Definitions
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- adj. Resembling an oven, especially in shape
Etymologies
Examples
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He tried to speak, but his breath would not carry into the ovenlike temperature.
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We walked through the ovenlike house to the driveway.
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As I walked away I could hear the rhythmic chipping sound of their shovels moving earth from one place to another, which seemed to be amplified in the ovenlike twilight stillness.
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The ovenlike wind in his face, he drove the trotting team and wondered where he would find a tracker.
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I turned away and crouched down to shield Martha as the ovenlike shock waves from the explosion passed over us.
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The priest was hyperaware of the heat of the plain and the ovenlike convection inside the vehicle.
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If the sun seldom penetrated here and it was dank, dark, and chill by winter, at least now it was something less than ovenlike.
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Daffyd stepped forward and opened the heavy wooden door, and Anna could sense the ovenlike heat outside.
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The underside of the bridge glowed with its own light, heated, ovenlike, by the volcanic fury of the river.
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His home planet was certainly known for its ovenlike heat, but Vulcan was also dry as a parched streambed.
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