contour

Example Sentences

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Yes, the contour palette is back, though Patrick says “no-makeup makeup” is still very much here.

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 8, 2025

Sometimes they are used to contour or shape the nose or lips.

From BBC • Dec. 3, 2025

And even that contour was ever-changing, different depending on what form Mansfield took on to please the world.

From Salon • Jun. 27, 2025

Yeah, the Chinese government is definitely mining my data, but so is Mark Zuckerberg, and Zuckerberg’s Facebook never gave me the perfect step-by-step tutorial of how to contour my face for a truly flawless finish.

From Slate • Jan. 16, 2025

So from this one experiment we learned the masses of the Earth, the Sun, the Moon, the other planets and their moons, and got contour lines into the bargain–not bad for a summer’s work.

From "A Short History of Nearly Everything" by Bill Bryson