Example sentences for: vermilion

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

  • To the west is the cypress-wood Seiryoden (the “Serene and Cool Chamber”), the emperor’s private chapel, serene and cool indeed in vermilion, white, and black.

  • Then, in a small, circular room, the first flickers of daylight: In Claude Monet Painting (1875), Renoir's close friend stands in a darkened room in black hat and full bushy black beard, but there's a wet blob of vermilion on the tip of his paintbrush, and more of that red smeared on the palette in his left hand.

  • Even if you feel you’ve seen enough Japanese temples, you will certainly be moved by the striking beauty of the bright red camphorwood arch of Itsukushima Shrine rising 16 m (52 ft) out of the sea in front of the low, brilliant vermilion buildings, themselves raised above the water by stilts.

  • The main hall, called the Sanbutsudo, with its almost erotic color scheme of black and green and vermilion, dates to 1648 and is the largest single building at Toshogu.

  • Hunched forward in a coarse painter's smock, he peers forlornly at us, his tired and damaged eyes rimmed with vermilion.


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