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Recent Examples of teardropThese teardrops earrings are sculptural statements, and an excellent addition to any collection heavy on hoops and huggies.—Malia Griggs, Glamour, 12 Sep. 2024 For the limited prototype launch, the teardrop bottle is housed in an elegant bamboo cage, which, despite the plant’s superb strength-to-weight ratio, will no doubt impact any transport emission savings.—Chris Haslam, WIRED, 13 Sep. 2024 Location pins resembling orange teardrops denote the thirty-three places that promise at least twenty-five venders—Smock Farm, Traders Park, Covered Bridge Antique Mall, Rustic Hill Brew Thru.—Paige Williams, The New Yorker, 9 Sep. 2024 The boy switches to identifying animal tracks: deer prints look similar to those of the feral hog, but the shape of a deer hoof in the mud is closer to a teardrop.—Beth Bachmann, The New Yorker, 25 July 2024 See all Example Sentences for teardrop
There are balling-up-the-blanket moments as stampeding scarabs devour treasure hunters or when the skeletal and not-yet-human Imhotep (Arnold Vosloo) attacks victims with the help of that dastardly Beni (Kevin J. O’Connor), but the violence is largely unseen.
Dustin Nelson,
Vulture,
25 Oct. 2024
The necklace was designed as a graduated fringe, according to Hancocks London, and features motifs such as a winged enamel scarab, a large faience scarab and a carved carnelian shell.
By dewdrops flare beauty in the morning Until an army of squash bugs land
And eat, then drag their bellies
From the carnage—
Field mice chew their way
Into the house.
Joy Harjo,
The New Yorker,
26 Feb. 2024
There are more than 100 varieties of shrubs like ceanothus, also known as California lilac with its luscious clusters of blue, purple or white blooms, and red-limbed manzanita, which can grow as a groundcover, tall bush or small tree with sweet clusters of dewdrop-type flowers.
Jeanette Marantos,
Los Angeles Times,
15 Apr. 2021
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