line drawing

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Recent Examples of line drawing The suggestive line drawing of a woman with her hand down her underwear on his 2014 vintage, J’en veux!!! Eleanor Aldridge, AFAR Media, 31 July 2025 Forty-two line drawings and acrylic works on canvas — including some darkly amusing meditations on stupid humans moving through modern life — will be on view in Martin’s first solo exhibition. Jessica Gelt, Los Angeles Times, 16 May 2025 On the second floor of the prestigious Pace Gallery in Manhattan hung white-on-white abstract paintings and what appeared to be line drawings of rocks. Spencer Kornhaber, The Atlantic, 5 May 2025 Thirteen different communities in the Canadian Arctic receive cruise passengers, departing from Iqaluit to Kinngait, known for its many sculptures and line drawing artists, and sailing through the Northwest Passage to Pond Inlet. Debbie Olsen, Condé Nast Traveler, 8 July 2022 See All Example Sentences for line drawing
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Noun
  • Yasaka, the casual all day dining emphasizing wood fire and charcoal grilling, and ten person French omakase kappo counter Ren (the one to book).
    Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 3 Apr. 2026
  • Picnic tables and charcoal grills are available at the campsites and pavilion.
    Carrie Honaker, Travel + Leisure, 3 Apr. 2026
Noun
  • The Cici and Hyatt Brown Museum of Art has the largest collection of Florida art, including 2,600 oil and watercolor paintings of the state.
    Lisa Cericola, Southern Living, 3 Apr. 2026
  • Antonio Bustamante has kept a watercolor of labor leader César Chavez for more than 35 years, hanging it on the wall of his law office in Yuma, Arizona.
    Fernanda Figueroa, Chicago Tribune, 31 Mar. 2026
Noun
  • The trio wanted to speak to children directly, and using oil pastel was part of their approach.
    Kevin Giraud, Variety, 27 Mar. 2026
  • Sweet shades of pastel get an edge when combined with chrome.
    Audrey Noble, Vogue, 8 Mar. 2026
Noun
  • But like engraving, repairing musical instruments and many other skilled trades, creating and fitting garments to individual specifications hasn’t attracted enough entry-level workers over the years to replace the professionals retiring their pincushions after decades of performing their craft.
    Anne D’Innocenzio, Los Angeles Times, 6 Apr. 2026
  • Paul Revere's engraving depicting the Boston Massacre was another example of using art to persuade people to the Revolutionary cause, Rudnick said.
    Phaedra Trethan, USA Today, 28 Mar. 2026
Noun
  • Shirahama’s detailed etching and line work make the manga feel like an old picture book come to life, and her paneling and layouts are astonishingly detailed and gorgeous.
    Wilson Chapman, IndieWire, 3 Apr. 2026
  • Helium is used during the etching process, when material that’s been deposited on a wafer is scraped away to form transistor structures, said Jacob Feldgoise, an analyst at Georgetown University’s Center for Security and Emerging Technology.
    Kelvin Chan, Fortune, 21 Mar. 2026
Noun
  • The three sketches, which show an artist's representation of the suspects based on witness information, depict three different men.
    Dean Fioresi, CBS News, 9 Apr. 2026
  • Investor and strategic representation comes from Nikhil Bahel, managing partner at Elysian Park Ventures, and Thomas Tull, co-chairman of TWG Global.
    Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 9 Apr. 2026
Noun
  • The images of that crash were shared widely online and caught Noah Williams' attention, triggering painful memories and taking him back to the day his own life changed forever.
    Karen Morfitt, CBS News, 4 Apr. 2026
  • Iranian officials told civilians to be on the lookout for survivors ​and have flooded social media with images that purport to show wreckage from the aircraft.
    Janet Loehrke, USA Today, 4 Apr. 2026
Noun
  • In the past, peptides were generally believed to be fragments of larger proteins; this doctor’s work helped establish that our genes actually code for many small peptides directly, some of which could become targets or blueprints for new drugs.
    Hannah Jocelyn, New Yorker, 8 Apr. 2026
  • The firm, however, said it was never meant to be a full or completed construction blueprint.
    Andres Viglucci, Miami Herald, 8 Apr. 2026

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“Line drawing.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/line%20drawing. Accessed 10 Apr. 2026.

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