limned
Example Sentences
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The latter film is one of Keaton’s lesser-known but still brilliantly limned stone-faced satires, in this case involving cowpokes and its star’s tender feelings for a milk cow.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 17, 2025
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 jagged horizon was limned with a coronalike glow that flickered and pulsed before my eyes.
From "Into Thin Air" by Jon Krakauer
