How to Use ovoid in a Sentence

ovoid

adjective

• 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
• Flotation therapy involves floating in a dark and very quiet ovoid chamber (imagine a giant egg), which is filled with salty water warmed to near body temperature.
  — Kate Murphy, WSJ, 13 Aug. 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

Last Updated: 14 Dec 2024