Sentence examples for usually round and from inspiring English sources

Brush drawing, in the visual arts, technique in which a brush, usually round and pointed (in contrast to the flat and even-edged ones used for oil painting), is used to make drawings in ink or watercolour, although some artists (e.g., Degas) have used oil paint heavily diluted with turpentine.

The infantryman's shield was usually round and made of wood, with reinforcement of metal.

The extreme tips of the fragile, slender branches are usually rounded and brownish.

The eggs of Lepidoptera are usually rounded and small (1 mm) though they may be as large as 4 mm in the case of Sphingidae and Saturniidae.

This is the bit where you usually round things off with a joke.

It's usually round about £300 a lead.' Who gets the cash?

Each community had two or more kivas, or ceremonial rooms, usually round in early times but later square.

Pseudobulbs ovoid, usually round in cross-section, distributed on elongate creeping rhizome, sometimes caespitose, but clusters of pseudobulbs usually distantly remote along the rhizome, with 2 6 foliaceous bracts.

Larger, usually round.

Considerably shorter and wider than the normal ski and usually rounded at each end, Snowblades and most skiboards have a nonreleasing integrated binding that snaps onto any hard-soled boot at the toe and heel.

Therefore, to change glucose from mg/dL to mmol/L, one divides by 18.016 (usually rounded off to 18), and values are multiplied by 18 to switch from mmol/L to mg/dL.