Example sentences for: ochre

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

  • Narrow alleyways with a mélange of Venetian and Ottoman buildings, a canvas of faded terracotta and ochre stucco dressed with restaurant signs or wares for sale.

  • The tilled soil, a startling ochre color, makes a colorful backdrop for orange and lemon groves.

  • The eastern end of the beach is a beautiful cove, hemmed in by cliffs and ochre rocks.

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

  • (Which they've obviously rehearsed, since it includes such arcana as the provenance of the ochre used in the enamel-painting for Lepine watches in the 1840s.)


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