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

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

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