ovoid

IPA: ˈoʊvɔɪd

Examples of "ovoid" in Sentences

Big keys with an ovoid hollow at the top, the better to grasp on to and twist.
The resulting ovoid is about three or four feet wider than what can actually be accommodated in the lot, Mr. Byrne said.
There was a cluster of white china in the ovoid fountain, which had been turned off, illuminated in arctic blue and lavender.
He pared his figurative forms—a torso, bird, kiss or head—down to essences, often in the form of ovoid, cubic or tubular masses.
I pictured her in a pale blue shell, tumbling in the ovoid enclosure, scratching wildly for an exit, only one set of claws to break free of it.
The Hope Diamond is a very brilliant deep blue faceted ovoid diamond that measures 25.60 millimeters by 21.78 millimeters by 12.00 millimeters and weights 45.52 carats.
In front of the oven is a tall counter that acts as a pass-through, and in front of that, on the floor, is an old freestanding TV, maybe from the early sixties with one of those ovoid screens.
Arp's painted-wood bas-relief "La Femme-amphore" (1929), in which a small figurative form, like a kernel, floats through the womb-like bowl of an amphora, speaks to Brancusi's curled-up ovoid "The Newborn (Version I)" (1920).