Silhouettes

Usage examples of outlines.

She held up her right arm, exhibiting the drowsing golden lizard, the outlines of her latest meal pressing sharp designs against her belly hide.

Todd scrutinized the outlines of the ship as it reached dayside again.

Several fringe carcasses, dried to brittle outlines, were inches from her boot.

Low turtle-backed outlines, with long weapons jutting from their sloped forward plates, the barrels built up from coils or rings, some sort of wave-guide or electromagnetic launcher.

There, more officers, including two whose outlines were female, awaited her.

The kitchen cavern walls were now decorated with outlines of vegetations.

Then, to their right on the shore line, the obvious square outlines of an unnatural formation bulked large.

Regular outlines, mounds, and then straight lines dissecting, forming curious squares where no such regular formations should be.

The outlines were the same, but the bands of different colors covered the familiar contours in puzzling configurations.

And even after a relative calm fell a century later, there was the relentless chafing of the vacuum, boiling surface molecules away one by one until only phantom-thin outlines of the original shape were left.

Quinn could see the outlines of more pods on the other side of the mesh.

Someone had been painting outlines of animals on them, there were paint pots and brushes lying on one of the pods.

She was barrelling through solid greyness, seeing little, receiving sharp outlines of sound.

All he could see was the long thin black trunks and their verdant cone island bases, outlines wavering in the heat and unstable magnification factor.

They had their backs to him, heading for the flight line where the indistinct outlines of the parked McBoeings formed windows into an even graver darkness.