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Recent Examples of roundishIn the map created for the 2022 film, Gotham is three islands that are almost roundish, jagged circles connected by bridges, so the Tricorner Bridge is kind of like the Brooklyn Bridge, but not quite.—Adriane Quinlan, Curbed, 20 Sep. 2024 Eventually this network consolidates into roundish blobs, and two distinct phases arise—one enriched with LAT and the other with very little LAT but lots of other proteins.—Trevor Grandpre, Scientific American, 14 Aug. 2024 At maturity, trees reach about 20 to 30 feet tall with a slightly larger width, ending up in a roundish shape with a flatter top.—Dawn Pettinelli, Hartford Courant, 13 June 2024 The storage unit is perfect for round (or roundish) bottles, which make the most use of the space.—Mary Cornetta, Better Homes & Gardens, 16 Sep. 2022 See All Example Sentences for roundish
Lounge chairs have become increasingly bulbous and cushy over the years, so Knoll’s Perron Pillo Lounge chair feels perfectly on trend.
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Nicole Hoey,
Robb Report,
31 Mar. 2026
Sound collected by a deer’s large, swiveling outer ears is funneled through small, conical ducts into these bulbous structures protecting the middle and inner ears.
The meteorite lacked chondrules, spherical features embedded in the vast majority of material that falls to Earth from space.
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Maliya Ellis,
Houston Chronicle,
5 Apr. 2026
That acceleration, which for one mass orbiting another (like a planet orbiting a star) is both non-spherical and asymmetrical, necessitates the emission of gravitational radiation in order to conserve both energy and momentum.
Briefly appearing in a TikTok video about the new MacBook Neo, a brand-new, rotund character based on Apple's iconic Finder application, the file manager on Apple computers, is taking the internet by storm.
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Greta Cross,
USA Today,
10 Mar. 2026
His rotund frame and bald head gave him the appearance of a human bowling ball.