lineaments
Example Sentences
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“A number of faults and lineaments have been mapped in the range, with no known earthquakes on any of them,” says Hubbard.
From National Geographic ● Sep. 11, 2023
Behind the attention-grabbing debate is a deeper drama of the individual spirit that the actor is invited to endow with his or her own lineaments.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 15, 2019
“The whole book is an act of gratitude. It is a fantastic privilege to be in a place in which limbs, features, smells, the lineaments and presence of the people are so powerful.”
From Washington Post ● Mar. 17, 2017
When Victorian England was up in arms over Charles Darwin’s newly published “On the Origin of Species,” the wife of the bishop of Worcester, having taken in the theory’s lineaments, was properly mortified.
From Salon ● Mar. 5, 2016
He might well be a little shocked at the irregularity of my lineaments, his own being so harmonious.
From "Jane Eyre" by Charlotte Brontë
