aline
verb (used with or without object)
aline
1 American
[uh-lahyn]
/ əˈlaɪn /
verb (used with or without object)
alined,
alining
Aline
2
American
[uh-leen, al-een]
/ əˈlin, ˈæl in /
noun
aline
British
/ əˈlaɪn /
verb
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McLaurin’s 39-yard catch, for instance, came on third and 9 and kept Washington’s first scoring drive aline.
From Washington Times ● Nov. 21, 2021
Tumbleweeds should roll by in the foreground every time Rust utters aline like that.
From Time ● Mar. 3, 2014
To adjust or form to a line; to range or form in line; to bring into line; to aline.
From Webster's Unabridged Dictionary by Noah Webster
The Master said, Guide the people by law, aline them by punishment; they may shun crime, but they will want shame.
From The Sayings Of Confucius by Leonard Arthur Lyall
Guide them by mind, aline them by courtesy; they will learn shame and grow good.
From The Sayings Of Confucius by Leonard Arthur Lyall
The sequel, from returning director David Frankel and screenwriter Aline Brosh McKenna, doesn’t find its own footing until it acknowledges that a Cinderella story about making it in journalism no longer fits.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 29, 2026
Anne Hathaway, Meryl Streep, Emily Blunt and Stanley Tucci are all back, with Frankel directing and a screenplay penned by Aline Brosh McKenna, who wrote the whip-smart original.
From Salon ● Jan. 4, 2026
The painting’s full-length figures, like those in Old Master official portraits, are here translated into a contemporary vernacular, with a radiant Aline Charigot, Renoir’s future wife, in the arms of his friend Paul Lhote.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 20, 2025
After his father was overthrown by rebels and killed in 2011, he fled to Syria and then had lived under house arrest in Oman with his wife Aline Skaf.
From BBC ● Nov. 10, 2025
Aline of people sit in chairs in front of it.
From "Divergent" by Veronica Roth
Briefly, an ordinary coupling connecting a driving and a driven shaft becomes obstinate when the two separate spindles which it connects are not truly alined.
From Steam Turbines A Book of Instruction for the Adjustment and Operation of the Principal Types of this Class of Prime Movers by Hubert E. (Hubert Edwin) Collins
Nevertheless the British Government, by this time practically alined with the North, continued its search for the real owner of the Laird rams.
From The Day of the Confederacy; a chronicle of the embattled South by Nathaniel W. (Nathaniel Wright) Stephenson
In pursuance of his orders the enlisted men who were related to the prisoners were alined in front of the center with a captain in command of them.
From Captain Jinks, Hero by Daniel Carter Beard
In all cases a plumb line is wanted for alining foundations and scattered blocks.
From How to Observe in Archaeology by Various
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