as round as

Grammar usage guide and real-world examples

It's about making glutinous rice dumplings, and making them as round as possible because that will beckon a well-rounded year ahead.

The screen, as round as a porthole, displayed flickering words.

Mia Farrow has "eyes as round as her fist".

Not as round as normal but shining hard.

Her face appeared in the kitchen doorway, as round as the moon.

HER spectacles, as round as soup tureens, lend Iris Apfel a startled look.

Some were as rounded as a crescent moon, and others as straight as a policeman's truncheon.

That sound, which can be as rounded as a cello or as shrill as a siren, floats through most of Sigur Ros's songs.

Popovers as rounded as the mountaintops are a specialty and come with everything from lobster salad ($20) to vegetable quiche ($12).

The drink, of which only 16,00 bottles have been made, is aged in Oloroso sherry butts for around 12 to 15 years, giving it what Murray called a "nutty, thick, dry [taste]… as rounded as a snooker ball".

Those that are not as rounded as the TR control and with short buds or sprouts are determined to be irregular.