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Example sentences for "pink"

Lexicographically close words:
pining; pinion; pinioned; pinioning; pinions; pinked; pinker; pinking; pinkish; pinkly
  1. How could there be, when such a pink and white nest awaited her?

  2. The walls were hung with dainty pink and white paper.

  3. A little to one side of the open grate was a tiny table just large enough to hold a bowl of pink roses.

  4. Perhaps I'll have to ask one of them to wear a pink string tied to her finger and the other a green.

  5. Now, go out for a walk and come back for tea with pink cheeks, you look tired out.

  6. The gloves of madame are white silk, and so also, as she is not reluctant to advise, are her stockings, picked out with pink and silver clocks.

  7. A full blue costume, with pannier more than five yards in circumference, under a skirt of silver gauze, trimmed with golden gauze and pink crape, and a train lying six yards upon the floor, showing silver embroideries with white roses.

  8. From her hair depends a veil of light gauze covered with gold spangles, and it is secured upon the left side by a hand's grasp of pink and white feathers, surmounted by a magnificent heron plume of long and silken whiteness.

  9. The pink is Jove's flower, and of the flowers assigned to Juno may be mentioned the lily, crocus, and asphodel.

  10. The little pink is "lady's cushion," and the campanula is her looking-glass.

  11. She wore a white veil, and looked pink through it.

  12. You can't go up a man's front steps and ring the bell and ask him if he's going to be married or buried or have a pink tea.

  13. Her eyes were so brightly eager and her cheeks so pink that she looked quite girlish under her lace cap.

  14. Her eyelids were rather pink and her nice little face was tired.

  15. You could see, by a little streak of pink colour down each of Nettie's cheeks, that some great thought of pleasure had started into her mind.

  16. Mr. Mathieson thought the pink in her cheeks was the prettiest thing he had seen in a long while.

  17. That's what Gay calls 'the pink penultimate.

  18. He wore a soft, striped flannel shirt with a flowing pink tie.

  19. It was just being deserted by a short young hoodlum, with a pink and green striped sweater, accompanied by a girl several inches too tall for him, dressed in a soiled buff raglan and a triumphal hat.

  20. He drew off his rain coat and sat down, as fresh and pink as ever, the drops still glistening on his cheeks.

  21. After her father had left the house she went up to her workroom, put on her pink pinafore and commenced her bookbinding.

  22. His cheeks were pink and gently dimpled, his mouth ample, firm and well-cut, over a square, deeply cleft chin.

  23. Fancy rubbed her handkerchief across her pink cheeks, and handed the bit of cambric to Clytie.

  24. A faint glow of pink began to creep up Clytie's neck and mantle her cheek.

  25. She unbuttoned the collar of her shirt-waist and turned it in, disclosing a delicious pink hollow at her throat.

  26. So he went calmly round the room in his work of destruction, disclosing a widening space of horribly-patterned wall-paper--pink and yellow roses writhing up a violently blue background.

  27. Then, loosening the collar of her waist, she allowed the chain to drop inside to hang touching her warm pink breast.

  28. The silk curtains in the windows were severely arranged in multitudinous little pleats, fan shaped, drawn in with a pink ribbon at the center.

  29. First, I'd say that your ears are the most deliciously shaped, cream-white, and the lobes are pure pink with a dab of carmine laid on as if with a brush.

  30. They had donned pants of pink and yellow, respectively, with shirts of royal purple and striked stockings, when the pipers began to play.

  31. Above the wash bench Myra's face, delicately pink and white and framed by her hair that was the color of strained honey, looked down at him through an open window.

  32. The women are constantly coming for physic, and the assistants are stated to gravely measure a little peppermint and colour it pink or yellow, which does as well.

  33. But I see also now a little pink somewhere in the water, much brown too, and shades I know no name for.

  34. How strange it seems, on a bleak spring day, to see the beautiful pink blossom of the apricot or peach covering the grey wall with colour--snowflakes in the air at the time!

  35. At the edge of the bank pink convolvulus twines round the stalks and the green-flowered buckwheat gathers several together.

  36. One by one the lofty peaks caught a pink glow from the coming sun, and as the mists rolled away we could see the pretty lake of Amatitlan nestled amongst the hills and the sleeping hamlets dotted over the plains.

  37. The small figure with its flying pigtails swayed and swung, and the pink legs darted in and out.

  38. They were of a peculiar shade of pink silk, with clockwork up the sides and sprays of white flowers embroidered over the instep.

  39. But 'Mazin' Grace heard nothing, saw nothing; she lay unconscious on the roof, an absurdly pitiful little figure in her ragged dress and pink silk stockings.

  40. The tea-cups were white with a pattern of pink roses; and the dinner-plates were white and blue.

  41. I am baking it in a pie-dish--a pie- dish with a pink rim.

  42. When Ribby came out for a pailful of water to wash up the tea- things, she found a pink and white pie-dish lying smashed in the middle of the yard.

  43. Now all the pig family are pink, or pink with black spots, but this pig child was smutty black all over; when it had been popped into a tub, it proved to be Yock-yock.

