Example sentences for: contours

How can you use “contours” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • Nevertheless, the resolution afforded by light microscopy is insufficient to rule out the possibility that fixation altered surface contours, thereby contributing to the loss of parallel orientation.

  • Even Chatterbox's guru, Charles "Bhagwan" Peters of the Washington Monthly, one of the few journalists who gave credence to the Gennifer Flowers tapes early on, argues that the voters rightly don't care much about Flytrap because they've known the rough contours of Clinton's character for years.

  • Even New York City, where he waited out World War II, takes on cozy contours for Léger, who was quickly hired by Nelson Rockefeller to decorate his New York apartment (the fireplace surround is in the MoMA show).

  • It is the prime virtue of Alan Wolfe's new book, One Nation, After All , that it grasps the contours of what he calls this "mature" middle class.

  • It is an explosion of mosaics, tiles, stained glass, enamel, sculpture, and carving — a wildly audacious outpouring of contours and colors.


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