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• “I pictured her in a pale blue shell, tumbling in the ovoid enclosure, scratching wildly for an exit, only one set of claws to break free of it.”

  Simon & Schuster: The Bird House

• “Big keys with an ovoid hollow at the top, the better to grasp on to and twist.”

  Simon & Schuster: How the End Begins

• “In front of the oven is a tall counter that acts as a pass-through, and in front of that, on the floor, is an old freestanding TV, maybe from the early sixties with one of those ovoid screens.”

  The Huffington Post: One For The Table: Capizzi

• “He pared his figurative forms—a torso, bird, kiss or head—down to essences, often in the form of ovoid, cubic or tubular masses.”

  The Wall Street Journal: The Shape of Things

• “Arp's painted-wood bas-relief "La Femme-amphore" (1929), in which a small figurative form, like a kernel, floats through the womb-like bowl of an amphora, speaks to Brancusi's curled-up ovoid "The Newborn (Version I)" (1920).”

  The Wall Street Journal: The Shape of Things

• “There was a cluster of white china in the ovoid fountain, which had been turned off, illuminated in arctic blue and lavender.”

  The Wall Street Journal: All Aboard the RMS Guggenheim

• “The Hope Diamond is a very brilliant deep blue faceted ovoid diamond that measures 25.60 millimeters by 21.78 millimeters by 12.00 millimeters and weights 45.52 carats.”

  Hope Iv | SciFi, Fantasy & Horror Collectibles

• “This slab became the main space organizational element and carrier of the fundamental motive; hole in the form of an ovoid.”

  EggO House by A69 Architects

• “The ovoid in this slab defines a focus around which the new house unwinds.”

  EggO House by A69 Architects

• “Instinctively, she caught it: small, ovoid and metallic.”

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