Sample Sentences for
oblong
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    A prayer rug showing a slightly oblong Mecca was nailed to one of the walls.†  (source)
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    He looked suddenly rail-thin, with a large oblong head and limp black hair.†  (source)
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    We bumped along past an oblong pond fifty yards across, ringed all around with tall cattails.†  (source)
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    We kept walking until we reached one of the oblong sand bunkers of the golf course.†  (source)
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    This time we had all had a good sleep, for the grey of the coming dawn was making the windows into sharp oblongs, and the gas flame was like a speck rather than a disc of light.†  (source)
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    AKARSO: a plant native to Sikun (of 70 Ophiuchi A) characterized by almost oblong leaves.†  (source)
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    Instead of the trim, geometrically laid-out cantonments and the larger oblongs of the hangars, nothing was visible but an opaque mist veiling an immense, sun-brown desolation.†  (source)
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    He stops, looks up at this window, and I can see the white oblong of his face.†  (source)
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    Sunlight measured itself out in regular oblongs on the shabby, but soft red carpets, and a whiff of fresh-cut grass sweetened the air.†  (source)
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    She walked to the small oblong of glass in the middle door and looked inside.†  (source)
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    The light upon the railway puzzled me at first; there were a black heap and a vivid glare, and to the right of that a row of yellow oblongs.†  (source)
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    There was a flat, oblong case in the white envelope, the kind of case you get when you buy a watch.†  (source)
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    Presently two oblongs of yellow light appeared through the trees, and the square tower of a church loomed through the gloaming.†  (source)
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