Tikibu: pronunciation dictionary with use examples

Word: outlines
IPA transcription: ['aʊtl,aɪnz]
Usage examples
  • Then the outlines of a room etched themselves against the clouded background.
  • To the south the land outlines were hazy with drift, so my dog tour was abandoned.
  • It was composed of trees of moderate height, formed like umbrellas, with exact geometrical outlines.
  • He examined it from top to bottom, though scarcely able to distinguish its outlines in the surrounding darkness.
  • He recognised them, cold in him of death, though the outlines reared higher than the pyramids, and towered up to hide whole groups of stars.
  • Little curved towers and pinnacles, with outlines suggestive of leaping flames, predominate; while the body of the building is in the form of a circle.
  • A dozen Sacramentos had caught the hazy outlines of its rep rays approaching them, head-on, in the twilight, like ghostly pillars reaching into the sky.
  • A dozen Sacramentos had caught the hazy outlines of its rep rays approaching them, head-on, in the twilight, like ghostly pillars reaching into the sky.
  • The engulfing cloth was thin and through it Brion could see the outlines of the Disan's abdomen and rib cage, the clear location of the great nerve ganglion.
  • They were able, after some hours, to make out the outlines of what had once been continents, to see the shadows in valleys which had once held the oceans of Earth....