In a moment only gray clouds and the dim outline of ruined buildings remained.
An outline of the airfield remains as agricultural fields in aerial photos today.
The wooden ship had rotted away, but its outline, and some of the treasures buried with it remained.
The outline of the episode remained largely the same from its conception.
If all the walls in the castle had been broken out, the outline would have remained, like the steel underpinnings of a skyscraper.
For a moment, the black outline of the city remained, then that, too, vanished into the shadows.
When he removed the cardboard moments later, an outline of a human body remained on the macadam.
The Concorde, too, would be covered someday and only its vague outline would remain.
An outline of the runway remains in an agricultural field in aerial photos today.
By autumn, just the faint outline of the grandstand remained.