Adjective : a kidney-shaped swimming pool. From Dictionary.com.
The kidney-shaped room beyond was hewn from the living tree. From Wordnik.com. [Nemesis]
I really had to hunt to find a kidney-shaped cookie cutter. From Wordnik.com. [Think They're Organic? [smirk]] Reference
He bumped into the table, which had a kidney-shaped indentation in it. From Wordnik.com. [Spoor of the Antis]
There was a little pile of letters on a kidney-shaped table in the hall. From Wordnik.com. [The Key to Rebecca]
Its form is rounded, sometimes kidney-shaped, and rough with protuberances. From Wordnik.com. [The Field and Garden Vegetables of America Containing Full Descriptions of Nearly Eleven Hundred Species and Varietes; With Directions for Propagation, Culture and Use.] Reference
The fruit is really the thickened, succulent stalk of the kidney-shaped nut. From Wordnik.com. [Tropic Days] Reference
They were almost kidney-shaped, built for a male kzin to lie half curled up. From Wordnik.com. [The Ringworld Engineers]
She had a breather tube in her nose, and a kidney-shaped bruise on her forehead. From Wordnik.com. [Songs of the Humpback Whale]
He stares at the small, kidney-shaped pool with its colorful Spanish-tile border. From Wordnik.com. [Predator]
The kidney-shaped pool was no more than five feet deep and surrounded by a sidewalk. From Wordnik.com. [Community Pool Advisor] Reference
A large swimming pool, kidney-shaped and Olympic-sized, encircled by tall ivy hedges. From Wordnik.com. [A King of Infinite Space]
Inside the dome is a kidney-shaped pool, its turquoise tiles encrusted with calcium. From Wordnik.com. [Monsoon] Reference
The fruit consists of short, flattened pods, each containing two or three kidney-shaped seeds. From Wordnik.com. [The Field and Garden Vegetables of America Containing Full Descriptions of Nearly Eleven Hundred Species and Varietes; With Directions for Propagation, Culture and Use.] Reference
It was the shape and size of a pear, but had a peculiar kidney-shaped pendant at its large end. From Wordnik.com. [The Wonder Island Boys: The Mysteries of the Caverns] Reference
Now the courtyard consisted of a kidney-shaped plot of brown grass surrounded by dirty concrete. From Wordnik.com. [The Black Echo]
Maybe marry American, buy a house, a dog, build a kidney-shaped swimming pool in my big backyard. From Wordnik.com. [Nick Mwaluko: Becoming a Man] Reference
The wood ferns, on the other hand, have a kidney-shaped indusium attached to the fronds by the sinus. From Wordnik.com. [The Fern Lover's Companion A Guide for the Northeastern States and Canada] Reference
GaoLing and Edmund moved to Saratoga, a town of vast-lawned ranch-style homes and kidney-shaped pools. From Wordnik.com. [The Bonesetter's Daughter]
They are kidney-shaped, rather straight, three-fourths of an inch long, and three-tenths of an inch thick. From Wordnik.com. [The Field and Garden Vegetables of America Containing Full Descriptions of Nearly Eleven Hundred Species and Varietes; With Directions for Propagation, Culture and Use.] Reference
It was at the end of a narrow peninsula between the gulf to the left and a kidney-shaped swimming pool to the right. From Wordnik.com. [Fear is the Key]
Its magenta-flowered balconies overlook a kidney-shaped swimming pool adorned with charmingly kitsch statues of nymphs. From Wordnik.com. [Liquid Refreshment:] Reference
The “Stringbike” uses two steel cables attached to pulleys, which move on swinging kidney-shaped discs as you pedal. From Wordnik.com. [Daily Dispatch: TripIt Pro monitors your flights for price drops; Tecca electronics shopping service launches] Reference
Wax gourd has leaves which are rounded or kidney-shaped, 10 - 25 cm in diameter, heart-shaped at the base and 5 - 7 lobed. From Wordnik.com. [Chapter 9] Reference
But the small spring-fed, kidney-shaped plunge pool is all the more inviting for you having to cross a desert to reach it. From Wordnik.com. [Journey to the Jade Sea] Reference
"Mine is a statement against the government," said Julius Katende, pointing at the large, kidney-shaped slab in front of him. From Wordnik.com. [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference
He bought them a large kidney-shaped dish that had its own little island, a plastic palm tree, some aquatic plants, and a snail. From Wordnik.com. [A Dirty Job HTML]
Pash strolled over to the Glass Pool Inn and stopped to stare at the kidney-shaped, aboveground swimming pool in the parking lot. From Wordnik.com. [Loaded Dice]
When they exist solely to move the plot along, they stand out, and not in a good way In a kidney-shaped coffee-table sort of way. From Wordnik.com. [Waid Wednesdays #12: Characters Are Not Furniture] Reference
The seeds are large, flat, somewhat kidney-shaped, of a yellowish-brown color, and retain their powers of germination five years. From Wordnik.com. [The Field and Garden Vegetables of America Containing Full Descriptions of Nearly Eleven Hundred Species and Varietes; With Directions for Propagation, Culture and Use.] Reference
In the round, four or five-lobed seed vessels are black kidney-shaped seeds, which retain their vitality two years or even longer. From Wordnik.com. [Culinary Herbs: Their Cultivation Harvesting Curing and Uses] Reference
They are kidney-shaped, irregularly compressed or flattened, nearly three-fourths of an inch long, and three-eighths of an inch deep. From Wordnik.com. [The Field and Garden Vegetables of America Containing Full Descriptions of Nearly Eleven Hundred Species and Varietes; With Directions for Propagation, Culture and Use.] Reference
Back then Errol Flynn, Johnny Weissmuller, Roy Rogers, Cary Grant and others came to lounge by the kidney-shaped pool at Los Flamingos. From Wordnik.com. [Mexico's Vacation Paradise Marred By Drug Carnage] Reference
A quick slash of the throat, and then you start looking for the greyish, kidney-shaped masses kind of floating loose in the neck tissue. From Wordnik.com. [grouse Diary Entry] Reference
A very dwarf species, not more than 3in. or 4in. high; the foliage a clear bright green, nearly kidney-shaped, lobed, and roundly toothed. From Wordnik.com. [Hardy Perennials and Old Fashioned Flowers Describing the Most Desirable Plants, for Borders, Rockeries, and Shrubberies.] Reference
Maybe it was the swimming scenario hammering him since they'd enjoyed countless hours in his parents 'landscaped backyard and kidney-shaped pool growing up. From Wordnik.com. [Strategic Engagement]
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