| We were holed up in an ovenlike room for three and a half hours. |
| It was a jagged wasteland of ovenlike heat, frantic mosquitoes, and unfordable, unsanitary rivers. |
| The massive bricks and low arches of this hall make it dungeonlike, even ovenlike. |
| In their ovenlike sheds, intent on their hazardous work, paying no mind to tourists angling for shots, they embody the much-told story of Africa as a culture of recycling. |
| And these buildings, too, were comfortable on even the most ovenlike of days. |
