Bayard Taylor

The native Jewish families in Jerusalem, as well as those in other parts of Palestine, present a marked difference to the Jews of Europe and America. They possess the same physical characteristics - the dark, oblong eye, the prominent nose, the strongly-marked cheek and jaw - but in the latter, these traits have become harsh and coarse.

American Journalist

Claude Monet

Try to forget what objects you have before you - a tree, a house, a field, or whatever. Merely think, 'Here is a little square of blue, here an oblong of pink, here a streak of yellow,' and paint it just as it looks to you, the exact color and shape, until it gives you your own impression of the scene before you.

French Artist

Pete Holmes

I think a good comedian was probably bullied a little bit. Probably felt doughy and oblong and rhombus-shaped and strange and a little bit of an outsider, and then learned the healing qualities of comedy.

American Comedian

Abraham Cahan

God, for example, appealed to me as a beardless man wearing a quilted silk cap; holiness was something burning, forbidding, something connected with fire while a day had the form of an oblong box.

Lithuanian Author

Stephen Leacock

The landlady of a boarding-house is a parallelogram - that is, an oblong angular figure, which cannot be described, but which is equal to anything.

Canadian Economist

Tom Douglas

Razor clams are large, oblong clams, although not as big as geoducks.

American Chef

T. J. Miller

My face is oblong. But the best grooming is confidence.

American Actor

Picture an oblong as a stretched circle or a squished rectangle for better understanding.

Visualize the Shape

Remember, oblongs resemble rectangles but often have rounded corners or unequal sides.

Not Perfectly Rectangular

Identify common items like certain phones or tablets that are oblong to visualize the word.

Common Objects Example

Understand that 'oblong' as a noun refers to the actual shape or item with that shape.

Physical Object Identification

Use 'oblong' to describe rooms or open spaces which are longer in one dimension.

Spatial Context

Remember, 'oblong' can describe three-dimensional objects as well, not just flat shapes.

3D Objects

 Now here we see 'Oumuamua racing between the stars. It's centered in the middle. The stars are trailed out because the telescope is following its motion. It started faint and then it got brighter, fainter, brighter, and fainter again, as sunlight is reflected off of four sides of an oblong object.

The story of 'Oumuamua,...

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The journey across the...

 Poor teacher. Nobody listens to mathematicians. Every creature on flatworld sees its Fellows as merely short lines, which are the nearest sides of their oblong bodies.

Oblong