  44. The long lines or files of pelicans fishing on the sandy shore, with the flights of pink flamingoes hovering overhead.

  45. A white ceiling surmounted, and a white wall paper, with pale pink roses confined within vertical stripes of dull yellow, surrounded the room.

  46. A pink glow suffused her bare arms and heaving breast.

  47. The gipsy snatched it away with angry gesture, a fierce light entering her large oval eyes, whilst the rosy pink that had suffused her olive cheeks swelled to the flush of scarlet that betrayed her savage nature.

  48. Boil gently until apples are tender and a pretty pink color.

  49. Form it into little basket shapped molds and, when set, partly fill each little pink basket with mayonnaise.

  50. With the end of the yellow period came three months of pink flowers, to be followed in the closing third of the Exposition's life by a show of variegated blooms.

  51. The Court of the Ages was a pink flare of hyacinths, which, with an exquisite sense of the desert feeling of the court, were stripped of their leaves and left to stand on bare stalks.

  52. From time to time a blush of tiny pink flowers runs over the wall.

  53. Some one had noticed that the white beach sand at Santa Cruz turned pink when heated.

  54. In a short time after his arrival, he caught sight of Aunt Silvy; he knew her by the faded pink satin bonnet which she had worn ever since he could remember.

  55. See, his pretty pink skin is all stained with it.

  56. As if the repetition of his name settled his own doubts, he leaped toward the gate and thrust a pink nose between the bars, with a howl of recognition as Betty's face was more clearly seen.

  57. She could see the wrinkles on his forehead, the red weal that the rim of his hat had left on the temples, the few stray hairs that yet remained on the top of the pink head.

  58. Then she turned down the light, threw some more coals on the fire, and taking the child from the bed she sat down and held the little bundle of pink flesh against her bosom.

  59. Ah, here he is, the wee laddie,” she cooed on seeing the little pink face in the bed.

  60. A pretty pink dress was obtained for the child; it did not suit.

  61. She sorted her tresses, and put in its place an erring lock that persisted in falling over her little pink ear.

  62. The boy with his round chubby legs and wonderful pink toes, which she never tired of counting, was a wonder and delight to her.

  63. I returned this by praising a new fuchsia with five pink bells and a golden coronal, which she had lately added to her collection; and, she then gave me the hint to which I have drawn attention.

  64. The crags glowed a deep rich red, except when they were covered with grass, on which the pink sea-thrift had already faded into white.

  65. Passing into an adjoining room, which was empty, she hastily drew from her bosom the little box which Locusta had given her, and sprinkled the yellow flakes and powder among the sporules on the pink inner surface of the mushroom.

  66. But he turned his head the other way, shamefacedly, as Mildred, looking sweet and fair in white muslin and pink ribbons, followed her younger sisters into the street, and sent a casual glance in his direction.

  67. A pink tinge crept into Hetty's cheeks, and a sparkle into her eyes as she looked at her companion.

  68. The pink tinge still showed in her cheeks, and her eyes had a suspicious brightness in them.

  69. Hetty Torrance felt her fingers quiver under his grasp, but the next moment he had turned away, and her companions noticed there was a faint pink tinge in her cheeks when she rejoined them.

  70. He lay and looked at the glow, the sunset glow of pink and gold on the Libyan Hills, and his fevered eyes scarcely saw them; they were only a part of this last helpless, senseless dream.

  71. They thought that question answered, when, out of the evening pink and opal and the golden sand behind them, they saw three Arabs riding.

  72. Then he glanced at a sheet of pink paper which lay on the mantelpiece.

  73. He always thought you the very pink of propriety.

  74. All the children were most cunning, especially Quentin as Cupid, in the scantiest of pink muslin tights and bodice.

  75. There were vines with masses of brilliant purple and pink flowers, and others with masses of little white flowers, which at night-time smell deliciously.

  76. He has just been presented with two white rabbits, which he brought in while we were at lunch yesterday, explaining that they were "the valuablest kind with pink eyes.

  77. He is in the pink of condition, while for the last week I have been a little knocked out by the Cuban fever.


  78. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "pink" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    acme; anarchist; anarchistic; bite; blaze; blush; bore; broach; chop; climax; color; communion; consummation; crimp; crimson; culmination; cut; drill; elite; excited; extreme; extremist; fix; flower; flush; flushed; fresh; gash; glow; gore; gouge; green; height; hole; honeycomb; impale; incise; indent; jag; lance; left; mantle; mill; needle; nick; nihilistic; notch; peak; penetrate; perfection; perforate; picot; pierce; pink; pinnacle; prick; primrose; punch; puncture; radical; ream; redden; revolutionary; revolutionist; riddle; rose; rosy; rouge; ruddy; salmon; scallop; scarify; score; serrate; skewer; slash; spear; spike; spit; stab; stick; subversive; summit; tap; tooth; top; transfix; ultimate; ultra; youthful


    Some related collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    pink flowers; pink satin; pink silk