OVAL in a Sentence

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For OVAL, below is one of 14 sentences:
He was dressed in a long green overcoat with mock astrakhan cuffs and collar and wore on his head an oval fur cap.

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 Meanings and Examples of OVAL
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
oval
 a.  elliptic; rounded like an egg
Classic Sentence:
1  Already one long oval bank of sand lay warm and dry amid the wavelets.
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man By James Joyce
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 4
2  It was an oval face with strongly marked features.
Dubliners By James Joyce
Context  Highlight   In A PAINFUL CASE
3  A pale, oval face came forward into the light.
Dubliners By James Joyce
Context  Highlight   In GRACE
4  He was dressed in a long green overcoat with mock astrakhan cuffs and collar and wore on his head an oval fur cap.
Dubliners By James Joyce
Context  Highlight   In THE DEAD
5  Then it began to scramble all over the oval stellated globe of the tiny blossoms.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 2
6  He winced and, taking up from the table an oval glass framed in ivory Cupids, one of Lord Henry's many presents to him, glanced hurriedly into its polished depths.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 7
7  The white oval of her face swam out waveringly from a background of shadows, the uncertain light blurring it like a haze; but the two lines about the mouth remained.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 3
8  It was the country club, the diplomatic set, the St. Cecilia, the Ritz oval room, the Club de Vingt.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VII
9  , a sword, pale, on an oval shield, like all the Italian armorial bearings, and surmounted by a cardinal's hat; Dantes easily recognized them, Faria had so often drawn them for him.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre Dumas
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 24. The Secret Cave.
10  Over the easy chair there hung in a gold frame an oval portrait of Anna, a fine painting by a celebrated artist.
Anna Karenina 1 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In PART 3: Chapter 14
11  Up the drive she came, tooting up the incline, then sweeping round the oval of grass, where the two great wild beech-trees stood, on the flat in front of the house.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H Lawrence
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 7
12  Two portraits in oval frames were fastened to the wall on each side of the bed.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER VI—WHO GUARDED HIS HOUSE FOR HIM
Example Sentence:
1  Instead of being perfectly round like a globe, the universe might be a bit stretched in shape like an oval.
2  The playing field is a large oval.