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Example sentences for "delineates"

Lexicographically close words:
delimitation; delimited; delimiting; delineate; delineated; delineating; delineation; delineations; delineative; delineator
  1. His knights may be unreal and quixotic, but he delineates his characters with the irresistible touch of a poet, and his work displays noble thoughts and depth of feeling.

  2. The artist still delineates what he sees, but he sees more truly, because more sympathetically.

  3. There is nothing in these two poets that can compare with the passionate heat and hatred, the boundless bitterness with which Shakespeare delineates and pursues his Cressida.

  4. Looking at him as his companions describe him, as he delineates himself 'mutato nomine,' the chances of success would have seemed to all but truly prophetic eyes very doubtful, if not decidedly against him.

  5. He delineates himself so perfectly in his various writings that the careful reader sees his nature just as it was in all its essentials, and has little more to learn than those human accidents which individualize him in space and time.

  6. He seeks and finds a curious phenomenon in the world of reality, delineates it, and in the process of reproduction imparts to it some of his own life; but he never regards it as anything but the curious phenomenon.

  7. A perambulator which records distances and delineates a profile, as of a road.

  8. He considered them devoid of activity, genius, and intelligence; their countenance, he delineates as plump and pleasing.

  9. He delineates character with great clearness and power; his speeches are noble rhetorical compositions; his sentences are rhythmical cadences.

  10. We set our dividers at five of the spaces on the line e f and from g as a center sweep the circle j, which delineates the outer surface of our cylinder shell.

  11. The human belief fancies 310:3 that it delineates thought on matter, but what is matter?

  12. He is essentially a sculptor of the intimate emotions; he delineates passion as a psychologist; and while we think of him as a cyclops wielding a huge hammer destructively, he is often ardent in his search of subtle nuance.

  13. Not that there is offence intended in his badly huddled nudes; he only delineates in simple, naked fashion the horrors of some undressed humans.

  14. A fair representation of a chairing scene is given as the second of a series of eight plates which, under the title of “Robin’s Progress,” satirically delineates the career of Sir Robert Walpole.

  15. Hearthstone tales keyed to the mood and using the brush stroke that delineates this especial circle would be unmistakable in their distinction.

  16. The first part, taken ostensibly in Venice, delineates the festival spirit of the people on the bridges and in gondolas.

  17. Ideality is the canvas, and imagination the brush with which Love delineates the beauties of the adored.

  18. Schiller delineates the man who is complete in his own strength, and, a man of iron, is tried by circumstances; for this reason Schiller was great only in the historical drama.

  19. Milan, and delineates the extensive rapids of the Miss.

  20. I-25] Pike delineates "Sand Bank" on his map directly opposite the mouth of Iowa r.

  21. The pictures of South American life which he delineates with enthusiastic unction, are soft and sunny, presenting a delicious profusion of enchantments.

  22. Nothing, too, can be more splendid than the description of the tropics as Mr. Tennyson delineates them, but a sailor would not have felt the tropics in that manner.

  23. It delineates that perfection which the imagination suggests, and to which as a limit the present system of divine Providence actually tends.

  24. It is in these writings he delineates himself; he reflects his tastes, his desires, his humours, his amours, and even his defects.

  25. Up in the office Mr. Scalper has reached the letter of a correspondent which appears to give him particular pleasure, for he delineates the character with a beaming smile of satisfaction.

  26. To afford Hogan a similar opportunity, he decides not to haul the bottle up immediately, but to leave it in his custody while he delineates a character.


  27. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "delineates" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.