Then he glanced towards the windows, oblongs of dingy grey looking upon fog and daylight darkness.
Then one of the oblongswas again obscured, and the room was abruptly plunged in darkness.
Then one of the oblongs of light beyond the balcony was broken up by a darkness.
Buttonhole-stitch the edges all around with some bright-colored worsted, then place the oblongs neatly together and stitch them directly through the centre with strong thread (Fig.
The ruddy oblongs of sunlight crawled nearer to the east wall of the room, stretching themselves thinner and thinner, until finally they were not there at all, and the room was left in deepening grayness.
PART OF A QUILT Made of squares of lacis work alternating with oblongs of linen in which are squares worked in needle-point called reticello or cut-work.
Many of the earlier albs are decorated with passemens or apparels, which are squares or oblongs of ornamental work often enriched with gold thread.
Fill the small oblongs in the border with flat washes of gray.
Under the sketch, arrange in little oblongs the colors you found in the plant.
Draw two oblongsnot less than eight inches high, and wide enough to make a panel of pleasing proportions.
Draw three oblongs four times the size of those on this page.
In the three oblongs on this page, the marsh-marigold shapes have been used in three ways.
Should the dough tear, or not come to the desired shape, just fold it into squares or oblongs and then roll again.
Cut into oblongs and then dip in beaten egg and roll in fine crumbs.
Roll the pastry on a slightly floured pastry board one-fourth inch thick; cut in oblongs three inches wide and six inches long.
He withdrew from the apparatus a contrivance like a pair of brief tongs, of which the shanks were stout wires and the spatulates were oblongs of thin, whitish metal like aluminum, some three inches long by two wide.
Opposite the door, two tall windows, like sepulchral portals, framed oblongs of the outer darkness; and the white-tiled stove in the corner was like a mausoleum.
It was pitch black, except for a series of bright yellow oblongs that seemed to go up into the sky, where he could see the stars.
It was nearly dark, and through the pearly mist of the river came red oblongs of light from the taverns along the bank.
Let them now fold their oblongs again, and crease the folds; then ask them to unfold and say what they have, and they will find four squares.
Then ask them if all oblongs are of the same shape; and then if all squares are of the same shape?
The windows were mere oblongsof dim light, stretching up into the lofty roof, and that shadow looming in one shadowy corner, across a vast expanse of shadowy matting, must be the Bechstein piano.
I sat staring at those five solemn oblongs of the glimmering windows, showing lighter and lighter as the shadows deepened in the big bare room.
In the first 12 trials, little squares oroblongs of sanded card, 1.
As soon as the beans had protruded radicles, some to a length of less than a tenth of an inch, and others to a length of several tenths, little squares or oblongs of card were affixed to the short sloping sides of their conical tips.
Whereupon practically every man in the pit was in motion, for or against him, the galleries two oblongs of battle.
But in a few cases, as at Naples among the more ancient, and at Carthage among the later foundations, they are oblong and the oblongs are very long and narrow.
As Naples was by origin and character a Greek city, these narrow oblongshave been supposed to represent a Greek arrangement.
In general, the oblongs seem to have been laid out with great regularity and the angles are right angles, though the 'insulae' in the northern and southern rows of house-blocks cannot have been fully rectangular and symmetrical.
It resembles also much Roman military work, both of Republican and of Imperial date, which disregards the strict right angle and accepts squares and oblongs which are, so to say, askew.
All but a sparse half-dozen of the trees had given place to lines of hothouses, through the glass of which he could see oblongs of vivid green.
If anything admirable is to be built from this amount of material the material ought to be presented in very small cubes, oblongs and arches--say 1 in.
Then with these eight sticks let him make twooblongs of the same size.
Place a third strip from top to bottom of the folded oblongs to hold them together.
Turn the oblongs over and place the remaining strip in corresponding position.
Ribbon Flags= (Green satin ribbon, one inch wide, wooden toothpick) Cut the ribbon into oblongs to make wee flags.
Still a mile and a half away on either side the great Redoubt, and in front of it there are cubes and oblongs which look like masses of grey stone, and might pass for such except that now and again they may be seen to move.
And then there is silence again, and a long waiting, and the grave massive oblongs and cubes of masonry come down on this side and on that, and the watchers in the valley wait in a tense and terrible strain.
A raw wind was chattering among the bare twigs of the sycamore trees; the earth was a rigid shell from the night's frost, and its little squares and oblongs of grass were a brownish-gray; the sky was overcast with gray clouds.
The lads could see the white-flecked sea tops heave against it, and the rows of straining staysails, and great oblongs of the topsails across the masts, sharp and black above them as if cut out of ebony.
As he spoke one of the topsails swelled out, flapped and banged, then other great oblongs of canvas ceased their rustling too, and a flash of brilliant green swept athwart the sea.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "oblongs" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
