Example sentences for: mauve

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

  • [My point about mauve was that it has no particular usage associations but that devine and adorable , among other words, are “associated with ways in which some women but probably no men (except those imitating women sarcastically, homosexuals, or interior decorators) express themselves.”

  • The makeup counter was lined with female forms: an older Latin woman painting the wide-open eyes of an African-American teen-ager; a white girl and a pink girl and a brown girl crowding around the eyeliner counter, avidly seeking their "one true color" amid the promiscuous riot of magenta, peach, chartreuse, fuchsia, and mauve.

  • Some homosexual men may indeed use terms like divine, adorable , or mauve [XX,4,7 BIBLIOGRAPHIA], but that surely does not include all homosexual men.

  • Here, oxidization has turned the rocks bright mauve, ochre, green, vermilion, turquoise, and purple.

  • I, for one, can barely tell you which of the colors I dislike is mauve and which is fuchsia.


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