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Six example sentences with conical, each labelled with its topic.
Each tower ends in a conical roof of gray slate, narrowing to a point that carries a small iron weathervane.
Architecture
Pour the stock through a conical strainer so the liquid gathers at the tip and drips into one narrow stream.
Cooking
The volcano wears a conical shape because each eruption drops ash evenly around the vent, building outward from a single summit.
Science
A horn's conical tube widens steadily from mouthpiece to bell, giving it a warmer tone than a trumpet's straight bore.
Music
The sculptor stacked conical forms in polished steel, each tip balanced on the base of the one above it.
Art
The valley is dotted with conical rock towers, and villagers carved rooms into several of them centuries ago.
Travel
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