lined

past tense of line

Example Sentences

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Recent Examples of lined Wells lined a ball that landed just fair down the right-field line. Chris Kirschner, New York Times, 2 Oct. 2025 Andrew Benintendi lined a fourth-inning sweeper from Ryan Bergert down the right-field line. Lamond Pope, Chicago Tribune, 28 Aug. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for lined
Verb
  • The percentage indicates how much of the fire perimeter has been surrounded by a control line.
    CA WILDFIRE BOT, Sacbee.com, 8 Oct. 2025
  • By weaving Hartley's story into the narrative, Murphy explored the fear and paranoia that surrounded rural Wisconsin during the time of Gein’s actual crimes.
    Samantha Stutsman, PEOPLE, 7 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • The program also got aligned on NIL, leading to so many key players returning this season.
    Chris Vannini, New York Times, 12 Oct. 2025
  • In Valentin's case, his love for Molina, and in Cassian's, his love for adoptive mother, Maarva (Fiona Shaw), girlfriend Bix (Adria Arjona), and the other rebels with whom he's aligned himself.
    Maureen Lee Lenker, Entertainment Weekly, 11 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • To watch Farrell, one of our most soulful contemporary actors, giving his teenage all to a big number in How to Succeed—his eyes rimmed with that classic high-school drama department eyeliner—is to be forced to live in the wild-and-woolly moment.
    Stephanie Zacharek, Time, 19 Sep. 2025
  • Yanai had a crewcut and wire-rimmed glasses.
    Lauren Collins, New Yorker, 15 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • The tree produces an annual fall harvest of walnuts, enclosed in a green husk that darkens when ripe.
    Jenna Prestininzi, Freep.com, 9 Oct. 2025
  • The team enclosed films of P6LAHB, P13LAHB, PHBV (a biodegradable PHB derivative), and PLA in mesh containers and left them on the seafloor.
    Tejasri Gururaj, Interesting Engineering, 9 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • This is a film that refuses to be fenced in, dabbling in the undead, the magical, and, perhaps most importantly, the sapphic.
    Samantha Allen, Them., 7 Oct. 2025
  • Security guards conduct basic metal detector searches at the front, and the rear doors are fenced off in an open-air parking lot.
    Jeanine Santucci, USA Today, 26 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • Armstrong was placed on IR earlier this week, after sustaining a hamstring injury in the loss to Carolina.
    Barry Jackson, Miami Herald, 12 Oct. 2025
  • Young placed an accurate pass to McMillan on a slant route, but the ball bounced off McMillan’s hands and floated into the mitts of Cowboys safety Donovan Wilson for an interception.
    Charlotte Observer, Charlotte Observer, 12 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • Her daughter, who is now 8, bounded down the steps first, wearing a pink bow and a broad smile.
    Melissa Sanchez, ProPublica, 10 Oct. 2025
  • The bull wheeled, tearing through the fescue and bounded uphill.
    Derek Horner, Outdoor Life, 8 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • The case, filed by journalists, media organizations, clergy and local residents, claims federal agents used tear gas, pepper balls and other force to intimidate peaceful demonstrators and reporters covering immigration enforcement operations.
    Robert Alexander, MSNBC Newsweek, 8 Oct. 2025
  • In 2024, shortly after the 32-year-old filed for divorce from her estranged husband, Offset, Pooh Shiesty allegedly took to her comment section during a live Instagram broadcast.
    DeMicia Inman, VIBE.com, 8 Oct. 2025

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“Lined.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/lined. Accessed 13 Oct. 2025.

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