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Sentence Examples The door ran from the roof to the dirt floor, and the oblong of light let in showed it was night time. The remote is a black oblong with buttons up and down its front like the brass on a soldier's uniform. An oblong of pebbles and short posts anchored by a gnarled, leafless tree creates the isolated beach where Braidie retreats in contemplation. The brown cat shark is oviparous, with eggs deposited in transparent oblong cases slightly over 5 cm long. It is a luxuriant plant with opposite oblong and obvoate leaves which abruptly acuminate apically and are obtuse to basally rounded. Malkeius walked into the briefing room, a oblong table adorned the center of the chamber with a single holographic projector. Formations on sloping ground tended to stretch into oblong shapes with the longest dimension pointing downhill. When the moon tugs on the Earth's surface, it stretches the planet into a slightly oblong shape. He entered the conference room and sat at the old oblong table as the minutes ticked by. When it grows on mud in low-water conditions, the leaves of water starwort are oblong. Dusting a covered board with flour, she split the dough in half, shaped each section into oblong lengths and placed them in greased loaf pans. Square pockets provided the chance to create two uniform fields of oblong shape. The oblong LCD panel perched on top of the dash displays the sat nav instructions. The lights on the object gave it an oblong appearance, sort of like a domino with the corners rounded off. Rockmover wrasses, also called dragon wrasses, have an oblong compressed body and a wedge-shaped head. It was shaped a bit oblong, like an ellipse with a very large major axis, almost to the point of not being a cigar. Until recent times, scriptures were inscribed on these flat, oblong leaves using a stylus and lampblack. No one was seated at the oblong table, apart from Louis leaning nonchalantly at one end talking to Paul, who was seated to the left side of him. The leaves are cuneate oblong or linear oblong and either sessile or amplexicaul. He has long thin sideburns and was wearing silver oblong small-frame silver glasses. Show More Sentences Then we showed them how to roll it into an oblong shape and flatten it if they wanted their artwork to resemble the oval of a human face. The size and slightly oblong shape certainly help with the reproductions, though the pictures seem to be a little bit misty in texture. In the center of the room was a large, oblong table with a chair at the head for the king. The group, including Jude, Texas, Katie, the President, and two other men Jude didn't recognize, all sat down around the oblong table. The stage resembled an oblong squash court with seating perched precariously on scaffolding above the set. Huts are either circular or oblong with wattle walls, plastered outside and inside with mud, and roofed with thatch. Each floor has an oblong chamber with a small room and spiral stair in the wall thickness at the seaward end. The convent cloister of the Minorite monastery, originating from the year about 1500, is of an oblong ground plan. They sat down in an oblong table for ten, sharing seats with four other schoolmates. If oblong holes in the leaves are detected and the pest is not found, the damage is probably from billbugs. Roll out the pastry and cut four oblong pieces large enough to enclose the steaks. The chocolate cup has a series of oblong and faceted oval panels decorated with damask roses on a white background. The leaves are ovate to oblong, 5 to 8 centimeters long, and pointed at both ends, with subentire or undulately toothed or lobed margins. Cracks in sweet cherry fruits are shallow or deep oblong wounds in the fruit flesh. Beneath it is a navigator button, though this time it's oblong rather than round. On the left side of the screen are two oblong buttons that become the soft keys when you turn the handset to landscape view. The fruit is a small oblong capsule with two valves containing many small seeds. The woman glanced into the rear-view mirror and adjusted it, catching sight of her spectacled brown eyes encased within its oblong frame. The female lays large black or brown oblong egg cases that are covered with hairy tuffs that help anchor them in place. The California halibut is a flatfish with an oblong, compressed body and a large, powerful, broad tail. Show More Sentences Later in the season, when the flat-topped flower clusters form oblong seeds, I collect them to use like celery seed. An artist who saw a square as an oblong, logically would paint that oblong as a square. At first glance his face looked like a long oblong, but upon closer inspection, you found him to be a quite handsome looking young man. Over the chiton, if you could afford it, a woollen cloak was worn, made from an oblong piece of cloth, usually simply draped around the body, sometimes pinned on one side. In some instances, flat clay slabs have been found with the oblong symbols for numbers impressed on their surfaces together with many impressions of cylinder seals. Curving appendages attached to oblong shapes or to punctured spheres in some of the works may allude to other life-forms such as insects or invertebrates. His wife, Louise, had the idea of packing them in the folding, oblong boxes, or ballotins, which are still used to package and protect these gourmet delights. Seeds ovoid or oblong, shiny, with