All 11 Uses
oblong
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Cat's Eye
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- Up ahead there are huge oblong towers, all of glass, lit up, like enormous gravestones of cold light.†
p. 9.6 *
- My present is a Brownie box camera, black and oblong, with a handle on top and a round hole at the back to look through.†
p. 29.1
- She's short, and oblong in shape, so that her iron-gray cardigan falls straight from shoulder to hip with no pause in between for a waist.†
p. 84.9
- It's a pocket mirror, the small plain oblong kind without any rim.†
p. 175.1
- It's recently built, oblong in shape, flat-roofed, undecorated, unrevealing, sort of like a factory.†
p. 227.1
- If you stood in a two-dimensional universe you would only be perceived at the point of intersection, you'd be perceived as two oblong discs, two two-dimensional universes, seven-dimensional ones.†
p. 241.7
- The gravestones are few and recent: blockish oblongs of granite polished to a Presbyterian gloss, the letters cut plainly and without any attempt at prettiness.†
p. 254.1
- My brother knows that if he were to raise his he would see a runway, shimmering with heat, and beyond that a dun landscape alien as the moon, with a blinding sea in the background; and some oblong brown buildings with flat roofs, from which reprieve will come, or not.†
p. 425.6
- The new man starts to walk down the aisle of the plane, his oblong, three-holed head turning from side to side.†
p. 427.7
- I walk the next blocks, turn the corner, expecting to see the familiar dingy oblong of the school, in weathered red brick the color of dried liver.†
p. 436.1
- It's a vertical oblong, larger than the other paintings.†
p. 446.8
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)