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  • adjective having the approximate size of an orange

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Examples

  • A co-worker who'd somehow been outside though, had returned to the accounting division holding an orange-sized rock, streaked with blood.

    Archive 2008-04-01 Kate Fleurange 2008

  • A co-worker who'd somehow been outside though, had returned to the accounting division holding an orange-sized rock, streaked with blood.

    Food Riots in Haiti Kate Fleurange 2008

  • The back side of the gate is riddled with orange-sized pock marks.

    The Zapata Route In Morelos Part 2: His Heart Stopped Beating 2008

  • He imagines he can feel the severation of the orange-sized prostate lying hot and turgid against the back of his pelvis; he can imagine the lightness of his body when the burn of the meteor finishes; he imagines himself floating in a vast and silky sea, free to pee as much as he would like without straining, a full and proud stream that will rattle the toilet-water as he sinks into the ether.

    Harry, Giselle and Joyce 2010

  • The back side of the gate is riddled with orange-sized pock marks.

    The Zapata Route In Morelos Part 2: His Heart Stopped Beating 2008

  • The back side of the gate is riddled with orange-sized pock marks.

    The Zapata Route In Morelos Part 2: His Heart Stopped Beating 2008

  • My daughter's egress had been blocked by an orange-sized growth Mister Consultant's benign chum expanded many fold by the new blood supply and my daughter's growth hormones or whatever - a commonplace obstetrical occurrence I was told.

    [birth] miracle of life or a pain in the proverbial 2009

  • The squid quickly dashed away but not before removing 'an orange-sized chunk of flesh from the side of the shark's head with its powerful beak,' Kerstitch told me not long after the encounter.

    Archive 2004-03-01 Brian 2004

  • The squid quickly dashed away but not before removing 'an orange-sized chunk of flesh from the side of the shark's head with its powerful beak,' Kerstitch told me not long after the encounter.

    Weirdwriter Brian 2004

  • England came into the world in a very unusual way after a routine scan found an orange-sized growth on his neck, the U. K.'s Daily Telegraph reported.

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