Example sentences for: hues

How can you use “hues” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • She colors the first recitative in her recording of Haydn's Orfeo ed Euridice with more brilliant hues of grief than I've ever heard before.

  • Alternatively, the bold hues might have resulted from Degas' wretched eyesight (those oranges may not have looked so bright to him ), which forced him to wear tinted glasses and keep his brown-walled studio (reproduced in the Art Institute's brown walls) in a spectral gloom.

  • In bees, as in humans, the perception of hues is arranged in a circular fashion around achromatic white or gray [19].

  • Autumn brings the finest hues to the landscape, when the leaves turn shades of apricot and copper, the bracken changes to a burnt umber, and the hillsides glow in the low sunlight, reflecting perfectly in the glassy stillness of the lakes.

  • Finally, the circular arrangement of hues also implies that it is possible to mix two ends of the perceptible spectrum to produce a sensation that is not contained in the spectrum: for humans, mixing violet with red light will produce purple, a sensation that has no equivalent in the visual spectrum; a similar unique percept can be produced by facing bees with a mixture of UV and green light [5,17].


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