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silhouette

[sil-oo-et] / ˌsɪl uˈɛt /


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Inside the black silhouette of a farmhouse, a pristine white washing machine appears at an almost monumental scale, set against flat fields of saturated color.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 7, 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

La Liga 2 side Real Valladolid's home shirt uses the club's traditional stripes, with a silhouette showing the Province of Valladolid stitched into the kit.

From BBC ● Aug. 9, 2026

The light tortured him and Ben turned his head toward the lit-up back wall where he saw the grotesque silhouette of his head.

From "The Great Santini" by Pat Conroy

Kotsoni says the items to look out for are "draped garments, breezy materials and lots of bohemian and flowy silhouettes".

From BBC ● Sep. 21, 2026

With all of the slinky silhouettes and wearable neutrals, I had a passing thought that we might be seeing the Rick Owens-ification of Coach.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 16, 2026

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

From Barron's ● Sep. 10, 2026

I think that’s what I look for when I style as well, and building shapes and silhouettes and textures and colors.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 2, 2026

In the western outposts of the Elmuthaleth—Alkonost and others—they watched for the heat-distorted silhouettes of camel trains to emerge from the emptiness as they always had, but they did not.

From "Strange the Dreamer" by Laini Taylor

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

Bold purple and magenta animations of galloping warriors silhouetted against rustling pines cover entire walls.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 7, 2026

Cinematographer Michael Bauman puts together a gorgeous, silhouetted shot of St. Carlos’ skateboarding scouts vaulting over rooftops in front of a building lit up to look like the American flag.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 24, 2025

The man’s wife came to the door and stood silhouetted against the pale light of a kerosene lamp.

From "Black Like Me" by John Howard Griffin

“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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