limning

NOUN
  1. a drawing of the outlines of forms or objects
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How To Use limning In A Sentence

  • He analogized entropy -- psychic/physical/sexual -- in gorgeous, assaulting, crevassing paint limning bodies torqued by forces inside and outside of them. Marlena Doktorczyk-Donohue: Obit for Two: A Reflection on Dying, Culture, Lucien Freud and Amy Winehouse
  • Nearly every song on A Treasury is a show-stopper, and the track selection is fine, spotlighting Drake's weighty insights and limning the various complexions of his character.
  • One of the last things that registered on Dave's perception as his vision faded was a flickering black nimbus of energy limning the creature's form.
  • The shining ship swam serenely through the upper atmosphere, light limning its skin in shafts of golden brilliance as they sailed towards the barriers ahead, proud and uncaring.
  • hatchelled" on the sky in minute lines and limnings. Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 26, September, 1880
  • Is there a bare minimum of representation that we can respond to as fully limning us?
  • He analogized entropy -- psychic/physical/sexual -- in gorgeous, assaulting, crevassing paint limning bodies torqued by forces inside and outside of them. Marlena Doktorczyk-Donohue: Obit for Two: A Reflection on Dying, Culture, Lucien Freud and Amy Winehouse
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