oblong

Ornaments dangling in a shop window cast oblong shadows in a 2013 picture that’s almost surreal, echoing Man Ray and Dora Maar.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 19, 2025

Built on an oblong lot overlooking Studio City, the four-bedroom home was conceived by Soriano as an all-aluminium structure for Albert Grossman, an aluminium manufacturer and contractor.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 11, 2025

There’s something rather whimsical about eating the oblong fruit.

From Salon ● Sep. 6, 2025

The most famous visual landmark associated with Singapore is probably the Marina Bay Sands, with Moshe Safdie’s oblong, swimmable rooftop straddling three buildings.

From Slate ● Mar. 28, 2025

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.

From "Cat's Eye" by Margaret Atwood

Finally, after the umpteenth tilt, the mercury sparks, filling the oblongs with an eerie, flickering, mesmerizing blue glow.

From Seattle Times ● Jan. 26, 2024

To support his radical reassessment, Dr. Reeves pointed to a pair of cartouches — ovals or oblongs enclosing a group of hieroglyphs — and a curious misspelling painted on the tomb’s north wall.

From New York Times ● Oct. 30, 2022

Most of Engida’s canvases are crowded with women in domestic scenes, their faces rendered in simple black lines, except for the bright red oblongs that often represent lips.

From Washington Post ● Oct. 14, 2020

“My sense of proportion tells me that oblongs are more attractive than squares, just as…a greyhound is more graceful than an English bulldog,” Mr. Earl wrote in a 1954 essay in the Saturday Evening Post.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 25, 2018

Sunlight measured itself out in regular oblongs on the shabby, but soft red carpets, and a whiff of fresh-cut grass sweetened the air.

From "The Bell Jar" by Sylvia Plath