oblong

Example Sentences

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Another image showed him sporting an oblong bandage over the mark.

From Washington Post

At the end of the day, they’re all squarish or oblong hunks of plastic or metal.

From The Verge

Several of Max-Karl Winkler’s subjects are enclosed within circles, and in his “The Checkered Scarf,” a woman’s torso, topknot and titular scarf all protrude from the oblong that contains her head.

From Washington Post

Williams had these chairs, sofas and benches stacked on view in the museum’s atrium in two oblong piles.

From New York Times

READING, England — The metal stairway creaks and groans underfoot on the way to cell C. 3.3, a bare oblong room of painted brick behind a large and forbidding prison door.

From New York Times