mastlike

But that mastlike growth on top made her wonder.

But the three parts are attached by a triangular pattern of wires that has a mastlike appearance.

But placing a mastlike pole on a kayak would destroy its navigability.

Closer it came, and closer, and the slender mastlike thing began to extend from its underside, toward the cove.

A slender, truss-braced, mastlike tower rose skyward.

There is a streamlined, mastlike pylon atop a bowed facade, flanked by two portholes, and a smokestack in the rear.

The mastlike pole shuddered and creaked, and for a breathless instant Taran feared all his work would come tumbling about his ears.

Timur's Volga was racing over the empty night roads among copses and birch groves, among firs and pines with their reddish mastlike trunks.

You notice the architecture of the place as a whole: the dark gray outcroppings of schist, for example, as it courses through the woods; the tall mastlike trunks of poplars and oaks; how the land rolls.

Outside stood Tesla, properly attired in cutaway coat and black derby hat for the auspicious occasion, his slender six-foot-two figure bearing signs of close relationship to the mastlike rod sticking out of his bizarre barnlike structure.

Mr. Calatrava, who enjoys talking about his artistic intentions, said he wanted to separate the gallery space from the building's "icons," meaning the pedestrian suspension bridge leading to the entrance, the high reception hall and the two mastlike spires pointing over the lake.

The show had its share of spectacle, starting with two segments featuring the singers flying over the crowd on wires; one in which they climbed mastlike poles, and another that lifted Kevin Richardson, the member who solos the least, aloft on a platform as he played a keyboard resembling a baby grand.