This vast area of southwest China, the size of France and Spain combined is famous for its clusters of conical hills, like giant upturned egg cartons separated by dry empty valleys.
Outside of this deep umbral shadow is a wider conical region where, if you're in it, the Sun is only partially blocked; you can still see some of the Sun past the Moon.
This is a moulded salad so I'm using my Charlotte mould, but you could use any shape mould: a conical shape, or even a funnel... if you work in an ill-equipped kitchen.
It is able to survive near-freezing temperatures due to dense hair that traps heat and its ability to use conical flowers, like the Arctic poppy, to magnify the sun's rays to warm itself up.
They reached the place where the hollies grew, which was in a conical pit, so that the tops of the trees were not much above the general level of the ground.
Based on the strength of Earth's gravity and the density and strength of rock, in principle, you could make a single conical mountain that stretched between New York and Chicago and soared over 45 km!
Bah! he said. So that animal is faster than the Abraham Lincoln. All right, we'll see if it can outrun our conical shells! Mate, man the gun in the bow!
It's a very long cylinder with conical ends. It noticeably takes the shape of a cigar, a shape already adopted in London for several projects of the same kind.