At their best, public places can celebrate community by giving it a unique and recognizable shape.

I wanted to make sure that no one who might know - those like you, Harlingen - would ever see the body in recognizable shape.

Ramsey was half-lost in thought, trying to put pieces into a recognizable shape.

But people like to see horses out here, and not just for the recognizable shapes and sizes.

No longer was any shape recognizable, not a feature, nor a gesture.

A constellation is a group of stars, usually in a recognizable shape or pattern.

"Case had only been here a short time then; he hadn't yet altered things completely out of recognizable shape."

Above that one recognizable shape the ground was a featureless expanse of white.

Slowly it took the shape of a unicorn, transparent but recognizable.

"Yes," he said, as the figures jumped into recognizable shapes before him.