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01. Please hand in an [outline] of your essay before you actually begin writing it so I can see if you have the right idea about how to organize your ideas.
02. The marketing executive [outlined] his new sales strategy at the weekly staff meeting.
03. The governor will [outline] his plans to reduce unemployment at a news conference tonight.
04. She was wearing a black dress [outlined] with gold lace.
05. The wolves were standing on the hill, [outlined] against the evening sky.
06. The press was given an [outline] of the highlights of the speech ahead of time.
07. Your teacher will give you an [outline] of the course in the first week of classes.
08. Let me [outline] for you our plans for the project.
09. There was an [outline] of a human body drawn in chalk on the sidewalk where the murder took place.
10. The tiger's stripes provide camouflage by breaking up the [outline] of their bodies when hidden in tall grasses.
11. Around the year 1514, Copernicus [outlined] his theory that the sun is the center of the universe.
12. In February of 1920, Adolf Hitler, spokesman for an extremist political group in Germany, [outlined] the organization's program to create a Third German Reich.
13. In October of 1939, a group of scientists, including Albert Einstein, [outlined] to President Franklin Roosevelt the possibilities of developing an atomic bomb.
14. I will [outline] the key points of our new company policy at tomorrow's staff meeting.
15. In November of 1941, less than a month before the attack on Pearl Harbor, Japanese Prime Minister General Tojo [outlined] a three-point plan he said was aimed at peace in East Asia.
16. In 1848, over 200 women and men met in New York to draft a "bill of rights" [outlining] the social, civil, and religious rights of women.
17. The report [outlines] the economic benefits of bicycling and walking as alternative modes of transportation.

Grammatical examples in English. 2013.

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  • outline — [out′līn΄] n. 1. a line bounding the limits of an object, showing its shape; contour line 2. a sketch showing only the contours of an object without use of shading 3. [also pl.] a general plan without detail 4. a summary of a subject, consisting… …   English World dictionary

  • Outline — Out line , v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Outlined}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Outlining}.] 1. To draw the outline of. [1913 Webster] 2. Fig.: To sketch out or indicate as by an outline; to create a general framework of (a plan, system, discourse, course of… …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

  • Outline — Out line , n. 1. (a) The line which marks the outer limits of an object or figure; the exterior line or edge; contour. (b) In art: A line drawn by pencil, pen, graver, or the like, by which the boundary of a figure is indicated. (c) A sketch… …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

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