Shapes of things

Usage examples of contours.

To her amazement, however, the blue rippled and condensed back into the familiar unbreached contours of the bridge.

It wasn't until the familiar contours of Deep Space Nine's operations center appeared across the bridge, and he felt the hard knot of ice in his stomach finally melt, that Sisko realized how much he'd feared his station's complete destruction.

The color contours there were changing, slowly dimming from arctic white in the center to a pale greenish ivory.

Dax broke off, seeing the wider contours of Deep Space Nine's infirmary behind him instead of the Defiant's cramped sickbay.

Dax broke off, seeing the wider contours of Deep Space Nine's infirmary behind him instead of the Defiant 's cramped sickbay.

He had had a problem with Colene, who tended to wear clothing that made her feminine contours too evident.

The contours of the Mandelbrot set fuzzed, becoming more like conventional earthly hills and valleys.

He was a man, and he surely did want to breed with the woman, who was of exactly the contours that men preferred.

After my pupils had adjusted, I made out the waffled contours of a Mercedes grille.

I watched colours give way to contours and worked at shrouding my mind.

The skies darken to grimy bronze, contours of buildings dissolve into the haze, and the vegetation assumes a malignantly fluorescent hue.

The icy contours that anger had etched upon his face began to melt around the edges, softened to slush by a cloudburst of fear.

She guessed this was much farther north and east, but the contours were similar—tortured eroded canyons crossing the prairie like scars of some ancient fight.

The resulting coastline had the horizontal contours of a twisted, many-pointed star, with rounded nubs instead of vertices and edges.

The dark triangle of hair beneath the sheer fabric of her panties couldn't quite disguise the contours of her sex.