How to Use ovoid in a Sentence

ovoid

adjective
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  • The egg is all of life condensed into one smooth, ovoid shell.
    — Ruby Tandoh, Bon Appétit, 13 July 2022
  • The ovoid leaves can reach lengths of 7 inches and are hairy underneath.
    — cleveland, 1 Oct. 2019
  • The creature in the middle panel is an ovoid shape, seemingly trapped in the corner of a room.
    — Joan Acocella, The New Yorker, 17 May 2021
  • In front of me was a black ovoid stone, known as the omphalos, set on the spot in Greek mythology where two eagles loosed by Zeus crossed paths at the earth’s nexus.
    — Liz Alderman, New York Times, 9 July 2019
  • The ovoid shape wobbled slowly downward in the brackish water.
    — John Lahr, Esquire, 16 June 2016
  • Their tomb was an ovoid jar beneath the floor of a grand hall in an expansive hilltop complex known as La Almoloya, in what is now Murcia, Spain.
    — New York Times, 11 Mar. 2021
  • All chocolate, even white chocolate, starts with the fruit of the cacao tree, an equatorial, Seussian-looking plant with plump, bumpy, ovoid pods that grow directly from the trunk.
    — The New York Times News Service Syndicate, The Denver Post, 14 Feb. 2020
  • This was largely thanks to my childhood home, whose crowning feature was a beautiful, ovoid, blue-bottomed backyard pool, rimmed with tile the same color as brick.
    — Matt Grant, Longreads, 21 Aug. 2017
  • Like all the other Outlier models, the new Pro version earbuds are housed in an attractive ovoid cylinder.
    — Mark Sparrow, Forbes, 15 Apr. 2022
  • The case is made of lightweight titanium with a sleek, ovoid curved shape that is notably more subtle than the bulging subdials of many previous Greubel Forsey models.
    — Carol Besler, Robb Report, 8 Jan. 2022
  • However, the large, ovoid leaves of common milkweed impart the greatest benefit to monarchs.
    — cleveland, 7 Oct. 2020
  • The car world now expects modern Korean vehicles to exude class, and the Sorento—currently a bit ovoid and dull—is the latest Kia to shed a less desirable skin.
    — Clifford Atiyeh, Car and Driver, 17 Feb. 2020
  • Haider Ackermann sliced and diced suiting so that a sharp, perfectly cut collarless jacket turned to reveal an ovoid curve cutout at the back, playing hide and seek with a muscle tank.
    — Vanessa Friedman, New York Times, 1 Oct. 2017
  • The ovoid forms, in beige, puce and black, recall human breasts as much as cows’ udders or sex organs, and for Rama, anyway, sexual readings were never to be evaded.
    — Jason Farago, New York Times, 11 May 2017
  • The front end is inspired by an art deco aesthetic with an inquisitive-looking face formed by twin ovoid nacelles and bisected by a wide light strip that wraps around the sides.
    — Derek Powell, Car and Driver, 29 Sep. 2021
  • Whether arched, ovoid or amorphous, the latest styles are assuming unexpected forms.
    — New York Times, 17 Mar. 2022
  • Just off the entry, a signature James Turrell ovoid wall sculpture greets visitors with a dreamy chromatic display, the first of many personal artistic accents woven throughout her home.
    — Mike Rose, cleveland, 4 Aug. 2020
  • The unique buildings that starchitects produce often set themselves apart from the fabric of their locations—amid a neighborhood of brick town houses there will suddenly appear, for instance, a silver blob like the ovoid spaceship from Arrival.
    — Kyle Chayka, The New Republic, 2 May 2018

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