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ring-shaped

adj. shaped like a ring [syn: annular, annulate, annulated, circinate, circular, ringed, doughnut-shaped]

Usage examples of "ring-shaped".

The skies had cleared, and he could see plainly that it was a ring-shaped form.

It looks like there’s one at the centerpoint of the large ring-shaped object hanging in the sky where the Moon should be.

The walls of the office were transparent from within, and Hannas, from the huge swivel chair within his ring-shaped desk, could look at will down any one of the halls.

Clemantine had looked on helplessly as the gigantic, ring-shaped ships bore down on the planet.

He reset the model, then added to it a solid, ring-shaped object, two kilometers in diameter.

Its apartment complexes were as cramped as any low-rent city skyscraper, only these were ring-shaped, occupying the lower fifty meters of each circular endwall.

It blasted great chunks of the planet's crust Perhaps some of that escaped completely, too, but all that did not reach the speed of escape fell back down in time and splashed great ring-shaped craters in the land.

The master gunners pulled the ring-shaped blockers out of the noses of the shells, arming the fuses.

It was ring-shaped, and I decided not to remark upon it since neither of the others seemed to take note of it.

As ring-shaped waves rush away from a stone dropped into a pond of still water, so the ocean reacted to the dreadful murmur of the island.