apically a 2-fid to multifid caruncle. An oblong bomb-hole marked the back wall, and windows were empty of their glass. Moonlight lay across the floor in a precise oblong of light. It was awkwardly wrapped and had a strange, oblong shape to it. They may be square in shape like ravioli or in half-moon or oblong shapes. The scheme of a three-winged portico recalls the many coastal porticoed villas that appear on small square or horizontal oblong panels in Roman wall painting. A table of oblong shape stood midway between the drawing-room walls. This was a narrow oblong table with a single broad hinged flap. I stuck a fork into one oblong piece and put it in my mouth. Belgians had oblong heads because Belgian mothers wrapped their infants in swaddling clothes and slept them as much as possible on their sides and temples. She walked to the oblong metal coffee-table and picked up a silver flask. This dish may be a little tired, but it was beautifully presented on an oblong plate and delivered all the punchiness of flavours needed for a good starter. The room was quite dark. The oblong window showed the night sky pricked here and there with stars. Show More Sentences Fruits deflexed, dehiscent, oblong, subterete or tetragonal in cross section, ovoid in one species, coriaceous. The pseudobulb has a smooth surface with lengthwise grooves, and can have different shapes, often conical or oblong. Fruits 7-9 mm long, declined, persistent, indehiscent, ovoid or shortly oblong, compressed but turgid. The leaves are arranged in opposite pairs, from oblong to lanceolate, often downy, and with a serrated margin. The two valves are roughly triangular or bluntly oblong with rounded umbones near the anterior end. Each shell contains two pecans, usually plump and oblong in shape, although some varieties are round or pointed. The second form was an ordinary cross carved onto a round or oblong silver plate. Cucumiform. Cucumber-shaped. Whose longitudinal section is oblong, and transverse circular. Eremophila seeds vary in shape from oblong to obovoid and are located in locules within the fruit. In shape, seeds are oblong to ovoid and are narrower at the micropylar end where the funiculus was terminally attached. According to the MONARCH report, the three species most likely to disappear from Wales by 2080 are common scoter, black grouse, and a fern called oblong woodsia. The Bulgarian state standard will soon be implemented for meat products like minced meat, grilled oblong rissole, meatball, sausage and some boiled and smoked meat products. Central leaf lanceolate to oblong, with an acute apex at ca. Here his displays began to sprawl sideways to form wide oblong pictures, unusual in the north, although Heda sometimes painted taller vertical compositions. They intend to honour the occasion with a festival of colour and sound, wearing traditional costumes and banging oblong drums, tablas, in honour of his visit. They are characterized by hyaline, ellipsoid, oblong, reniform, allantoid to suballantoid conidia borne on a single locus on monophialidic conidiogenous cells. These are oblong bars of densely compressed, dried, and shredded peat. 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. It is distinguished by biconvex leaf scars on the rhizomes, and deeply cordare, ovate to oblong leaves with a prominent midrib and pinnate venation. Fruits indehiscent, single-seeded, including siliques and silicles ranging from orbicular to oblong, obovate, ovate, or obpyriform, with septum lacking. Examples from Classical Literature And a Rhomboides is so opposed to an oblong, as a Rhombus is to a quadrate. Here, in short, is the record of an oblong 'insula' in the Roman town of Orange. The larger 'insulae', which lie west of the main north and south street, are oblong and measure about 150 x 100 yds. The amice, L. amictus, is the oblong piece of linen which envelops the neck of a vested priest. The ilio-ischiatic fenestra is a large oblong opening behind the acetabulum between the ilium and the ischium. In the genus Malva, the involucrum consists of three leaflets, which in the common Mallow are oblong. Roll thin, cut in oblong cakes with a jagging iron, or in any way to suit the fancy. The frustules are curved or arcuate in the side view, oblong and narrowed at the ends in the front view. Grain is oblong, obtusely trigonous, or concavo-convex, red-brown and rugulose on the ventral side. We are at the western extremity of an oblong valley, looking up it lengthwise. The meshes are partly simple, oblong, partly lobed or composed of two to four confluent meshes. Grain is sub-globose, oblong or trigonous, closely invested by the glume and its palea. The spores in this species are exceedingly minute, oblong, and not contained in asci. The ball-room was a long, oblong sala with a banquette running all round it. Segments ovate or oblong, obtuse, crenate, the teeth or margin nearly always reflexed. In the example selected for our plate the pinnules are oblong, obtuse and crenulate, or at most, crenately-toothed. The two smal sides of the oblong chest cut in the upper part in pointed shape, have two glassed frames, and form a two-sided roof. Lors, watching the screen, saw the oblong shape of the mother ship blurp into view and called out its position to his friend. The deeply stained oblong nuclei indicate the nerve corpuscles within the neurilemma. Utricle bursting irregularly, enclosing an oblong longitudinally ribbed seed. Show More