What is "bowl-shaped"

Usage examples of "bowl-shaped".

The child felt the vibrations of the dull thud of spear butts pounding the ground and jumped back when the newest hunter leaped to the area in front of the flames just as Dorv beat a sharp tattoo in rhythmic counterpoint on a large wooden bowl-shaped instrument, turned face down against a log.

The first beat of the smooth hard stick on the hollowed-out wooden bowl-shaped drum resounded like a sharp crack of thunder in the expectant hush.

Two stone lamps, with bowl-shaped wells filled with fat in which wicks of dried moss burned, lit one side.

The large pile of snow was made up of many bowl-shaped bumps and from her viewpoint suggested the contours of a face.

The Captain selected a little bowl-shaped depression in the hills, some thousand feet long and half as broad, in which to establish a permanent camp.

Far up in the northern mountains of the Forgotten Realms the crystal shard, the ultimate perversion, settled into the snow of a bowl-shaped dell.

Eldulac had dropped him into a bowl-shaped, snow-filled depression, and with his fingers numbed beyond feeling, he had no chance of climbing out.

Ivar, a young man with a bowl-shaped mop of yellow hair, pointed to a gap in the curtain wall.

Several shallow, bowl-shaped stone lamps had been placed on the floor at intervals along the dark corridor, casting a light that seemed amazingly bright in the darkness within the cave.

Even so it was a surprise when he and Zahag stepped out onto a vast, bowl-shaped plain before he was aware of it.

This ground was hard and bony, unlike the soft roosts he was used to, but by squirming he managed to make himself a bowl-shaped hollow.

Then there were the passenger transports - including several shallow bowl-shaped Ithorian herd ships - crammed with displaced beings from conquered or immolated worlds, also in search of some planet to call home, even temporarily.