All 10 Uses
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Native Son
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- Like the oblong mound of fresh clay of a newly made grave, the red coals revealed the bent outline of Mary's body He had the feeling that if he simply touched that red oblong mound with his finger it would cave in and Mary's body would come into full view, unburnt.†
Book 2
- Like the oblong mound of fresh clay of a newly made grave, the red coals revealed the bent outline of Mary's body He had the feeling that if he simply touched that red oblong mound with his finger it would cave in and Mary's body would come into full view, unburnt.†
Book 2
- The rattling of the tiny lumps against the tin sides of the chute came loudly to his ears as the oblong mound of red fire turned gradually black and blazed from the fanwise spreading of coal whirling into the furnace.†
Book 2 *
- The man called Toorman reached out his foot and kicked an oblong bone from the ashes" it slid a few inches over the concrete floor.†
Book 2
- And now there they lay, tiny, oblong pieces of white bone, cushioned in grey ashes.†
Book 2
- He kicked at the door several times, each kick making it give slightly until he saw snow, sunshine, and an oblong strip of sky The wind came stinging into his face and he remembered how weak and cold he was.†
Book 2
- This time the shaded area had deepened from both the north and south, leaving a small square of white in the middle of the oblong Black Belt.†
Book 2
- He looked and saw the two white-coated attendants pushing an oblong, sheet-covered table through the crowd and down the aisle.†
Book 3
- The oblong table was pushed to the front of the room.†
Book 3
- His eyes rested wistfully on the still oblong white draped form under the sheet on the table and he felt a deeper sympathy for Bessie than at any time when she was alive.†
Book 3
Definitions:
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(1)
(oblong) an elongated shape (having more length than width) -- typically of a stretched circle that is longer than an oval, but occasionally used to describe a rectangle
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)