limn
Example Sentences
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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
Telgemeier is not, in a book aimed at third to eighth graders, out to solve the mystery of this rise or limn its sociological roots.
From New York Times • Sep. 17, 2019
For Jentleson and his colleagues, part of the work of the Moscow Project is to limn a possible conspiracy without falling into conspiracy theorizing.
From Slate • Jun. 19, 2017
Like much of Pittman’s work, they limn the weird and wonderful within an aesthetic of graphic overload.
From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 21, 2016
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
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Ophelia
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