Etymology
Origin of rimmed
Example Sentences
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Except for one picked cuticle on a fingernail, which was ever so slightly rimmed with blood.
From The Wall Street Journal • Sep. 30, 2025
Prosper, who wore a grey T-shirt, attended his hearing wearing black rimmed glasses.
From BBC • Mar. 18, 2025
Impossibly deep caves in somber velvets and blues are rimmed with massive coffin ships of unknown origin.
From New York Times • Jun. 18, 2024
They didn’t panic as Denver pushed and as the Lakers’ shots rimmed in and out.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 27, 2024
The Eye was rimmed with fire, but was itself glazed, yellow as a cat’s, watchful and intent, and the black slit of its pupil opened on a pit, a window into nothing.
From "The Fellowship of the Ring" by J.R.R. Tolkien
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