What is "cup-shaped"

Usage examples of "cup-shaped".

I followed him along a path that cut inland for a mile, then angled back toward the river, rejoining it at a point where the banks widened and lifted into steep cliffs of pocked grayish black limestone, forming a cup-shaped gorge that shadowed the green water, and the perfumey heat of the jungle gave way to a profound freshness, like the smell of spring water in an old well.

Four spandrels from the corners ran up to join a sharp, cup-shaped roof.

Now she saw that the surface was coated with buildings: they were all about the scale of the Eighth Room, but they came in every shape Erwal could imagine—domes, cubes, pyramids, cylinders and spires—and there were bowls and cup-shaped amphitheaters lying open to the sky.

Now she saw that the surface was coated with buildings: they were all about the scale of the Eighth Room, but they came in every shape Erwal could imagine - domes, cubes, pyramids, cylinders and spires - and there were bowls and cup-shaped amphitheatres lying open to the sky.

Water presented itself in the cephalotes, a species of cup-shaped flower, filled with refreshing liquid, which hung from the branches of coralliform-shaped bushes.

She could see three evenly spaced cup-shaped depressions, each with a tiny central hole, in the exposed part of the main bit, and below these concavities other holes, and below these holes a triangular articulation of delicate, roughly rectangular plates, and along the inner edge of each plate a row of something whiter than the rest of it.

Lightweight plastic, cup-shaped, a torn foil closure flapping like an air brake.

Plates were often flat pelvic or shoulder bones from bison or deer, cups and bowls might be tightly woven, waterproof small baskets or sometimes the cup-shaped frontal bones of deer with the antlers removed.