Lined
[laɪnd]
Definition
(adj.) bordered by a line of things; 'tree lined streets' .
(adj.) having a lining or a liner; often used in combination; 'a lined skirt'; 'a silk-lined jacket' .
(adj.) (used especially of skin) marked by lines or seams; 'their lined faces were immeasurably sad'; 'a seamed face' .
Editor: Thea--From WordNet
Definition
(imp. & p. p.) of Line
Typist: Rachel
Examples
- The arbour was an arch in the wall, lined with ivy; it contained a rustic seat. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
- It's not her fault if everybody don't know it now, growled Trenor, flushed with the struggle of getting into his fur-lined coat. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
- The boys had white umbrellas heavily lined with dark green. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- Ten cars were lined up side by side under the long shed. Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
- No, sir, Dr. Becher is an Englishman, and there isn't a man in the parish who has a better-lined waistcoat. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
- These latter rolls were also face-lined with chilled-iron plates; but, unlike the larger ones, were positively driven, reducing the rock to pieces of about one-half-inch size, or smaller. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- That break is a dell--a deep, hollow cup, lined with turf as green and short as the sod of this common. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- His animals, too, had been starved, and their carcasses lined the road from Cumberland Gap, and far back towards Lexington, Ky. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- The day was warm but he had on a sheep's-wool-lined short leather jacket buttoned up to the neck. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- As to the shops and the locality: The street was lined with rather old buildings and poor tenements. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- The house was an old-fashioned, wide-spread, oak-beamed brick building, with a fine lime-lined avenue leading up to it. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
- Coarse, rough, rugged, often distorted on the outside, within they are lined with smooth, softly-glowing, iridescent mother of pearl. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- The evening hunt-dress is red, lined with white; and the buttons and whole style of it are very becoming. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
- Lined with sheet-iron. Charles Dickens. Oliver Twist.
- A sort of tiled veranda extended along one side of it, lined by several windows and two doors. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
- I alighted upon the soft moss easily and without mishap, and turning saw my enemies lined up along the further wall. Edgar Rice Burroughs. A Princess of Mars.
- We emerged at last into a small road, lined with old, gloomy houses, which led us into Manchester Street, and so to Blandford Street. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
- Childers (rather deeply lined in the jaws by daylight), and the Little Wonder of Scholastic Equitation, and in a word, all the company. Charles Dickens. Hard Times.
- From his shoulders depended a short cape of white fur lined with brilliant scarlet silk. Edgar Rice Burroughs. A Princess of Mars.
- The latter and other acid processes were not successful until cement-lined digesters were invented to withstand their corroding action. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- Cupboards and bookcases lined the walls. Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.
- D--me, if my neck-handkercher an't lined with beer! Charles Dickens. Oliver Twist.
- He was looking worried and depressed, with tired eyes and a lined forehead. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
- Mrs. Peniston was a small plump woman, with a colourless skin lined with trivial wrinkles. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
- As we drove up, we found the railings in front of the house lined by a curious crowd. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
- They came to a village that lined along the road. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- Grapplers and boarders lined the contiguous rails of each. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
- It is lined with cocoanut matting and had taken no impression of any kind. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
- On either side were the doorways of the various apartments which lined it. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
- The high collar, and the inside of the cloak, was lined with dark fur. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
Typist: Rachel