glasslike

Example Sentences

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Outside her window, farmland rolls into rocky coastline, hemming a glasslike bay striped with turquoise and populated by showboating dolphins.

From BBC • Apr. 26, 2025

The technology exists to use nuclear waste as fuel, and to turn waste into a glasslike substance similar to obsidian that can then be stored deep in the earth.

From Seattle Times • Sep. 7, 2023

That creates a beautiful glasslike frame around the protein of interest, allowing an unhindered view of every structural detail.

From Salon • Dec. 13, 2022

Tim Tate’s “Justinian’s Oculus,” made of glasslike plastic, sets an ornate frame around a tightly packed cluster of 3-D faces and skulls, evoking the victims of a plague that wracked the Byzantine Empire.

From Washington Post • Aug. 11, 2021

The woman was wearing a nose ring, a tiny glasslike thing that glittered as she moved her head this way and that.

From "Americanah" by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie