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UK
/vɪnjˈɛt/
]
[ US /vinˈjɛt, vɪnˈjɛt/ ]
[ US /vinˈjɛt, vɪnˈjɛt/ ]
NOUN
- a brief literary description
- a small illustrative sketch (as sometimes placed at the beginning of chapters in books)
- a photograph whose edges shade off gradually
How To Use vignette In A Sentence
- The opening vignette, ‘Lullaby for a Broken Dog’ is simple piano tinklings and a man's spoken words over the hiss and pop of a needle on an old record.
- What we saw on Sunday made a perfect vignette of contemporary middle-distance racing. Times, Sunday Times
- The chase scene that follows is intercut with brief vignettes showing the bank officials glorying in the publicity the robbery has created.
- Minus the film interaction, however, the opus suffered from overwrought verbiage and meandering vignettes.
- Up until two weeks ago, he painted and cranked out brief, autobiographical vignettes - one a day.
- It contained both vignette and epic, each form suggestive of the other. Times, Sunday Times
- The book is an excellent vignette of some of the major debates in science.
- The vignette, with its quartet of bare-chested musclemen around a poker table, their biceps and pectorals effectively lit by the low-hanging overhead fixture, is funny and provocative.
- A lack of narrative drive leaves the reader with piecemeal vignettes.
- This simple plot is developed masterfully through a narrative technique which employs a series of vignettes giving an appropriately hazy yet sublime sense of situation and setting.
