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Example sentences for "palettes"

Lexicographically close words:
pales; palest; palet; paletot; palette; paleys; palfrey; palfreys; pali; palimpsest
  1. They do hold palettes full of the strongest, richest colors, and dare lay them, in vivid flecks, on their canvas.

  2. Because their masters, sometimes, daub on colors with their full palettes and strong brushes, this feeble herd tag after them and flounder around in color and passion in a way that is sickening.

  3. Plaques or palettes of schist in Egyptian tombs, xi.

  4. Palettes or plaques of schist in Egyptian tombs, xi.

  5. The development of carbon prints on absorbent material—such as canvas and palettes to be painted in oil, etc.

  6. The great palettes of slate covered with elaborate reliefs are probably all of the pre-Menite kings; the most advanced of them having the figure of Narmer, who preceded Menes.

  7. Passing the various palettes with hunting scenes and animals (Plate II.

  8. The slate palettes in the form of animals are even more summary, and continually degraded until they lost all trace of their origin.

  9. The carvings on slate palettes appear to begin with work crudely accurate and forceful, the heavy limbs being ridged with tendons and muscles (Plate II.

  10. The latter example is a strange mixture of old and new styles; high pointed bascinet and camail being blended with palettes and taces.

  11. These are almost covered by two palettes of singularly large size, that upon the left being the greater; the reinforcement to the breastplate appears below.

  12. Many of the practical slate palettes from Nakâda, on some of which traces have been found of the grinding of malachite and haematite for face-paint (cf.

  13. A very typical class of grave-furniture consisted of palettes or colour-dishes, made of alabaster, often of graceful shape, and sometimes standing on four feet.

  14. By limiting their palettes to certain pure colours they restricted their diversity of interest.

  15. Another is that you should keep your palettes separate.

  16. Before breakfast the palettes are set and the paints made ready.

  17. He told me that the easels and palettes are all old friends--the Academy box on the floor is chipped and cut about, and goes back to the forties.

  18. Among the contents of their tombs have been found curious slate palettes of all shapes and sizes, similar to some which had previously been known for many years, but the origin of which was undetermined.

  19. It has been shown that these palettes were used for grinding up malachite to form a green colour with which to paint the eye.

  20. Specimens of these palettes are to be seen in every museum.

  21. The only part she has to play is that of laying eggs, and so she has no palettes or brushes.

  22. I will suggest several palettes of different combinations which will give you an idea of how you may compose a palette to suit an occasion.

  23. But as the cost of the best of palettes is slight, you may as well get a good one.

  24. Here as elsewhere in these palettes I have in mind their use according to the principles of color and light and effect as laid down in the other parts of the book, which deal specially with those principles.

  25. In the following palettes I shall give the names of the colors, as you would look down upon them on your palette.

  26. If you do not understand just why I arrange these palettes as I do, turn to the chapters on color, and on the different kinds of painting, and I think you will see what I mean, and understand better what I say, about these combinations.

  27. The only part she has to play is that of laying eggs, and so she has no palettes and brushes.

  28. They are recognised by their small size, reddish brown colour, and, above all, by the palettes and brushes with which the hind legs are furnished.

  29. The students, bizarre and unkempt in the bohemianism of their cult, mixed colors on their palettes as they listened.

  30. The artists had palettes on which to mix their colours, and used stone lamps, specimens of which have been found, to light up their "studios" in deep cave recesses.

  31. Palettes or plaques of schist in Egyptian tombs, ii.

  32. Plaques or palettes of schist in Egyptian tombs, ii.


  33. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "palettes" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.