Sentence examples for roughly the shape of from inspiring English sources

Generally, they are lentiform (shaped like a biconvex lens), but viewed from the side they appear more almond-shaped or spindle-shaped, while in front view they appear oval or mitriform (roughly the shape of a miter a peaked cap).

Eggcorn itself has a certain logic, for example, because acorns are roughly the shape of eggs".

I flopped it into a rimmed cookie sheet and smushed it into the best rectangle I could, roughly the shape of Iowa.

Volcanic in origin, the islands are scattered over the water in roughly the shape of an arrowhead, erupting out of the sea in imposing basalt cliffs.

It had the solidity and weight, and roughly the shape, of a fire hydrant (as did the rest of him, for that matter).

Behind the News -- Using a gel-filled collector roughly the shape of a tennis racket, the Stardust probe picked up particles from a comet as well as interstellar dust.

There is nothing new about the idea of a building roughly mimicking the shape of the human body, of course.

This is basically a flotation device, an air-filled, rigid plastic raft roughly in the shape of a kayak.

The latter circuit, which encompassed the commercially important Senne and a significant escarpment to the east, was roughly in the shape of a pentagon, the trace of which is still visible from the air.

Wildly curvy and colorful, built roughly in the shape of a guitar with the Seattle Center's monorail running through it, the museum is a celebration of modern music and includes a sound lab that, the museum says, lets you "plug in, jam, dance, wail, scratch, learn, connect and, ultimately, experience the euphoria of making music".

A number of sites have attracted the I.A.E.A.'s interest since Iran's uranium-enrichment work was first revealed, but the inspectors have focussed particular attention on a cluster of buildings, arranged roughly in the shape of a star, near the mountain town of Natanz, about two hundred miles south of Tehran.