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Example sentences for "white line"

  • On the fore wings the dark, slender and wavy cross lines are more distinct in some specimens than in others, and occasionally the blackish blotch on the front margin is traversed by a white line, sometimes by two lines.

  • The caterpillar is pale green, clouded with a darker tint, and has a white line on each side of the back.

  • Its colour is yellow or grey, with a brown dorsal stripe, a white line on each side, and pale oblique lines near the former.

  • Near the hind margin, and parallel with it, is a white line, bent sharply into the form of a W, just on the anal side of the middle.

  • The eye-like spots on its fifth and sixth segments are black, and each contains a brown spot surrounded by a white line.

  • Bewick may have been led into the use of white line simply by this consideration of the economy of labor, because he engraved his own designs, and was directly sensible of the waste of labor involved in the old method.

  • This change was brought about by the invention of white line, as it is called, which was first used by Bewick.

  • White line was a new mechanical mode of obtaining color.

  • His lids half closed as his lips tightened to a thin, white line.

  • His lips were pressed into a fine, white line, and there was a look of haunted worry in his eyes.

  • His lips tightened into a fine, white line.

  • A striking instance of the use of white line is seen in the title page "Pomerium de Tempore," printed by Johann Otmar, Augsburg, as early as 1502.

  • The shoe must be straight, firm, air-tight, its nail holes directly over the white line, and its branches far enough from the branches of the frog to permit the passage of a foot pick.

  • In the latter case, besides the swelling and distortion of the haw, there is this peculiarity, that in the midst of the red inflamed mass there appears a white line or mass formed by the exposed edge of the ulcerating cartilage.

  • A yellowish-white line, beginning at bill and passing below eye, merges into the pale yellow of the bird underneath.

  • Yellow spot before the eye, and a white line, apparently running through it, passes backward to the nape.

  • Very different it must have been in the old coaching days, when they toiled along the road, which we had traced in a dim, white line in the far distance.

  • We watched and waited till behind the white line appears a dark one, which grew and grew, until Long Island and Fire Island lighthouse are plainly visible.

  • At two o'clock a white line of surf is seen on the horizon.

  • The practice is now, however, so general, that in many modern wood-cuts a white line is improperly seen surrounding every figure.

  • The first step in executing such a subject is to cut a white line on each side of the pencilled lines which are to remain in relief of the height of the plane surface of the block, and to form the impression when it is printed.

  • The caterpillar is greyish with black warts from which arise tufts of hairs, blackish on the back and pale greyish on the sides; a white line on the back, and one on the sides.

  • In colour it is ochreous with a pinkish tinge; a pale brownish plate on first and last rings, each edged with blackish and that on the first ring traversed by a white line; head pale brown, glossy.

  • This moth is distinguished from that last referred to by the black spots in and just below the blotch at the tip of the fore wings; the blotch itself is dull reddish, merging outwardly into greyish, and is intersected by a white line.

  • The caterpillar is thorny, greyish, with black spots on the back, intersected by a white line.

  • The caterpillar is of a deep green colour, having on each side a white line, marked with yellow and orange.

  • Beneath, the wings are shaded with greyish tints, crossed by a white line on each wing, and having two orange spots at the inner corner of the hind wing.

  • Hart and Lessing describe the presence of the "white line" of Fraenkel, which is referred to at length in treating of the symptomatology of human scurvy.

  • Roentgenograms of the bones may show the "white line" at the epiphyses first described by Fraenkel (Fig.

  • This "white line" has been noted likewise by Talbot, Dodd and Peterson in the scurvy of monkeys.

  • Breast black, in form of crescent A yellowish-white line, beginning at bill and passing below eye, merges into the pale yellow of the bird underneath.

  • It is this horn which forms the 'white line.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "white line" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.


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