SILHOUETTE in a Sentence
Learn SILHOUETTE from example sentences; some of them are from classic books. These examples are selected from a corpus with 300,000 sentences, including classic works and current mainstream media. Some sentences also link to their contexts.
12 example sentences for SILHOUETTE, such as:
1. Soon the bombers would return, black silhouettes against a pale sky.
2. It was the Indian, whose dark silhouette appeared suddenly upon his blind.
3. Certain nocturnal wading birds produce these silhouettes among the marshes.
4. The silhouette of the bare tree on the hill was clear against the winter sky.
2. It was the Indian, whose dark silhouette appeared suddenly upon his blind.
3. Certain nocturnal wading birds produce these silhouettes among the marshes.
4. The silhouette of the bare tree on the hill was clear against the winter sky.
Search Quotes from Classic Book Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen |
Meanings and Examples of SILHOUETTE
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silhouette
v. project on a background, such as a screen, like a silhouette
n. a drawing of the outline of an object; filled in with some uniform color
Classic Sentence:
1 The sun was low across the new-plowed fields and the tall woods across the river were looming blackly in silhouette.
2 Everything, the night, his silhouette, the cautious-treading future, was as undistinguishable as though she were drifting bodiless in a Fourth Dimension.
3 His rooms were brilliantly lit, and, even as I looked up, I saw his tall, spare figure pass twice in a dark silhouette against the blind.
4 It was the Indian, whose dark silhouette appeared suddenly upon his blind.
The Return of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context Highlight In IX. THE ADVENTURE OF THE THREE STUDENTS
Context Highlight In IX. THE ADVENTURE OF THE THREE STUDENTS
5 Entering the gate and passing the shrubs, the silhouette of a house rose to view, black, low, and rather long; but the guiding light shone nowhere.
6 As we have just said, on catching sight of that black silhouette standing on guard at the angle of the Rue Droit-Mur and the Rue Petit-Picpus, he recoiled.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
Context Highlight In BOOK 5: CHAPTER III—TO WIT, THE PLAN OF PARIS IN 1727
Context Highlight In BOOK 5: CHAPTER III—TO WIT, THE PLAN OF PARIS IN 1727
7 He seated himself on a wooden bench, with his back against a decrepit vine; he gazed at the stars, past the puny and stunted silhouettes of his fruit-trees.
8 Certain nocturnal wading birds produce these silhouettes among the marshes.
9 By this time they had passed beyond Frome's earshot and he could only follow the shadowy pantomime of their silhouettes as they continued to move along the crest of the slope above him.
10 The face was turned half-round, and the effect was that of one of those black silhouettes which our grandparents loved to frame.
Example Sentence:
1 The silhouette of the bare tree on the hill was clear against the winter sky.
2 Soon the bombers would return, black silhouettes against a pale sky.