond 2010

  • GARETH PUGH A leather jacket with funnel-shape folds over slim wool trousers.

    NYT > Home Page By CATHY HORYN 2010

  • 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

  • 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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