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an elongated shape — typically of a stretched circle that is longer than an oval, but occasionally used to describe a rectangle

First came ten soldiers carrying clubs; these were all shaped like the three gardeners, oblong and flat, with their hands and feet at the corners: next the ten courtiers; these were ornamented all over with diamonds, and walked two and two, as the soldiers did.
Lewis Carroll -- Alice's Adventures in Wonderland

oblong = an elongated shape — typically of a stretched circle that is longer than an oval, but occasionally used to describe a rectangle

A number of police officers jumped out of the car and unloaded coils of rope, a ladder, and two big oblong packages wrapped in oilcloth.
Albert Camus -- The Plague
There's something about those business envelopes with the transparent oblong address part that my soul runs away from.
Saul Bellow -- The Adventures of Augie March
The two men carried machines that looked like miniature vacuum cleaners, a cylindrical nozzle in one hand, an oblong black box in the other.
Pat Frank -- Alas, Babylon
Now the oblong of night was blank; Moses was not there.
Doris Lessing -- The Grass is Singing
It was studded with brown oblong shapes—petrified tree logs—and whitish fragments—pieces of petrified bone.
Richard Preston -- The Hot Zone
There was a flat, oblong case in the white envelope, the kind of case you get when you buy a watch.
Andrew Clements -- Frindle
The oblong white ceiling, with this scarlet blot in the midst, had the appearance of a gigantic ace of hearts.
Thomas Hardy -- Tess of the d'Urbervilles
He inspected the oblong white torso joined abruptly to the brown limbs and head, and said, laughing gravely: "You are all new like a baby."
F. Scott Fitzgerald -- Tender is the Night
The pale, oblong smear at the level of his elbow was the face of Wesley Mouch, who was seated on the floor.
Ayn Rand -- Atlas Shrugged
It was oblong and white with rounded edges.
James Dashner -- The Scorch Trials
Here he stayed till the thin shades thickened to opaque obscurity, and the loft-door became an oblong of gray light—the only visible shape around.
Thomas Hardy -- The Mayor of Casterbridge
She walked to the small oblong of glass in the middle door and looked inside.
Stephen King -- Carrie
At the opposite end of the corridor of the dark, the oblong of light was narrow-the door slightly ajar.
Henry Roth -- Call It Sleep
Stephen looked coldly on the oblong skull beneath him overgrown with tangled twine-coloured hair.
James Joyce -- A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
What they now saw was a wide oblong space flagged with smooth stones and surrounded by grey pillars but unroofed.
C.S. Lewis -- The Voyage of the Dawn Trader
"The asteroid we're constructing Troy from is fairly oblong."
John Ringo -- Live Free or Die
A prayer rug showing a slightly oblong Mecca was nailed to one of the walls.
Khaled Hosseini -- The Kite Runner
Each one had eyes fashioned of round or oblong disks of abalone shell, but the rest of their faces were blank.
Scott O'Dell -- Island of the Blue Dolphins
Besides, this diamond was oblong-like a kite-hardly an example of the flawless symmetry for which the Illuminati Diamond was revered.
Dan Brown -- Angels & Demons

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