How to Use limn in a Sentence

limn

verb

• The candidate is seen from the back, a spotlight limning his head and the fingers on his right hand.
  — WSJ, 18 June 2019
• St. Mary's wrath (according to you) was limned with brimfire.
  — Vanityfair.com, VanityFair.com, 22 Mar. 2017
• In Friday Night Lights, Bissinger limns a dark, downbeat universe.
  — Austin Murphy, SI.com, 25 Oct. 2017
• Both Blixt’s production and MacLeod’s script shine brightest when limning the fierce but fraught friendships among the three women.
  — Kerry Reid, chicagotribune.com, 29 Jan. 2018
• In short, crisply readable chapters, Greenblatt limns a bagful of Shakespeare’s tyrants.
  — Alex Beam, BostonGlobe.com, 2 May 2018
• Over this go juicy tomatoes and cucumber limned with vinegar and olive oil, and finally a scattering of cilantro, dill and raw jalapeños — just a few, but vital.
  — Ligaya Mishan, New York Times, 21 June 2018
• By definition, Wakanda was a concept whose reality could not be limned in the usual ways.
  — Peter Manseau, Washington Post, 7 Mar. 2018
• Her upper body flows in arcs: Her softly curved right hand under her chin echoes the position of her left hand, draped over her leg — together the two arms limning an off-center, tilted heart shape.
  — Rhonda Garelick, The Cut, 14 Feb. 2018
• The contours of their personalities, which up until this point have been carefully limned, are effaced.
  — Peter Rainer, The Christian Science Monitor, 4 Aug. 2017
• Poupaud’s extraordinary performance here limns the ambiguity of men who are not gay with those who felt gay after their abuse.
  — Armond White, National Review, 18 Oct. 2019
• Often, joy limns the border of spiritual ecstasy, and so the poetry here weaves from secular to sacred.
  — Barbara Mahany, chicagotribune.com, 20 Dec. 2017
• The politics of illness—how the profit motive determines life and damage and death; how victim blaming is enshrined; how social norms can disable and kill—have rarely been limned with such clarity and grace.
  — Lidija Haas, Harper's magazine, 28 Oct. 2019
• With her characteristic storytelling brio, Oates limns in her first 125 pages a fraught family that mirrors a fraught community.
  — Wendy Smith, BostonGlobe.com, 13 June 2019
• The choreographer’s characteristic mix of fluid movement and sudden change of direction for this limb or that, effortless lifts that suggest flight, limn the bigger gestures of the music.
  — Mark Swed, latimes.com, 14 July 2019
• Thompson and company are great at limning the circles of hell Schiller created especially for government servants.
  — Tony Adler, Chicago Reader, 7 Mar. 2018
• Whether writing about a brief recipe pamphlet or a dense guide to household management, Tipton-Martin gives each book a generous page or more of comment, limning the biographies of the authors and celebrating their accomplishments.
  — Helen Rosner, The New Yorker, 14 July 2019
• Faleiro, opposite him, beautifully limns a woman whose position between her parents on the one hand and her husband and children on the other becomes untenable because of political events beyond her control.
  — Boyd Van Hoeij, The Hollywood Reporter, 7 Sep. 2019
• The comic desperation of the protagonist is impeccably limned.
  — Charles P. Pierce, Esquire, 19 Mar. 2017
• His songs limn classic Los Angeles gangster rap, but also that city’s kinetically inventive progressive independent scene of the early-to-mid-1990s.
  — Jon Caramanica, New York Times, 16 Apr. 2017
• Yet each bears Becker’s stamp, with impeccably precise narratives, mise-en-scènes of documentary accuracy, and characters both well-limned and inordinately sympathetic.
  — David Mermelstein, WSJ, 1 Aug. 2018

Last Updated: 24 Jul 2024