How to Use line drawing in a Sentence

line drawing

noun
  • On this day, Arpaio's lines drew laughter and applause across the room.
    — Yvonne Wingett Sanchez, azcentral, 6 July 2018
  • The three line drawings on the right are by Juan Luis Buñuel.
    — Wendy Goodman, Curbed, 28 Jan. 2025
  • My childhood would always have a line drawn through it, the before and the after.
    — Meghan Cox Gurdon, WSJ, 2 Mar. 2018
  • Edges were lines drawn between the nodes, each representing a call.
    — Barton Gellman, Wired, 24 May 2020
  • Some of the line drawing that the tax law seems to require can seem artificial.
    — Robert W. Wood, Forbes, 5 Oct. 2022
  • So there are times losses can have a straight line drawn directly to that conflicting aim.
    — San Diego Union-Tribune, 2 Aug. 2019
  • Carlile raised her phone to show me a photo of a tiny gray tabby with tired eyes and a mouth like a child’s shaky line drawing.
    — New York Times, 1 Apr. 2021
  • Several Democrats said they were surprised by the sharp line drawn by the black caucus.
    — Washington Post, 30 July 2019
  • Its 80 pages all have chic line drawings of flowers just waiting to be colored.
    — Maya Polton, Parents, 21 Nov. 2023
  • In other states, courts stepped in to limit partisan line drawing.
    — David Lautersenior Editor, Los Angeles Times, 22 Apr. 2022
  • On the cover is a line drawing of a little boy sitting in his father’s lap and smiling up at him.
    — Beth Thames , al, 17 June 2020
  • The graffiti also included the word Jews with a line drawn through it.
    — sun-sentinel.com, 8 Oct. 2019
  • Or the inexplicable black line drawn down the center of her forehead?
    — Meirav Devash, Allure, 10 Sep. 2017
  • Taking a firm line draws a bellicose response from the Kremlin.
    — Madeline Roache, Time, 12 Nov. 2019
  • Some of the location data came in the form of boundary files, which have lines drawn around the borders of structures or parcels.
    — Matt Stiles, www.latimes.com, 9 Sep. 2019
  • All the works stem from an intricate line drawing of a face Michel made in 2016.
    — Cate McQuaid, BostonGlobe.com, 24 May 2023
  • But that line drew skepticism from some senators on the committtee.
    — Houston Chronicle, 20 Mar. 2018
  • Bakker sized each photo, created a line drawing and transferred it to the panel, painting over it.
    — Janice Neumann, chicagotribune.com, 5 Mar. 2022
  • Don’t forget plenty of line drawings — the invention should be captured from all sides, clearly.
    — Stephen Key, Forbes, 17 Oct. 2024
  • The dark brown sole curved into a slim heel that narrowed on its way down, leaving the black upper to read almost like a line drawing against her foot.
    — Maggie Clancy, Footwear News, 3 Sep. 2019
  • This illusion holds when the horizontal or vertical lines are on the dress of a line drawing of a woman.
    — Seriously Science, Discover Magazine, 21 Apr. 2014
  • No distinction was made, no line drawn, between the real and the imagined, the spontaneous and the scripted.
    — Rory Smith, New York Times, 11 Jan. 2018
  • Any straight line drawn from one focus to the circumference of the ellipse is reflected to the other focus.
    — Quanta Magazine, 30 June 2016
  • But PayPal isn’t just banking on its current product line drawing in the dollars.
    — Q.ai - Make Genius Money Moves, Forbes, 10 Nov. 2021
  • The look involves a diagonal line drawn directly through the middle of your nail, and much like actual cat eyes, the lines vary.
    — Leah Prinzivalli, Allure, 4 Oct. 2019
  • On the opening shift, Anze Kopitar’s top line drew a Penguins penalty.
    — Jack Harris, Los Angeles Times, 26 Feb. 2020
  • The line drew raucous applause from Republican lawmakers in the room.
    — Josh Hafner, USA TODAY, 30 Jan. 2018
  • Instead of one large photo of a hummingbird, the photo was cropped into many pieces, containing only parts of the line drawing.
    — Carly Miller, Forbes, 29 Sep. 2024
  • Draw a design freehand, or download and print a line drawing from an open source site (like Vecteezy) onto transparency paper.
    — Kathy Barnes, Better Homes & Gardens, 23 Feb. 2021
  • Yet Scorsese’s distinction is a stark line drawn not merely on the basis of intention but also of power.
    — Richard Brody, The New Yorker, 7 Nov. 2019

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