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

Behind the attention-grabbing debate is a deeper drama of the individual spirit that the actor is invited to endow with his or her own lineaments.

From Los Angeles Times • May 15, 2019

These are the lineaments of the thing called experience.

From Washington Post • May 11, 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

He might well be a little shocked at the irregularity of my lineaments, his own being so harmonious.

From "Jane Eyre" by Charlotte Brontë