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Example sentences for: mauve

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

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.
[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.”
has a visual energy all its own--a blizzard of boulders, the village blanketed with mauve ash, a bridge cracking apart and dumping its cargo of cars into a river" (Joe Morgenstern, the Wall Street Journal ). "The stupid thing gets the job done" (David Denby, New York ). Critics interpret the sudden outcropping of natural-disaster movies as nostalgia for the '70s and films such as The Poseidon Adventure and Jaws , "some of whose plot elements have been recycled here," says Denby.
I, for one, can barely tell you which of the colors I dislike is mauve and which is fuchsia.