How to Use roundish in a Sentence
roundish
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No need to make perfect rounds — a roundish shape will do.
—Christian Reynoso, San Francisco Chronicle, 19 Mar. 2021
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Then once the cheese has melted into a roundish blob, the taco fillings get piled on top.
—Brad A. Johnson, Orange County Register, 15 Mar. 2017
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The 66-year-old Watanabe, a roundish fellow who talks in a kind of sardonic rumble, walks with all the grace of a sake barrel.
—Gilles Mingasson, Smithsonian, 2 May 2017
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The 66-year-old Watanabe, a roundish fellow who talks in a kind of sardonic rumble, walks with all the grace of a sake barrel.
—Gilles Mingasson, Smithsonian, 29 May 2017
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Those that do not look roundish. The team report that more than 80% of the macrophages treated with lipopolysaccharide and then saline grew long pseudopods.
—The Economist, 14 Sep. 2017
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Osiris-Rex should reach the small, roundish asteroid next year and, in 2020, collect some of its gravel for return to Earth.
—Washington Post, 22 Sep. 2017
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The last one was a red brick bungalow with a roundish front facade on South Crandon Avenue.
—Marc Myers, WSJ, 4 Feb. 2020
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Two tomato problems: little hard scars or rings of slasher-like cracks on the top of the tomatoes and/or roundish black rotten spots on the sides.
—Ellen Nibali, baltimoresun.com, 22 Aug. 2017
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The boreal owl's roundish face is disk-shaped, like a radar antenna bouncing the slightest rustle of twigs to the owl's ears.
—Ned Rozell, Anchorage Daily News, 30 June 2018
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The safest non-Apple neutral look is the most common design: a black, roundish bud that doesn’t have any major protrusions.
—Heather Kelly, Washington Post, 29 Nov. 2019
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These fronds, or leaves, are produced in two forms: the sterile fronds that are roundish and grow flat at the base of the plant, and the fertile fronds that grow outward resembling stag antlers, giving the fern its name.
—Dan Gill, NOLA.com, 16 Sep. 2017
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With stems that twist around each other in a roundish shape, the Mammillaria Elongata ‘Cristata’ cactus looks like a human brain and a clump of worms.
—Isabel Garcia, House Beautiful, 13 Aug. 2020
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American dippers, roundish birds that feed underwater year-round, live near many hot springs and the unfrozen creeks the warm water enables.
—Ned Rozell, Anchorage Daily News, 14 Apr. 2018
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On a cold Saturday night in late 1977, firefighters and police had responded to calls about a roundish, reddish object with blinking lights that hovered above the treetops in a public park, then dumped a bright mass onto the ground.
—Chantel Tattoli, Wired, 18 Feb. 2022
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So argue Thom and James Elliot, brothers and pizza makers from England who have written a book celebrating the worldwide phenomenon of roundish dough cooked with toppings.
—Mark Kennedy, Star Tribune, 1 Dec. 2020
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Pears are definitely another example of something that is roundish.
—Sean McGowan, The New Yorker, 9 Mar. 2022
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Dwarf planets have been defined by the International Astronomical Union since 2006 as celestial bodies that are roundish like their larger cousins in the solar system, but which haven’t gobbled up all the other planetesimals near themselves.
—Alexis Madrigal, WIRED, 11 Nov. 2009
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