Silhouettes
[,sɪlu:'ets]
Examples
- He showed me the silhouettes before he pasted them on white paper and handed them to the girls. Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
- Brilliant arc lamps, rivaling the sun in power, make night into day, and produce along our streets coruscations, silhouettes, and dancing shadows in spectacular and unceasing pageants. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- Two girls were posing and he cut their silhouettes together, snipping very fast and looking at them, his head on one side. Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
- People of an artistic turn of mind had been in the habit of making what were called silhouettes. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- An old man was cutting silhouettes under an arcade. Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
- The face was turned half-round, and the effect was that of one of those black silhouettes which our grandparents loved to frame. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
- The girls went away looking at their silhouettes and laughing. Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
Edited by Cecilia