limn

Example Sentences

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Who better to help us limn out these feelings of disgust, rage and desolation right now?

From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 19, 2025

Such moments of insight and empathy limn Darraj’s novel, shining through the sadness and tension of her characters’ lives.

From Seattle Times • Jan. 22, 2024

There’s not a limit Negrón can’t limn into music.

From Washington Post • Jan. 21, 2021

To hear a superb rising artist in the role, 24 hours after hearing Ms. Graham limn the stages of a woman’s life, was a poignant juxtaposition, but also a lovely one.

From New York Times • Feb. 6, 2020

Cristiana could also limn with skill, painting lifelike birds and flowers and faces I could recognize as those of Gertrude and her ladies.

From "Ophelia" by Lisa Klein