1.   The dorsal arm plates are fan shaped with an acute proximal angle and separated.

2.   Ask him how much sight he has and he makes an eye shape with his thumb and forefinger, poking through the bottom with the tip of his pinky.

3.   A few leaf-shedding shrubs, such as densely growing privets, can be shaped with hedge trimmers like evergreens.

4.   Britten slows down the pulse a bit and allows each overlapping line to be shaped with character and vividly heard.

5.   Cookies looked as if they had been cut to shape with a ruler and an Exacto knife.

6.   Gershwin left a score that can be shaped with minimal effort into a compelling musical fabric.

7.   He uses an austere wood-paneled set shaped with velvet curtains and drapes that make for flexible and luxuriant tableaux.

8.   Housed in this music are generosity, elegance and unfettered freedom of spirit, all shaped with exquisite technique.

9.   In a sense this is true, but the finished product is shaped with a cunning sense of design.

10.   It happened for Barbara Bush, Nancy Reagan, even Rosalyn Carter, who shaped policy with her husband.