Sentences Its leaves are hairy, bipinnate, with lobed and toothed, ovate or oblong leaflets. The first glume is small, oblong-ovate or oblong, 1-nerved with a scabrid keel. It is of oblong shape, and is placed on a raised platform which is ascended by steps. On it you lay your shelter-half and fold it till it too is an oblong, smaller than the poncho. Sporangia globose or ovoid to ellipsoid or oblong, erect or sometimes inclined or even nodding. The osselet is oval or oblong, some provided with a slightly salient point. But an oblong bit of iron, ycleped a bolt, was passed across the door on the inside, and prevented her benign intentions. The like is to be said of the oblong of ay, and yi, by drawing the perpendicular sl, as afore. The asci appear first at the base of the paraphyses, under the form of oblong cells, filled with colourless protoplasm. The pointal afterwards becomes a flat oblong pod, containing a few kidney-shaped seeds. On his abdomen were two pink, oblong spots of the same tint and shape as the pinkened tips of the false petals. Children will like the funny, brightly colored pictures in this large oblong book, and will be fascinated by the golliwogg. Frustules oblong or quadrate, adnate in filaments, attached by alternate angles and finally separating. At this part the shaft is greatly flattened and the cross section becomes oblong or rhombic. Metacarpal I oblong, or rather conical, with a lateral enlargement, and situated in line with the distal row of carpals. The first glume is chartaceous, equal in length to the second, oblong or lanceolate. The second glume is chartaceous, minute, oblong, 1-nerved immersed in the cavity of the first glume and closing the opening. The Mirmillo was a gladiator opposed to a retiarius, protecting himself by his oblong shield against the net of the latter. Drupe ovoid or oblong, with a bony and grooved or striate 1-celled and 1-seeded stone. Every chinampa forms an oblong square about three hundred feet in length, and eighteen or nineteen feet broad. Show More Sentences The tree is valued for its fruit, which is oblong to pyriform in shape, 2-5 in. One was a large one and oblong in shape, the other of good size but round. The oblong white ceiling, with this scarlet blot in the midst, had the appearance of a gigantic ace of hearts. There lay upon the surface of the water a large oblong, Black Mass. In 1818 Captain Ross completed the circumnavigation of this oblong bay. The clavichord was always built in oblong shape, like our square piano. In the center of the table, surrounded by the clutter, sat an oblong box. Her contour was rather square than oblong, and she was very heavy. These convoluted pieces are formed into oblong bundles of 20 or 30 lbs. The seeds are larger than those of crimson clover and are oblong in shape. The granadilla is about the size of an apple, but rather oblong. Its leaves are large, flat, oval or oblong, with serrate edges. On the sled, securely lashed, was a long and narrow oblong box. Their large, oblong faces possess sharply angled features and slitted, upturned eyes with extended wavy eyebrow tendrils. The third glume is hyaline, thin, oblong, obtuse and nerveless. The second glume is as long as the first hyaline, oblong and obtuse. The first glume is oblong, obtuse, winged on one side only, 5-nerved. Grain is narrow, trigonous, oblong, translucent and shining. We had paused, on the path from the gate, by a low, oblong, tablelike tomb. The first two glumes are unequal, oblong or lanceolate, 1-nerved. Show More Sentences The oblong room at the right of the tablinum was once square, as. The tree has oblong or obovate-elliptic coriaceous leaves and large red flowers. The Narwhale has a very picturesque, leopard-like look, being of a milk-white ground color, dotted with round and oblong spots of black. At that moment I saw the reflection of the visage and features quite distinctly in the dark oblong glass. Presently the elderly woman appeared, pushing before her an oblong table mounted on wheels, like a barrow. Suddenly light broke at each side of the saloon, through two oblong openings. The difference was that it was oblong instead of half round. It consists of a nave of four bays with two oblong towers to the west. The room, an oblong, was furnished after a fashion of long ago. The leaves are obovate, oblong, glabrous above and shiny beneath. Laciniata, leaves oblong and pinnatifid, with the lobes acute. The calyx is of six oblong sharpish leaves, reflexed and permanent. Tail flat, oblong, obtuse, with a reticulated naked surface. The form of the enclosure was an oblong square, save that the corners were considerably rounded off, in order to afford more convenience for the spectators. The pond, oblong in shape, had a width so scant compared to its length that, with its ends out of view, it might have been taken for a scant river. And the poet rummaged in his pocket, and drew out a piece of brass, oblong, quadrangular, about a line in thickness, and an inch and a half in length. When they had circumvented the laurel hedge, they came out on a sort of terrace of turf, which fell by one green step to an oblong lawn like a bowling green. Wyatt stood up in the stern-sheets, and coolly demanded of Captain Hardy that the boat should be put back for the purpose of taking in his oblong box! A marker was a flat, oblong composition chip worth, perhaps, a cent. Find more words! 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