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
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
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
