lineaments
Example Sentences
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Adrienne Walker, who plays Miriam, Dan’s estranged wife, and Charlotte MacLeod, who plays Violet, Dan’s disaffected daughter, endow their characters with more lineaments than the book provides.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 22, 2026
“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
“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
As Mr. Gitney and Bono descended, I could see in the lineaments of their faces that the ride of hours had not been passed in idleness, but rather marked by contest of will.
From "The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party" by M.T. Anderson
