outlines

Example Sentences

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When you enter the house, the kitchen faces an open dining room and living room bathed in natural light thanks to the shifting rooflines that create transitions instead of walls.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 26, 2024

The property was built more than 170 years ago in a Scottish baronial style, a type of elaborate architecture featuring complex rooflines with turrets and fortress-like battlements.

From BBC • Jan. 24, 2024

Entire towns were submerged to the rooflines, and thousands of animals died in a large national park now under Russian occupation.

From Washington Times • Jun. 11, 2023

Just before Friday’s reception, we gathered for orientation in its main assembly hall, a crane-your-neck wonder of angled rooflines visible above a mezzanine library.

From New York Times • Mar. 6, 2023

To the east, the ancient church spires and peaked rooflines of central Berlin rose above a sea of trees turned red and gold in the crisp autumn air.

From "The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics" by Daniel James Brown