funnel-shaped
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But it was Dante’s funnel-shaped map of a kingdom of torments, with its nine concentric rings, that popularized the notion of circles of Hell.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 11, 2026
Near a planet's poles, however, there are funnel-shaped openings known as "magnetospheric cusps."
From Science Daily ● Aug. 10, 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
The front yard was mostly dead grass; the driveway was cracked and broken from runoff whenever it rained; and the funnel-shaped backyard was overwhelmed by a rotting wood pergola.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 15, 2024
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
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