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

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

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