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  • verb Simple past tense and past participle of silhouette.

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Examples

  • Whoever tries to visualize any scene out of the Wessex Novels will be forced to see the figures of the persons concerned "silhouetted" against a formidable skyline.

    Visions and Revisions A Book of Literary Devotions John Cowper Powys 1917

  • Instead, his focus is on the hundreds of fruit bats silhouetted against the dusky sky.

    In Sydney, Unwanted Guests Urged to Find New Belfry David Winning 2011

  • The road soon funnels down between the hills to Corfe Castle, one of the most striking historic sites in the west – shattered stonework silhouetted against the sky as it stands on top of its steep mound, above the village's slate roofs, guarding the gap in the range of hills against intruders from the coast.

    Country diary: Isle of Purbeck 2011

  • It was a lot of riding on the moped, but he liked the terrain — the low hills, the bare mountains, pale blue in the day and silhouetted in the evenings, the vast sky.

    Alba 2009

  • This is Ashley silhouetted in front of one of the flat wall tanks:

    Underwater Adventures « Biodork 2010

  • The vivid orange and black colors associated with the day bring to mind the colors of bare trees silhouetted against the autumn sunset, and the turning of the season towards the coming winter's darker and colder days.

    Grove Harris: Halloween and Samhain: Secular and Sacred Celebrations Grove Harris 2010

  • The vivid orange and black colors associated with the day bring to mind the colors of bare trees silhouetted against the autumn sunset, and the turning of the season towards the coming winter's darker and colder days.

    Grove Harris: Halloween and Samhain: Secular and Sacred Celebrations Grove Harris 2010

  • Dancers, madly dancing; silhouetted druidic gestures; pale ass-cleft of hippie maiden, vibrant in the dusk.

    Woodstock Nation 2009

  • The vivid orange and black colors associated with the day bring to mind the colors of bare trees silhouetted against the autumn sunset, and the turning of the season towards the coming winter's darker and colder days.

    Grove Harris: Halloween and Samhain: Secular and Sacred Celebrations Grove Harris 2010

  • This is Ashley silhouetted in front of one of the flat wall tanks:

    2010 March « Biodork 2010

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