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silhouette

[sil-oo-et] / ˌsɪl uˈɛt /


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At Chanel, for example, creative director Matthieu Blazy introduced a new silhouette with very long handles that starts at $3,975.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 24, 2026

Ballet flats are back in vogue, and that’s prompted some unlikely companies to hop on the bandwagon with their own riffs on the classic shoe silhouette.

From MarketWatch ● Aug. 15, 2026

He saw Bori’s flickering silhouette gripping the bars.

From Slate ● Aug. 11, 2026

Then, if I dive deeper into Japanese culture, I think about the most iconic silhouette, which for me is a kimono.

From BBC ● Jun. 29, 2026

Then I see the silhouette of somebody standing up in the front row.

From "Shine!" by J.J. and Chris Grabenstein

But they couldn't see the silhouettes on the slope.

From BBC ● Sep. 11, 2026

They have some of the coolest colors and silhouettes and they come to life through animation.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 11, 2026

The label said the collection sought to upend "traditional notions of chic" and rework historical silhouettes.

From Barron's ● Sep. 10, 2026

“Many of them have been stretched into new silhouettes of the Samba, for example, into both ballerinas, into mules, into Mary Janes.”

From MarketWatch ● Aug. 15, 2026

There’s graffiti of two silhouettes on the wall with the air pumps for bike tires.

From "They Both Die at the End" by Adam Silvera

Kent turned to illustrator Alex Juhasz to create the handmade book, drawing inspiration from the eerie silhouetted animation of German filmmaker Lotte Reiniger from the 1920s.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 25, 2026

The DJ was silhouetted by a large window display of a gigantic, human-sized plastic re-creation of Raising Cane’s chicken tenders and crinkle-cut fries being dipped into a tub of Cane’s Sauce.

From Slate ● Aug. 24, 2026

Its glacial flatness doesn’t lend itself to crusades, or to impressive scenes like a man on horseback silhouetted against the sunset.

From Salon ● Aug. 9, 2026

As old as the invention of photography, rayographs—negative, silhouetted photographic prints made by placing objects directly onto light-sensitive paper—are more commonly known as photograms.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 27, 2025

“It’s only a dream,” Conor said to himself in the backyard, looking up at the monster silhouetted against the moon in the night sky.

From "A Monster Calls" by Patrick Ness

“The glare and the sunlight was kind of silhouetting him, so I didn’t see his face,” the witness, Capt. Neda K. Othman of the U.S.

From New York Times ● Oct. 28, 2022

Occasionally he would lean forward, silhouetting himself entirely but for some unruly wisps of gray hair, which glowed like a nimbus.

From New York Times ● Dec. 15, 2020

The photo captured Watkins’s image by silhouetting his head against an illuminated tree.

From Washington Post ● Mar. 12, 2015

You see it's enough to bring tears to the eyesby silhouetting trees,winter boughs spidery on mist-like white skiestwitched in a breeze.

From The Guardian ● Feb. 18, 2013

Tally gazed down at the familiar skyline, the slender trails of fireworks silhouetting the party towers and mansions.

From "Uglies" by Scott Westerfeld




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