Example sentences for: palette

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

  • Altman uses a distinctive color palette here--a lot of neonlike primary colors, as if the whole Mississippi town were a blues joint--but his mastery is in his offhandedness, in how he conceals his own storytelling.

  • In Amsterdam, his palette darkened; marble floors replaced earthenware tiles, satin supplanted homespun, and a dream--it cannot have been more than that for de Hooch--of luxury reigned.

  • In a deliberate attempt to defy the locale, where, as Rothko said, "the richest bastards in New York will come to feed and show off," Rothko darkened his palette.

  • And at a time when ad people all seem to be drawing from the same palette of colors and styles, creativity and distinctiveness are, oddly enough, not synonymous.

  • His palette (and that of the costume designer, Colleen Atwood) is white on ash, gray on dusty brown, ebony on bone--the better to set off the lurid splashes of crimson.


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