oblong

Whatever combination of instrumentation and samples the trio is working with and whatever oblong shape their compositions assume, you can always hear structure.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 9, 2026

The oblong ugly vegetable with lizard-like ridges is dark green, holding secrets, grows on thin vines.

From Salon ● May 9, 2026

Built on an oblong lot overlooking Studio City, the four-bedroom home was conceived by Soriano as an all-aluminium structure for Albert Grossman, an aluminium manufacturer and contractor.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 11, 2025

The most famous visual landmark associated with Singapore is probably the Marina Bay Sands, with Moshe Safdie’s oblong, swimmable rooftop straddling three buildings.

From Slate ● Mar. 28, 2025

If you stood in a two-dimensional universe you would only be perceived at the point of intersection, you’d be perceived as two oblong discs, two two-dimensional universes, seven-dimensional ones.

From "Cat's Eye" by Margaret Atwood

We watch De Jaen fiddle — connecting and disconnecting wires, periodically tilting the glass oblongs to see whether anything happens.

From Seattle Times ● Jan. 26, 2024

Most of Engida’s canvases are crowded with women in domestic scenes, their faces rendered in simple black lines, except for the bright red oblongs that often represent lips.

From Washington Post ● Oct. 14, 2020

“My sense of proportion tells me that oblongs are more attractive than squares, just as…a greyhound is more graceful than an English bulldog,” Mr. Earl wrote in a 1954 essay in the Saturday Evening Post.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 25, 2018

The inserts are oblongs of red and yellow, their shades becoming lighter as they rise.

From New York Times ● Jun. 30, 2015

That is the landscape I focus on, a field of oblongs, gently undulating where the earth beneath has buckled, from decade after decade of winter frost.

From "The Handmaid's Tale" by Margaret Atwood