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Example sentences for "pinkish"

Lexicographically close words:
pinions; pink; pinked; pinker; pinking; pinkly; pinkness; pinks; pinky; pinna
  1. These eggs are very beautiful objects, being of a deep pinkish hue, usually six in number.

  2. The tone of the walls and floor is a pinkish brown, and the whole church has a warm glowing effect from its richly-coloured stone.

  3. He jumped on the left rudder with every ounce of his strength and slammed the plane around in a turn that made a pinkish haze rise up before his eyes.

  4. He eased off the speed of the turn, however, and the pinkish haze that was starting to film his eyes faded away until he could see clearly again.

  5. Of eight individuals collected at Paracho, one was reddish brown, two were pinkish tan, three were dark brown, and two were black.

  6. In life the anterior dorsolateral stripes were pale pinkish tan, the labials cream color, the throat white, and the tail pale blue.

  7. The larvae are pale pinkish tan above and somewhat paler below; there is a lateral row of cream colored spots.

  8. The codlin-moth lays the eggs that produce the pinkish caterpillar which causes a large proportion of wormy apples and pears.

  9. Suddenly something caught her eye ahead, something that gleamed; it was exactly like a long, bare, rather pinkish bone standing erect on the ground.

  10. And then came another, poking its pinkish wounds above the snow.

  11. Of the other yellow stones, the true or precious topaz is frequently inclined to a pinkish or wine yellow and many such stones lose all their yellow (retaining their pink) when gently heated.

  12. So they've got white hair, colorless skins, and pinkish eyes.

  13. Under the torchlight the dilated pupils of his pinkish eyes seemed to shine as phosphorescent as a cat's.

  14. The two white barbarians followed, peering with those strange, pinkish eyes of theirs, courageous still, yet utterly at a loss to know what manner of thing they were now drawing near.

  15. Their squinting, pinkish eyes and pallid faces showed ghastly by the torch-glare, as, murmuring among themselves in their incomprehensible yet strangely familiar tongue, they climbed the slope.

  16. The nest is built of sticks and lined with horse-hair or feathers, and the eggs are usually nine in number, of a pinkish ground-colour, thickly spotted with pale red.

  17. They lay from five to seven eggs of a pinkish color, with a wreath of brown dots about the larger end (.

  18. Head, neck and whole body of a pinkish gray; scaled as is the former.

  19. JULIE: (After a critical survey of her shoulders) Why, I guess it's a sort of pinkish white.

  20. THE YOUNG MAN: (Surprised) Why I thought you said you were wearing pinkish white!

  21. The hind-wings are pale brown, pinkish tinged; there is an obscure terminal line; the cilia are brownish-pink.

  22. The hind-wings are grey with pinkish reflections; they are shaded with darker grey towards the termen; the cilia are white, the head and thorax are dark brown, the abdomen grey.

  23. On the sides there is a series of pale pinkish oblique stripes, blended with dull red towards the spiracles.

  24. The breast feathers shade from pinkish fawn to pale buff below.

  25. Sepals and petals light fawn-colour with a pinkish tone; lip crimson, veined with yellow.

  26. All pinkish white, suffused with crimson, lined with crimson and speckled with purple.

  27. The pinkish sheet was spread flat before him.

  28. These pinkish and greenish newspapers are thin sheets of gelatine pressed nightly over the brain and heart of the world.

  29. Tergum, with the apex pinkish purple, produced or beaked, but the beak is not needle-like, as in B.

  30. In some of the specimens the basis is cup-formed: in some, the broad radii are pale pink, in others they are quite white, and in this latter case a singular aspect is given to the pinkish varieties.

  31. I have seen, the pinkish varieties of T.

  32. The pinkish pearls did not seem so far away as before, and they were now offered directly.

  33. The fingers of the little hand still rested on the silken lining, like pinkish pearls.

  34. When we entered we found ourselves in a vestibule flagged with pinkish stones and ornamented with a large fountain of burnished copper.

  35. I had persuaded my mother to paper this attic room, and she had covered its walls with a pinkish chamois paper which is still there; she also put a what-not and some glass cases there.

  36. Hens and young cocks: In these the pink is replaced by a pinkish grey, or pale coffee-coloured hue.

  37. This may be distinguished by the curious dark spots and markings on its pinkish yellow bill.

  38. As if to outline the extent of these, comes a line of pinkish white, and then one of rich golden brown, shading into the prevailing colour.

  39. There was a small oblong figure of pinkish white where the eye would fall, and the field of each space was brownish red velvet.

  40. Even the eggs of this mated pair carried a pinkish white shade and were stained with brown.

  41. Next this comes a narrower band of pinkish white.

  42. Even by gas light I could see that the yellow of the living moth was a warm canary colour, and the lavender of the mounted specimen closer heliotrope on the living, for there were pinkish tints that had faded from the pinned moth.

  43. The face wore a pink flush over brown, the eyes bright brown, the under thorax covered with long pinkish brown hairs, and the legs the same.

  44. The under part was pinkish wine crossed with a narrow white line at each segment.

  45. I have poured three large drops of pinkish liquid the consistency of thin cream from the abdominal rings of a Regalis case.

  46. The dining-room at Magara House is a fair-sized apartment, with walls of well-smoothed cement surface of pinkish tone, due to red ochre being mixed with the cement.

  47. The sky was a pale azure in the zenith and along the northern horizon a thin film of pinkish mist veiled the distant line of coast.

  48. But above all the rest she cherished a frayed and pinkish paper, rather crumpled and a little soiled.

  49. And here Morris opened a hot little hand and disclosed a tightly folded pinkish paper.

  50. A slender procumbent herb, with square stems, lanceolate pungent leaves in whorls of 4--6, and small subsessile blue or pinkish flowers surrounded by a gamophyllous involucre.


  51. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "pinkish" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    pink; primrose; rose; rosy; salmon