How to Use roundish in a Sentence

roundish

adjective
  • Bieber’s stage was large, roundish, and mostly bare, with a hilly ridge around the edges.
    — Vinson Cunningham, New Yorker, 18 Apr. 2026
  • There’s a roundish globe, a more triangular bulb, and an oval shape.
    — WIRED, 5 Sep. 2022
  • Then once the cheese has melted into a roundish blob, the taco fillings get piled on top.
    — Brad A. Johnson, Orange County Register, 15 Mar. 2017
  • 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
  • The boreal owl's roundish face is disk-shaped, like a radar antenna bouncing the slightest rustle of twigs to the owl's ears.
    — Ned Rozell, Anchorage Daily News, 30 June 2018
  • Some dots resemble pairs of eyes; others appear as overlapping roundish figures.
    — Shanti Escalante-De Mattei, ARTnews.com, 27 Apr. 2026
  • The last one was a red brick bungalow with a roundish front facade on South Crandon Avenue.
    — Marc Myers, WSJ, 4 Feb. 2020
  • Ffrolla sfogliatella is roundish and stuffed with the same ingredients but wrapped in shortcrust pastry.
    — Silvia Marchetti, CNN, 26 Apr. 2022
  • American dippers, roundish birds that feed underwater year-round, live near many hot springs and the unfrozen creeks the warm water enables.
    — Ned Rozell, Anchorage Daily News, 14 Apr. 2018
  • The 66-year-old Watanabe, a roundish fellow who talks in a kind of sardonic rumble, walks with all the grace of a sake barrel.
    — Gilles Mingasson, Smithsonian, 2 May 2017
  • The 66-year-old Watanabe, a roundish fellow who talks in a kind of sardonic rumble, walks with all the grace of a sake barrel.
    — Gilles Mingasson, Smithsonian, 29 May 2017
  • Pears are definitely another example of something that is roundish.
    — Sean McGowan, The New Yorker, 9 Mar. 2022
  • Overall, the design language shifts from squarish to roundish and more curvy, presenting a silhouette closer to a human figure, at least from the front.
    — Kaif Shaikh, Interesting Engineering, 8 Sep. 2025
  • Under magnification the spores appear roundish, colorless, and smooth to slightly rough.
    — Encyclopedia Britannica, 27 Mar. 2026
  • Osiris-Rex should reach the small, roundish asteroid next year and, in 2020, collect some of its gravel for return to Earth.
    — Washington Post, 22 Sep. 2017
  • With stems that twist around each other in a roundish shape, the Mammillaria Elongata ‘Cristata’ cactus looks like a human brain and a clump of worms.
    — Isabel Garcia, House Beautiful, 13 Aug. 2020
  • When baked to perfection, Savillum resembles a roundish pancake or omelet, slightly yellowish and with an overcooked surface.
    — Silvia Marchetti, CNN, 24 May 2022
  • The ubiquitous Weber Kettle, a roundish charcoal grill, has long been a patio staple and for many Americans was their first grill, and for many remains the only choice.
    — Larry Olmsted, Forbes, 7 June 2022
  • So argue Thom and James Elliot, brothers and pizza makers from England who have written a book celebrating the worldwide phenomenon of roundish dough cooked with toppings.
    — Mark Kennedy, Star Tribune, 1 Dec. 2020
  • On a cold Saturday night in late 1977, firefighters and police had responded to calls about a roundish, reddish object with blinking lights that hovered above the treetops in a public park, then dumped a bright mass onto the ground.
    — Chantel Tattoli, Wired, 18 Feb. 2022
  • Dwarf planets have been defined by the International Astronomical Union since 2006 as celestial bodies that are roundish like their larger cousins in the solar system, but which haven’t gobbled up all the other planetesimals near themselves.
    — Alexis Madrigal, WIRED, 11 Nov. 2009

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