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Example sentences for "oval shape"

  • When made small it is generally of a round shape, but when made rather large it is generally of an oval shape.

  • Cut ten pieces of bread square, or of an oval shape, and about the size of a half pigeon, fry them with a little butter, and place them on a dish.

  • Had he brought them with him, they would have been seen to be small leaves of an oblong-oval shape, sharp at the points, and of a whittish-green colour.

  • Each one was as large as a peach, of an oval shape, slightly flattened, and of a yellowish green colour.

  • There are no hind-limbs upon the animal, but just behind the head are two powerful fins of an oval shape.

  • Keep stirring them until they begin to set; then turn the edges of the omelet over, to make it an oval shape, and finish cooking it.

  • The leaves are upon short stalks, and are of an oval shape, and 3 to 5 inches long.

  • The cells which compose the nest, and which are to receive the larvae of the insect, are of an oval shape, and of a pale yellow or even of a blackish colour.

  • The female flea lays from eight to twelve eggs, which are of oval shape, smooth, viscous, and white.

  • A medium sized dessert apple, of second-rate quality, it is of an oval shape, green and russety color; and is in use from December till February.

  • Fruit, medium sized; of an oval shape, tapering a little towards the crown, which is narrow.

  • Had he brought them with him, they would have been seen to be small leaves of an oblong-oval shape, sharp at the points, and of a whitish-green colour.

  • In a fortnight, he found some hundreds of eggs deposited, of an oval shape and a pale-yellow colour.

  • These are of a spherical or oval shape, occupying the arm or branch of a tree sometimes from seventy to eighty feet from the ground, and as large, in a few instances, as a sugar-cask.

  • Reaumur observed, beneath one of the first which he examined, an elevation of an oval shape, which was formed out of a leaf of the same plant.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    believe they; belligerent powers; carefully avoided; charter granted; cold feet; comparatively early; different shades; each corps; final victory; had returned; last post; light troops; many voices; more frequent; oval form; oval shape; reproductive organs; shall write; this season; under cultivation; water evaporated; wild creatures; would also