How to Use line drawing in a Sentence

line drawing

noun

• The filled-in oval for the Petitioner had a line drawn through it.
  — Laura Vozzella, Washington Post, 4 Jan. 2018
• On this day, Arpaio's lines drew laughter and applause across the room.
  — Yvonne Wingett Sanchez, azcentral, 6 July 2018
• All the works stem from an intricate line drawing of a face Michel made in 2016.
  — Cate McQuaid, BostonGlobe.com, 24 May 2023
• My childhood would always have a line drawn through it, the before and the after.
  — Meghan Cox Gurdon, WSJ, 2 Mar. 2018
• Carlile raised her phone to show me a photo of a tiny gray tabby with tired eyes and a mouth like a child’s shaky line drawing.
  — New York Times, 1 Apr. 2021
• Several Democrats said they were surprised by the sharp line drawn by the black caucus.
  — Washington Post, 30 July 2019
• Some of the line drawing that the tax law seems to require can seem artificial.
  — Robert W. Wood, Forbes, 5 Oct. 2022
• Some of the location data came in the form of boundary files, which have lines drawn around the borders of structures or parcels.
  — Matt Stiles, www.latimes.com, 9 Sep. 2019
• The graffiti also included the word Jews with a line drawn through it.
  — sun-sentinel.com, 8 Oct. 2019
• Its 80 pages all have chic line drawings of flowers just waiting to be colored.
  — Maya Polton, Parents, 21 Nov. 2023
• On the cover is a line drawing of a little boy sitting in his father’s lap and smiling up at him.
  — Beth Thames , al, 17 June 2020
• On the snack bar is a fresh bit of tagging: a black line drawing of a man smoking marijuana with a can of beer by his side.
  — San Diego Union-Tribune, 14 Nov. 2021
• No distinction was made, no line drawn, between the real and the imagined, the spontaneous and the scripted.
  — Rory Smith, New York Times, 11 Jan. 2018
• So there are times losses can have a straight line drawn directly to that conflicting aim.
  — San Diego Union-Tribune, 2 Aug. 2019
• Taking a firm line draws a bellicose response from the Kremlin.
  — Madeline Roache, Time, 12 Nov. 2019
• Or the inexplicable black line drawn down the center of her forehead?
  — Meirav Devash, Allure, 10 Sep. 2017
• In July, the line drew an average of 1,460 daily riders.
  — oregonlive.com, 21 Aug. 2019
• Then the researcher uploaded a simple line drawing of a foot taking a step, and asked the model to pinpoint the moment in the transcript that the drawing refers to.
  — Richard Nieva, Forbes, 15 Feb. 2024
• The distance scored is related to the construction point (K-point) which is a line drawn in the landing area to serve as a target for competitors to reach.
  — Charlotte Carroll, SI.com, 6 Dec. 2017
• Bakker sized each photo, created a line drawing and transferred it to the panel, painting over it.
  — Janice Neumann, chicagotribune.com, 5 Mar. 2022
• Any straight line drawn from one focus to the circumference of the ellipse is reflected to the other focus.
  — Quanta Magazine, 30 June 2016
• That line drew blood: Mr. Johnson’s purge the previous day has left the Conservative Party in a state of near-civil war.
  — Mark Landler, New York Times, 4 Sep. 2019
• But PayPal isn’t just banking on its current product line drawing in the dollars.
  — Q.ai - Make Genius Money Moves, Forbes, 10 Nov. 2021
• In other states, courts stepped in to limit partisan line drawing.
  — David Lautersenior Editor, Los Angeles Times, 22 Apr. 2022
• At that time, the MDTA issued a map that showed thick lines drawn all up and down the bay, indicating potential crossings.
  — Pamela Wood, baltimoresun.com, 27 Aug. 2019
• The look involves a diagonal line drawn directly through the middle of your nail, and much like actual cat eyes, the lines vary.
  — Leah Prinzivalli, Allure, 4 Oct. 2019
• Not quite a solid line Organizers promised 45 miles of support, a solid red line drawn all the way across the Valley’s southern end.
  — Perry Vandell, azcentral, 25 Apr. 2018
• This illusion holds when the horizontal or vertical lines are on the dress of a line drawing of a woman.
  — Seriously Science, Discover Magazine, 21 Apr. 2014
• There’s a watercolor of a couple arguing in a restaurant in rich reds and greens, line drawings of friends and people on the beach, and two self-portraits.
  — Zing Tsjeng, Vogue, 20 Mar. 2024
• In Robot Dreams, the bold clarity of the line drawings matches the clean simplicity of the plot — which, perhaps ironically, fires our imaginations even further.
  — Bilge Ebiri, Vulture, 31 May 2024

Last Updated: 7 Dec 2024