Example sentences for: oblong

How can you use “oblong” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • The hair on the back was cut and full-thickness 25 mm oblong or 30 mm circular wounds, including panniculus carnosus, were made.

  • Similarly, performance was improved by localizing red blood cells, identified by strong eosin stain band expression, to oblong white objects, as they are typically found in intrasinusoidal space.

  • Two independent experiments with 25 mm oblong full-thickness excision wounds (6 mice of each type per experiment), including the striated muscle layer (panniculus carnosus), on the dorsal skin of wild-type and SPARC-null mice indicated that the absence of SPARC impeded healing of skin wounds.

  • With very little effort, it is possible to utter a terrific run-on sentence like, “Put the medium-sized brass bolt--not the one with the little black top, but the other one--into the sort of oblong L-shaped part with the green paint on one end, but first make sure that you have the axle pointed towards the side with the sort of wooden handle.”

  • The so-called diskette is a flat black square sealed envelope of rather tough plastic with a hole in the middle and an oblong slot on each of the flat sides; it is said to be 5¼ inches square, but that is a lie: as the only person who probably ever measured one of these things, I can tell you it is 5 3/16 inches square; that may seem irrelevant, but it is only the beginning of the Great Deception.


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