limned
Example Sentences
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Michael Spyres’s clarion tenor and Brian Mulligan’s warm baritone limned the Emperor and Barak; Nina Stemme’s register leaps brought the Nurse to ferocious life.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 8, 2026
One wishes he had limned that division with a sharper pen.
From Washington Post ● Dec. 15, 2021
He instead limned the experience of a Russian Orthodox vigil into an artwork.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 24, 2021
Occasionally a more human presence is limned, intimating an elaborately costumed Mardi Gras celebrant.
From New York Times ● Sep. 10, 2020
The shifting lamplight limned their stony scales, and shimmering motes of jade and scarlet and gold swam in the air around them, like courtiers around a king.
From "A Game of Thrones" by George R.R. Martin
