OBLONG in a Sentence
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13 example sentences for OBLONG, such as:
1. The despatch box, an immense oblong coffer, was placed behind the vehicle and formed a part of it.
2. At that moment I saw the reflection of the visage and features quite distinctly in the dark oblong glass.
3. These were all shaped like the three gardeners, oblong and flat, with their hands and feet at the corners.
4. The design of the house had a pleasing symmetry, its oblong shape being picked up in its elongated windows.
2. At that moment I saw the reflection of the visage and features quite distinctly in the dark oblong glass.
3. These were all shaped like the three gardeners, oblong and flat, with their hands and feet at the corners.
4. The design of the house had a pleasing symmetry, its oblong shape being picked up in its elongated windows.
Search Quotes from Classic Book Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen |
Meanings and Examples of OBLONG
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oblong
n. a plane figure that deviates from a square or circle due to elongation
a. deviating from a square or circle or sphere by being elongated in one direction
Classic Sentence:
1 The house loomed obscure and uninhabited; only an oblong gleam above the door spoke of provisional occupancy.
2 The Narwhale has a very picturesque, leopard-like look, being of a milk-white ground colour, dotted with round and oblong spots of black.
3 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.
4 At length Thomasin reached a hollow and began to discern through the rain a faint blotted radiance, which presently assumed the oblong form of an open door.
Return of the Native By Thomas Hardy
Context Highlight In BOOK 5: 8 Rain, Darkness, and Anxious Wanderers
Context Highlight In BOOK 5: 8 Rain, Darkness, and Anxious Wanderers
5 Stephen looked coldly on the oblong skull beneath him overgrown with tangled twine-coloured hair.
6 The oblong skull beneath did not turn to meet this shaft of thought and yet the shaft came back to its bowstring; for he saw in a moment the student's whey-pale face.
7 The despatch box, an immense oblong coffer, was placed behind the vehicle and formed a part of it.
8 At the same moment a little oblong packet, enveloped in blue paper, fell from one of the pockets of the great-coat.
9 At that moment I saw the reflection of the visage and features quite distinctly in the dark oblong glass.
10 The envelope was of paper as thick as bark; on the oblong yellow paper there was a huge monogram, and the letter smelt of agreeable scent.
11 After being severed from the whale, the white-horse is first cut into portable oblongs ere going to the mincer.
Example Sentence:
1 These were all shaped like the three gardeners, oblong and flat, with their hands and feet at the corners.
2 The design of the house had a pleasing symmetry, its oblong shape being picked up in its elongated windows.