How To Use Egg-shaped In A Sentence

  • 'Well, it be wooden, and sort of egg-shaped, and white-washed. A TIME OF WAR
  • She has a scar on her forehead. Her face is not round, but sort of egg-shaped, and she is about the height of this table.
  • The Osmia's larvæ, in fact, contrive to enclose themselves in an egg-shaped cocoon, dark brown in colour and very strong, which preserves them both from the rough contact of their shapeless cells and from the mandibles of voracious parasites, Acari, [5] Cleri [6] and Anthreni, [7] those manifold enemies whom we find prowling in the galleries, seeking whom they may devour. The Glow-Worm and Other Beetles
  • Using two teaspoons, form the cheese mixture into egg-shaped quenelles and spoon into the peppers.
  • Kokam butter, as found in the bazaars of India, consists of egg-shaped or concavo-convex cakes of a dirty white or yellowish colour, friable, crystalline, and with a greasy feel like spermaceti.
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  • A pleasing confederation of curves, the Cornish rex has a long, graceful neck that leads to a comparatively small, narrow, somewhat egg-shaped head.
  • pitahaya" (_Cereus giganteus_), with columnar shafts and straight upright arms, like the branches of gigantic candelabra; the echino-cacti, too -- those huge mammals of the vegetable world, resting their globular or egg-shaped forms, without trunk or stalk, upon the surface of the earth. The Rifle Rangers
  • The nest of the amadavat is large for the size of the bird, being a loosely-woven cup, which is egg-shaped and has a hole at or near the narrow end. A Bird Calendar for Northern India
  • The small egg-shaped bulb gives rise to a long flower stalk upon which globe-shaped purple-red flowers are produced.
  • These furnaces have a taphole that passes vertically through the hearth and shell, and is set off-centre in the narrow 'nose' of the egg-shaped hearth. Electric Arc Furnace (EAF)
  • Above this contraption floated a big egg-shaped silk balloon of hydrogen, from which the tricycle with the incumbent Alberto were suspended. SEIZE THE RECKLESS WIND
  • Discontinued in 1998, Tamagotchi was an egg-shaped, pocket-sized gadget with a cartoon pet that appeared on a screen.
  • Form the mixture into egg-shaped quenelles using two dessertspoons.
  • I am getting an egg-shaped bruise.
  • In their early stage they are enclosed in an egg-shaped veil (volva), having a gelatinous inner layer. Among the Mushrooms A Guide For Beginners
  • Worn across the chest of the tribeswoman are silver chains, circlets attached to more chains, chunks of amber inset with egg-shaped silver baubles and glass beads in red, green, yellow and black, colors that symbolize fertility.
  • This rough estimate applies to the globular and the egg-shaped bacteria, to which is given the name "coccus" (plural, cocci). Scientific American Supplement, No. 810, July 11, 1891
  • Kokam butter, as found in the bazaars of India, consists of egg-shaped or concavo-convex cakes of a dirty white or yellowish colour, friable, crystalline, and with a greasy feel like spermaceti.
  • The interior decor is quite cool, and innovative, particularly the egg-shaped toilets.
  • There were places, he saw, where the strands seemed to become clotted, forming large, almost egg-shaped masses. EVERVILLE
  • The firing of the main engine will brake the spacecraft, slowing and curving its trajectory into an egg-shaped orbit around the planet.
  • Each Loser is introduced with a comic rendering of their likeness, a handful of mildly implausible stunts keep things visually interesting, and then there's the egg-shaped superbomb that Max refers to as "The Snuke". Something Awful
  • Blue-eyed, white-haired and 5ft 10 in, he is rather taller than the sleuth, who is small and egg-shaped.
  • Leaves elliptic or egg-shaped, wider towards tips, margins serrated. Times, Sunday Times
  • Were we, class?) So when Tyler finally handed over the weird, translucent, egg-shaped moonstone and Mason immediately brought it to Katherine, I didn't let out a full-on gasp.
  • +Cap+ reddish-brown, 3 to 6 inches broad, fleshy; when young egg-shaped, and then campanulate, and flattening out with a broad, obtuse umbo. Among the Mushrooms A Guide For Beginners
  • Whitebeam trees now have many yellow or russet leaves and bright red, egg-shaped berries on them. Times, Sunday Times
  • Asteroids have more elongated or egg-shaped orbits bringing some of them onto paths which cross the Earth's orbit.
  • It cracked a fist-sized hole in the egg-shaped tower and continued on to splat wetly, electrically, onto Ayane's back.
  • Above this contraption floated a big egg-shaped silk balloon of hydrogen, from which the tricycle with the incumbent Alberto were suspended. SEIZE THE RECKLESS WIND
  • Form the mixture into egg-shaped quenelles using two dessertspoons.
  • Above this contraption floated a big egg-shaped silk balloon of hydrogen, from which the tricycle with the incumbent Alberto were suspended. SEIZE THE RECKLESS WIND
  • Kniphofia rooperi has egg-shaped flowers, but that too is evergreen and subject to winter setbacks. Times, Sunday Times
  • It's challenging to tease apart one's love of the massive sculpture from the perfectly proportioned piazza, with its oft-copied egg-shaped travertine pavement pattern, where the statue was permanently placed in 1538. Sometimes Two Is Better Than One
  • Retailing for $5 million, the oddly egg-shaped Trilobis seems halfway between a giant yacht and a floating home.
  • He visited his GP after discovering an egg-shaped lump and was referred to hospital where a biopsy diagnosed the cancer.
  • The final winner was a Frenchman, whose egg-shaped design was promptly criticised on all sides.
  • In "crowning," the egg-shaped top of a small skull emerges from a nest of deep purple fur that fills an excavation in a multilobed slice of a big log. NYT > Home Page
  • A wisp of blond hair hung under his receding chin and an egg-shaped raspberry mole dotted his left cheek.
  • Daily rations were limited to three hundred grams of black bread and pepper-pods, egg-fruit (an egg-shaped orange-yellow sweet fruit), rice-mill siftings, or cabbage, an inadequate diet upon which to survive. Pursuit of an 'Unparalleled Opportunity': The American YMCA and Prisoner of War Diplomacy among the Central Power Nations during World War I
  • People with egg-shaped or oval faces can get away with almost any type of frame.
  • The sail is egg-shaped, 30ft long, and eight feet wide.

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