silhouette

Object

• figure: She swung round to see a figure silhouetted against the morning light.
• tree: The lights of the airport bus pick out the tiny terminal building in front of which are silhouetted palm trees and groups of soldiers.

Converse of object

• create: Fit: Straight cut, creates a neat silhouette!
• see: Instead of seeing the silhouette of a plane, he saw no shape at all around the light.
• cut: Laser cut silhouettes representing the objects will be welded to hoops.

Preposition: against

• skyline: My last view of Royal Oak was of her keel, silhouetted against the dark skyline.
• sky: In silhouette against a pale night sky you may even spot its ears.
• sunset: At end, D & N are silhouetted against the sunset on top of the climbing net - beautiful.
• sun: Silhouetted against the sun was a school of large batfish.
• background: A man's figure is silhouetted against the background of a white curtain flooded by the light of a new day.
• light: The figure of a woman was silhouetted against the yellow light of the hall.

Adjective modifier

• unmistakable: Suddenly I saw a darkening of the water beyond the jacks, the unmistakable silhouette of a big manta.
• striking: In this way it replicates the visual impact of the striking silhouette of March's memorial.
• fitted: The full zip top is made from 100 cotton and has a flattering fitted silhouette.
• distinctive: THE distinctive silhouette of Stonehenge is known the world over.
• dark: At its head, a dark silhouette was clearly a swimming mammal.
• dramatic: Due to its dramatic silhouette, Union is also called by some the Tahiti of the West Indies.

Modifies a noun

• portrait: It will be like those old cut out silhouette portraits everyone used to get.

Preposition: of

• tree: In the photograph, the stark silhouettes of the ragged tree stumps fade into the aerial perspective of the murky, undefined distance.
• bird: The silhouette of a bird suspended in mid-air is not the same as the silhouette of a human being suspended in mid-air.