Example Sentences
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The previous owners — an army general and his wife, a journalist — paneled the main room in rustic limed wood with scalloped trim.
From New York Times • Mar. 20, 2024
Indeed, of the 180 or so tombs that his team examined at the cemetery, this was the only one that had been limed.
From New York Times • Mar. 25, 2023
Lightness and informality were crucial to achieving the desired open-arms effect, so the living room’s dusky paneling was stripped and limed to give it an earthier blanched appearance.
From Architectural Digest • Sep. 8, 2015
Against one wall was a pile of limed and salted hides, still covered in hair.
From The Guardian • Dec. 13, 2012
Ah, that is what sets the artist apart from all the under-world of dreamers––his genius endures to the end; but the near-poet struggles like a bee limed in his own honey.
From Hidden Water by Dixon, Maynard
