funnel-shaped

Example Sentences

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But the phantom inferno keeps breaking out, she said, and recently a long, funnel-shaped reflection in her window prompted another false warning: “Tornado sighted.”

From The Wall Street Journal • May 5, 2026

A tornado typically has the form of a twisting funnel-shaped cloud between the cloud base and the ground.

From BBC • Jan. 23, 2025

He steered wide of a funnel-shaped chute — hazardous terrain, its surface sliced up from recent snowmobile traffic — and worked his way higher.

From Seattle Times • Feb. 2, 2024

Also called Devil's tooth, Hydnellum peckii starts out as a blobby, funnel-shaped mushroom with pinkish white caps that weep a red, blood-colored fluid.

From Salon • Apr. 30, 2023

It was pocked all over with little funnel-shaped snares, where the ant lions lay buried at the bottom, waiting for some poor insect to stumble into the trap and get devoured.

From "The Poisonwood Bible" by Barbara Kingsolver