Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Having a white line or lines
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Examples
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I brought with me to a half-day creative writing workshop this past weekend a blue pad of paper and a blue ink pen, instead of my requisite white-lined notebook and trusty black Bic.
Karen Leland: Productivity Palette: Which Color Is Best For You? 2009
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There was only one road leading out of this town – one of those isolated, white-lined escape routes you see in the movies, with wavy lines dancing up from the sizzling asphalt – and I was headed that way.
Samaritans? : Patricia Smith : Harriet the Blog : The Poetry Foundation 2007
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The notebook in question wasn't your ordinary spiral-bound or stapled white-lined affair, but a rusty-hued recycled pamphlet decorated with polkadots and splashes of luminous pink.
Archive 2006-05-01 Alistair Myles 2006
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The notebook in question wasn't your ordinary spiral-bound or stapled white-lined affair, but a rusty-hued recycled pamphlet decorated with polkadots and splashes of luminous pink.
Going metropolitan Alistair Myles 2006
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Currently, if all I want to do is expand, say, a prim door, or texture a wall, I have to turn on an interface that *imposes an annoying white-lined grid on me covering up the object I'm trying to see* though I will not be "building by the numbers" but just moving stuff around a little.
A Gazillion Lindens 2006
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They had passed through the garage to the white-lined parking spaces at the rear of the building and he led her to a grey unmarked Wolseley, the ubiquitous police car usually black with a blue light on the roof and a gong to attract attention or move traffic out of the way.
Bottled Spider Gardner, John 2002
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Iza's bowl, white-lined with a patina from generations of use, was on her sleeping fur where Ayla had put it.
The Clan of the Cave Bear Auel, Jean M. 1980
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He saw not the white-lined gridiron, the gaunt goal-posts, the concrete stands filled with spectators, or the gay banners and pennants.
T. Haviland Hicks Senior J. Raymond Elderdice
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We flow to the east, to the white-lined shivering sea;
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Over the hot, rusty stove hung Arnold, red-faced and bright-eyed, armed with a long, wooden spatula which he continually dug into the steaming contents of an enormous white-lined kettle.
The Bent Twig Dorothy Canfield Fisher 1918
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