OVAL in a Sentence
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14 example sentences for OVAL, such as:
1. The playing field is a large oval.
2. A pale, oval face came forward into the light.
3. It was an oval face with strongly marked features.
4. Already one long oval bank of sand lay warm and dry amid the wavelets.
5. Two portraits in oval frames were fastened to the wall on each side of the bed.
2. A pale, oval face came forward into the light.
3. It was an oval face with strongly marked features.
4. Already one long oval bank of sand lay warm and dry amid the wavelets.
5. Two portraits in oval frames were fastened to the wall on each side of the bed.
Search Quotes from Classic Book Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen |
Meanings and Examples of OVAL
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oval
n. a closed plane curve resulting from the intersection of a circular cone and a plane cutting completely through it
a. rounded like an egg
Classic Sentence:
1 Already one long oval bank of sand lay warm and dry amid the wavelets.
2 It was an oval face with strongly marked features.
3 A pale, oval face came forward into the light.
4 He was dressed in a long green overcoat with mock astrakhan cuffs and collar and wore on his head an oval fur cap.
5 Then it began to scramble all over the oval stellated globe of the tiny blossoms.
6 He winced and, taking up from the table an oval glass framed in ivory Cupids, one of Lord Henry's many presents to him, glanced hurriedly into its polished depths.
7 The white oval of her face swam out waveringly from a background of shadows, the uncertain light blurring it like a haze; but the two lines about the mouth remained.
8 It was the country club, the diplomatic set, the St. Cecilia, the Ritz oval room, the Club de Vingt.
9 , a sword, pale, on an oval shield, like all the Italian armorial bearings, and surmounted by a cardinal's hat; Dantes easily recognized them, Faria had so often drawn them for him.
10 Over the easy chair there hung in a gold frame an oval portrait of Anna, a fine painting by a celebrated artist.
11 Up the drive she came, tooting up the incline, then sweeping round the oval of grass, where the two great wild beech-trees stood, on the flat in front of the house.
12 Two portraits in oval frames were fastened to the wall on each side of the bed.
Example Sentence:
1 Instead of being perfectly round like a globe, the universe might be a bit stretched in shape like an oval.
2 The playing field is a large oval.