The large watermelons are of a slightly oblong shape and possess a dark green rind. From LearnThat.org. [www.yourdictionary.com]
The UFO was described as oblong with a curved front and a series of small nozzles at the rear. From Wordnik.com. [Daily News & Analysis] Reference
It was a large mattress with wooden sides, a kind of oblong box with a mattress top. From Wordnik.com. [Bullets & Billets] Reference
And yeah I think I've seen that - on dial up at home, but I'm guessing its the 'oblong' one?. From Wordnik.com. [Two days to go...] Reference
Then there was a long, narrow, brick-paved yard, a kind of oblong well, with one of the narrower sides broken down. From Wordnik.com. [Despair's Last Journey] Reference
Roll ⅓ of the sweet dough into an oblong sheet, ¼ inch thick. From Wordnik.com. [Pennsylvania Dutch Cooking] Reference
Add the flour; roll on the board and cut in oblong or diamond shapes. From Wordnik.com. [The Suffrage Cook Book] Reference
This dough can be moulded into small, oblong rolls for afternoon teas. From Wordnik.com. [The Golden Age Cook Book] Reference
Mix all well together, form into an oblong shape, leaving the top rough. From Wordnik.com. [The Golden Age Cook Book] Reference
It was roughly oblong in shape, and one side was sheer smooth rock surface. From Wordnik.com. [Gold in the Sky] Reference
It's quite sporty-looking, very different from those old, 1980s, oblong cars. From Wordnik.com. [A Look At The Detroit Auto Show] Reference
With pinpoint accuracy, his bullets struck the velociraptor in its oblong head. From Wordnik.com. [The Great Divide] Reference
There are actually a series of bruises, that are oblong and flat like fingertips. From Wordnik.com. [Dead Mothers] Reference
I place a clump dwelling with oblong walls along the nest rosa and green nest hill. From Wordnik.com. [The Nest] Reference
Roll thin, cut in oblong cakes with a jagging iron, or in any way to suit the fancy. From Wordnik.com. [The Golden Age Cook Book] Reference
It is an oblong basin, having its edge broken on the side down which the lava flowed. From Wordnik.com. [Wonders of Creation] Reference
The eight-mile-wide oblong of crude headed for the sandy beaches of the southern gulf. From Wordnik.com. [Saddam's Ecoterror] Reference
On his dressing-table, as she took off her hat, she noticed a neat little oblong parcel lying. From Wordnik.com. [A Sheaf of Corn] Reference
Roll about an inch thick, cut it round or oblong and bake in a quick oven about fifteen minutes. From Wordnik.com. [The Golden Age Cook Book] Reference
After an hour and a half, I couldn't chose between bright red, bold frames and black, oblong chic. From Wordnik.com. [Swimming Pool] Reference
There she bent over an oblong object, which I could not quite see at first, and rocked it with her hand. From Wordnik.com. [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference
Cut in any shape liked, either round, square or oblong, reserving a little for strips to decorate the top. From Wordnik.com. [The Golden Age Cook Book] Reference
She seated herself in a large gilded arm-chair at the middle of one side of the table, which was oblong in form. From Wordnik.com. [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference
In shape it was a great oblong cell, some fifty feet high, two hundred yards long, and about one hundred yards wide. From Wordnik.com. [Zehru of Xollar] Reference
She walks in curves around the oblong roads of the nest and hopes against hope for some secret nest thing of her own. From Wordnik.com. [The Nest] Reference
The sun, having renounced the day, squatted oblong on the horizon, a wounded eye swathed in red-stained cloud strips. From Wordnik.com. [Fasting to a Comfortable Death] Reference
The Egyptians thought of the earth with its land and sea as a long, oblong sort of box, the centre of which was Egypt. From Wordnik.com. [A Book of Discovery The History of the World's Exploration, From the Earliest Times to the Finding of the South Pole] Reference
He looked down the river again towards the oblong object which had caught his attention, but it was lost in the night. From Wordnik.com. [Tom of the Raiders] Reference
A large oblong thing, which rested near the water's edge about three-quarters of a mile below him, caught his attention. From Wordnik.com. [Tom of the Raiders] Reference
The sights should be arranged both ways, with a slit cut with a chisel through the brass or tin, and an oblong opening at each end. From Wordnik.com. [Farm drainage The Principles, Processes, and Effects of Draining Land with Stones, Wood, Plows, and Open Ditches, and Especially with Tiles] Reference
After a few minutes he began to zig-zag along the bank so that he could not possibly miss that oblong thing for which he was searching. From Wordnik.com. [Tom of the Raiders] Reference
Roll the dough as thin as paper, cut with a jagging iron in oblong pieces, slit one end with the iron and pass the other end through it. From Wordnik.com. [The Golden Age Cook Book] Reference
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