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
After the kids are dropped at school, I take a circuitous route back home, to trace the lineaments of the past in the bricks and pavements of this familiar acre of London.
From Washington Post ● Mar. 4, 2021
Jeff and Russell, whose character is more layered, deserve a few more realistic lineaments.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 29, 2019
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
