white line
noun
: a band or edge of something white
especially
: a stripe painted on a road and used to guide traffic
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Use a small piping bag with a tiny round tip or a zip-top bag with the corner snipped off to pipe a single white line down the center of each cookie.
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Gretchen McKay, Twin Cities, 18 Sep. 2025
Moms pushed babies in strollers on a road divided by a median of blowing sand and creeping ice plant succulents, still striped with dotted white lines marking what used to be driving lanes.
—Janie Har, Fortune, 16 Sep. 2025
The alcohol and white lines fueled us.
—Manuel Muñoz, Literary Hub, 11 Sep. 2025
Ayomanor appeared to get his right elbow down inbounds before any other part of his body hit the white line out of bounds.
—Arnie Stapleton, Denver Post, 9 Sep. 2025
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Gretchen McKay, Twin Cities, 18 Sep. 2025
Moms pushed babies in strollers on a road divided by a median of blowing sand and creeping ice plant succulents, still striped with dotted white lines marking what used to be driving lanes.
—Janie Har, Fortune, 16 Sep. 2025
The alcohol and white lines fueled us.
—Manuel Muñoz, Literary Hub, 11 Sep. 2025
Ayomanor appeared to get his right elbow down inbounds before any other part of his body hit the white line out of bounds.
—Arnie Stapleton, Denver Post, 9 Sep. 2025
See All Example Sentences for white line
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“White line.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/white%20line. Accessed 20 Sep. 2025.
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