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
Haring limned his oval head, the topknot above a receding hairline, a pair of prominent ears and eyes staring out from behind black-rimmed eyeglasses.
From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 6, 2023
One wishes he had limned that division with a sharper pen.
From Washington Post • Dec. 15, 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
