Seen as a shape against a light background

Usage examples of silhouetted.

Seated behind the bench, in tall chairs with split oval tops and silhouetted by the backlight, a dozen members of the club looked down at me.

Devine spoke with Chet Premminger about servicing the plane, she leaned on the hood, staring at what was left of the sunset, a few crimson and orange ribbons in the west, with mesas and gentle mountains silhouetted black like on corny picture postcards.

Its structures were silhouetted and picked out by flames leaping from roofs and through the windows.

Lanternlight from the street silhouetted the bandits and the men trying to fight their way in.

Buildings stood out as darker shadows, and sometimes a human figure silhouetted itself against lamplight.

The bonfire higher up the beach silhouetted the men around it and the boats below, but if there was a watchman, he was asleep in the belly of one of them.

I could draw any conclusion about who they might be, a door in the cannery slid open and a weak, yellow light silhouetted a dozen figures of various sizes and shapes.

Van Meteren sat on the floor, on a thick cushion, cross-legged, relaxed and patient, the black hard curls framing his flat skull silhouetted against the white wall, lit up by a light placed on the floor opposite him.

A gable silhouetted sharply against a dark gray rain cloud, an old woman fed the sparrows throwing an ever-changing shadow-pattern on the cobblestones.

The kid obviously had not seen Kyril Montana: he stopped, silhouetted against the sky, and waved downhill at the horseman riding up and at the other man farther below.

Bright light dazzled their eyes, and they glimpsed a tumble of shapes, silhouetted black against the white.

She awakened once, and a myriad of stars brightened the sky like beacons, and silhouetted the tops of evergreens.

Captain Mapstone sat silhouetted against the night sky, as unmoving as a Weapon, and watching her with an intensity that was disquieting.

He remembered him as he had last seen him, silhouetted by the sun shining through the paper screen of the tiny tea house in his garden.

She could see the dark forms of the sleeping passengers silhouetted against the starlit sky.