cone-shaped
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A video from 2015 shows how, in Ojibwe tradition, dancers provide healing through the rhythmic music created, with every step they take, by the numerous cone-shaped bells that adorn their jingle-dresses.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 15, 2026
The cone-shaped system collects sunlight with a Fresnel lens approximately the size of a household window and channels that light into an optical fiber about as wide as a human hair.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 8, 2026
The Apollo vessels were cone-shaped to maximize stability as the craft sped back to Earth through the atmosphere.
From Barron's ● Apr. 4, 2026
At 9:30 a.m at the Original Los Angeles Flower Market, his arms were full of cone-shaped paper bundles, and he was making a final purchase of greenery to finish off his distinctive display.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 20, 2024
There was also a strange, cone-shaped, extremely fine mesh net—a foot across at the mouth and tapering to a point, and perhaps eight feet long—that made no sense to David at all.
From "The Voyage Of The Frog" by Gary Paulsen
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