noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
black
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I sit in my room by candlelight, the distant black silhouettes of land through the window strangely calming.
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Imprints of trees pressed themselves against the windshield, black silhouettes that hung like bleak skeletons.
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I am one more black silhouette in this sixty-million-year-old forest.
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The black silhouettes of the maples showed against the sky near the Big Dipper, almost overhead.
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The graceful pink hotel stood outlined against a clear electric-blue sky, framed with the black silhouettes of palms and umbrella pines.
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Above him, the trees became black silhouettes against a midnight blue sky.
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But this was a dark place of gropes and whispers, of black silhouettes .
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She was a black silhouette against the screen.
dark
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I was hidden behind a tree, but could see his dark barrel-shaped silhouette clearly enough.
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The sky was getting darker and the silhouette of the Chateau was casting a long shadow of gloom over the scene.
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Yet in dark silhouette she seemed almost a Stealer.
■ VERB
see
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I was hidden behind a tree, but could see his dark barrel-shaped silhouette clearly enough.
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On hearing a noise, he and Barnabas sat straight up, seeing only a silhouette in the doorway.
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For a moment she thought that she saw his silhouette against the window, but she couldn't be certain.
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I could see from his silhouette in the starlight that he was hanging his head.
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Within ten seconds he saw the silhouette of some one approaching beyond the glass.
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She returns to the television, and I can see her motionless silhouette against some once-jaunty blinds.
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As the lights were extinguished he could see the silhouettes of two figures inside the car.
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She paused again to see its silhouette against the dimming sky.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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I saw the silhouette of someone waiting under the streetlight.
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Lauren's fall collection includes wool suits with a new, narrower silhouette .
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The trees were silhouettes in the morning fog.
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We could see her silhouette through the curtains.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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All this for a fleeting ten second flash of silhouette on the Big Screen.
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I could see from his silhouette in the starlight that he was hanging his head.
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Imprints of trees pressed themselves against the windshield, black silhouettes that hung like bleak skeletons.
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It threw a red glow round their silhouettes as they walked away.
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One can easily imagine how such warm, living illumination would bring forth spontaneous silhouettes, as it were from another world.
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She looked up to the skyline, where Scathach's tall form was a silhouette .
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The pile drivers stood idle in the darkness, gray silhouettes like horses sleeping upright in a field.
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Throwing up her hand, Tabitha glimpsed a figure in silhouette rising up from the floor at their very feet.