line drawing

noun

: a drawing made in solid lines

Examples of line drawing in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web Then the researcher uploaded a simple line drawing of a foot taking a step, and asked the model to pinpoint the moment in the transcript that the drawing refers to. Richard Nieva, Forbes, 15 Feb. 2024 Gianluca Costantini’s intricate line drawings pair with Elettra Stamboulis’s comic-bubble text to help expand Ai’s lifelong campaign for free expression to a new medium for a new generation. Jonathan Landreth, New York Times, 7 Feb. 2024 Its 80 pages all have chic line drawings of flowers just waiting to be colored. Maya Polton, Parents, 21 Nov. 2023 Delicate line drawings and spare language do the heavy lifting in this tale, whose moral (and its ending) has been dissected, debated and satirized in everything from The New Yorker to The Michigan Law Review. Roxana Popescu, San Diego Union-Tribune, 19 Nov. 2023 Sketchpad afforded many different capabilities for working with these line drawings, including the automatic completion of shapes, resizing, and the ability to copy and repeat elements. IEEE Spectrum, 14 Apr. 2023 His simple line drawings—in contrast with painterly images more common to the times—and waggish humor also made way for the eerie and fanciful later work of William Steig and ultimately for the refinement of Saul Steinberg’s sharp wit. Françoise Mouly, The New Yorker, 28 Aug. 2023 Floral line drawings—developed by Risso and inspired by the Marni archives—wind their way across the collection, whimsical doodles that could pass as flower studies by a particularly precocious child. Lilah Ramzi, Vogue, 25 Aug. 2023 But even en verso, the flaws are awfully minor; the way her black sewn thread captures expression, perspective, and the drape of fabric as well as any expert line drawing, left me a little dumbfounded. Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com, 24 Aug. 2023

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Word History

First Known Use

1891, in the meaning defined above

Time Traveler
The first known use of line drawing was in 1891

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“Line drawing.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/line%20drawing. Accessed 18 Apr. 2024.

Kids Definition

line drawing

noun
: a drawing made in solid lines

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