lineaments

Example Sentences

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“A number of faults and lineaments have been mapped in the range, with no known earthquakes on any of them,” says Hubbard.

From National Geographic • Sep. 11, 2023

The characters have been flecked with a few human lineaments.

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 4, 2021

“The whole book is an act of gratitude. It is a fantastic privilege to be in a place in which limbs, features, smells, the lineaments and presence of the people are so powerful.”

From Washington Post • Mar. 17, 2017

When Victorian England was up in arms over Charles Darwin’s newly published “On the Origin of Species,” the wife of the bishop of Worcester, having taken in the theory’s lineaments, was properly mortified.

From Salon • Mar. 5, 2016

There was no kindness, no gentleness to this departure; nothing human, but rather a degeneration into some demonic substratum of the body that had waited to lay waste to all the lineaments of grace.

From "The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party" by M.T. Anderson