Example sentences for: contours

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

  • 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).

  • 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.

  • The best time to visit is early morning, when the rising sun lights up the contours of the statues, giving them an eerie, lifelike quality.

  • In fact, the histology of the sections was preserved after fixation (compare Figures 1Cand 1D) when viewed with phase-contrast optics, which depends on refraction and diffraction, indicating that the edges and contours were not altered.

  • Among several British editorials on NATO's birthday, the Times ' warned Blair against trying to woo America with "the moral fervour which comes so naturally to him," since what was most needed to sway U.S. opinion was "an informed case based on strategic interest, an argument for committing US troops that explains why the future contours of European peace are being decided in the Balkans."


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