limned
Example Sentences
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Riccardo Frizza’s fluid conducting drew out the score’s long bel canto lines and limned its propulsive rhythmic structure, and his flexible support of the singers made every aria and ensemble breathe and soar.
From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 8, 2025
There are images in “Uta Barth: Peripheral Vision” of curtain hems limned in light, a lamp hanging in otherwise empty space, the edge of a window frame, a horizon line of sofa cushions, distant trees.
From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 29, 2022
Liberty, Liberty, Liberty—the word was limned into the ears of the thousands who stood watching and applauding.
From Slate • Jun. 20, 2020
In The Wall Street Journal, Heidi Waleson wrote that Mr. Mattei “never made an ugly sound as he limned Wozzeck’s deepening anguish and the progression of his madness.”
From New York Times • Jan. 3, 2020
His long face floated before her, limned in tongues of red and orange, appearing and disappearing again, a shadow half-seen behind a fluttering curtain.
From "A Dance with Dragons" by George R. R. Martin
