tawny
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Folan would often describe her early years of marriage and motherhood, in an idyllic white house in a tawny Connecticut suburb, as looking blissful on the surface.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 8, 2026
In the picturesque community of Eddington, among the tawny deserts and quaint antique shops, things are quickly coming apart at the seams during the final weeks of May 2020.
From Salon ● Jul. 20, 2025
Jake, a tawny 2-year-old mutt in L.A.’s West Valley shelter, wasn’t doing well.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 22, 2024
He had seen tawny owls in the neighbourhood before but was surprised to discover these so close to the heart of the city.
From BBC ● Aug. 28, 2024
After Ynys had come the Drinkwater twins, a pair of tawny young maidens who loved hawking, hunting, climbing rocks, and making Quentyn blush.
From "A Dance with Dragons" by George R. R. Martin
The line includes an excellent Douro Reserve for just a few dollars more and some outstanding new ports, a white port and 10-, 20- and 30-year-old tawnies.
From Washington Post ● Oct. 8, 2020
The owls were flying directly at the Burrow, three handsome tawnies, each of which, it became clear as they flew lower over the path leading up to the house, was carrying a large square envelope.
From "Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince" by J.K. Rowling
The fronts of the houses are of all imaginable pale tints,—stone colors, pinks, greens, greys, and tawnies.
From The International Monthly, Volume 3, No. 3, June, 1851 by Various
The sauce is a touch spicier and tawnier in color than King’s but basically the same.
From Washington Post ● Aug. 28, 2016
Soon after the tawnier russets, like Egremont and the excellent Laxton's Superb, are being harvested.
From The Guardian ● Mar. 14, 2011
The stars have zero chemistry here, but they'd be ideal co-hosts for a 4 a.m. infomercial on tauter abs and tawnier tans.
From Time Magazine Archive
From E. u. fremonti, the subspecies from the mountains of western and northwestern Wyoming, E. u. montanus differs in: General tone of upper parts lighter; hairs around outermost edge of tail tawnier.
From Taxonomy of the Chipmunks, Eutamias quadrivittatus and Eutamias umbrinus by John A. White
She rarely rode otherwise than bare-headed, and the high-rolled masses of her hair had grown tawnier and redder for that reason.
From The Law of the Land by Emerson Hough
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