He wore a bulbous red helmet with a Royal Air Force roundel sticker and he buried himself, ripping time away from competitors like Germany's Tony Martin, Fabian Cancellara of Switzerland, and his own Team GB colleague, Chris Froome.

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She wears a bulbous orange nylon protective garment and a clear plastic helmet.

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Ira had a bulbous nose, and he seemed to be always close to Judith.

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Nor does it have a small militia of roving guards whose shoulder patches depict a bulbous-headed alien.

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An orange bulbous arm lifted a rubber chicken, and two yellow cameras quickly captured the chicken's dimensions and sent them to the computer.

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But I think two face masks and four hats, or anything else that makes a person look like a bulbous mushroom, are perfectly acceptable.

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His face has the bulbous charm of a potato carving.

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Toni Collette plays Muriel, the shyest member of a bored and bulbous family living in Porpoise Spit.

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The basic urn shape relates to that of an Ancient Greek amphora bulbous, with shoulders and a flaring neck, double-handled, and characteristically raised on a foot.

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Unusually they are powered by a single AAA battery, that you sneak into the slightly bulbous section in the middle of the band.

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