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How to use limn in a sentence

Looking for sentences and phrases with the word limn? Here are some examples.

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With the addition of two crescents for eyes, they limn a portrait of a sad President George W. Bush.
The idealized grid of fairness cannot limn the contours of these deep existential debts.
But she could not wipe out the king's majesty with that sponge nor alter one lineament of the portrait she had taken ten years to limn.
But the more illuminating contests are those where a candidate does campaign, because that's where we can limn a stronger connection between the effort and the outcome.
As I listened to Mancuso limn the marvels unfolding beneath our feet, it occurred to me that plants do have a secret life, and it is even stranger and more wonderful than the one described by Tompkins and Bird.
Examples from Classical Literature
It is not possible in a chapter, a book, or a five-foot shelf to limn all that is even of cursory interest.
Somehow the arches and curves of its branches seemed to limn a pattern so dreadful that his heart beat faster as he gazed upon it.
There were no longer these telling situations to limn which spoke for themselves, and without straw, bricks are not to be made.
I fear it is not possible to limn so many persons in so small a tablet as the compass of our plays afford.
As I have sketched an ideal parlour, so would I limn a bedroom I have seen.
That holy glow was attic light by which she watched him limn the son of God.
How we transpose and dislocate while we limn in aerial colours!
So there are few writers as well situated as Pacult to limn the history of the Beam family and its most significant contribution to American whiskey-making, Jim Beam Bourbon.
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