Oblong

//ˈɒblɒŋ//

"Oblong" in a Sentence (21 examples)

I lost this oblong Japanese brazier in an earthquake.

You could see the oblong shape of the rat as it passed down the snake's gullet.

Phobos has an oblong shape with an average diameter of about 14 miles (22 kilometers).

It was an oblong shape.

Early blurry images showed an oblong shaped object nearly 35 kilometers long and more than 14 kilometers wide.

It was oblong.

The hall was constructed in the manner of a Roman atrium, and from the oblong pool of turgid water in the centre a troop of fat and otiose rats fled weakly squealing at my approach.

If you peep into a Samoan house at midnight, you will see five or six low oblong tents pitched (or rather strung up) here and there throughout the house.

Most of the buildings were five or six stories in height, and their curtained, oblong windows and the bright, tawdry shops at their base had an oddly lifeless aspect, in spite of the sounds and animations which occurred within and around them.

My head is oblong.

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The room was quite dark. The oblong window showed the night sky pricked here and there with stars.

Plant upright spreading hardy, vigorous and productive; berry, oblong, round, medium size, sweet but rather ideipid.

Of the smaller oblong formats, none is specifically designated for music.

Mass cycles and motets had never been presented in small oblong format, so far as we can tell.

Jessamy looked round her in a puzzled way, but there was nothing to see but the pale oblong of what looked like a star-pierced sky behind the bars of the nursery window.

[…]; by John Denmans hom lot on the north sid the front by a salt crek the reare to the comon which hom lot with all the upland oblonging to it conteining to about fourtie acers more or lese with about one acer & half of salt medo liing before the said house[…]

That the Gilbert tract, according to his opinion and the law, ought to have been oblonged up the creek. That by oblonging it across the creek, it afforded Elijah Robertson, who superintended the surveying, an opportunity of laying a warrant not located there, for himself, and thereby takes 5,000 acres.

A. Why, by dropping them off of cars or dropping them off of trucks or some way it would oblong them .

His silhouette: broad shoulders, big legs, a square face oblonged by a crest of thick hair and almost lantern jaw.

And there were suddenly berries where there had been none before, bright red and bright blue, all with a careless water drop oblonging their form.

[…] the venue (a private country club nestled in the woods outside Cincinnati, with a dance hall whose ceilings went straight to the moon), to the ice cubes (truly cubed, not oblonged or crushed, and king-sized cubes for the bourbon rocks),

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