oblong
Example Sentences
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The oblong ugly vegetable with lizard-like ridges is dark green, holding secrets, grows on thin vines.
From Salon • May 9, 2026
But he didn’t quit the project, and future designs were full of oblong shapes, zig-zagging roofs and slanted walls, designs that were playful but also a nonsensical view of reality.
From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 21, 2026
Nothing about Kansei Matsuzawa’s upbringing in Japan had prepared him to kick an oblong ball through upright goalposts in Hawaii.
From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 19, 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
When Ashoke arrives, Patty is taking Ashima’s blood pressure, and Ashima is reclining against a pile of pillows, the child wrapped like an oblong white parcel in her arms.
From "The Namesake" by Jhumpa Lahiri
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