burnt sienna
Example Sentences
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“If I if I sell you a tube of ‘burnt sienna,’ that is God’s honest burnt sienna, dug up out of the ground, burned in an oven,” Cole says.
From Washington Post • Dec. 21, 2021
The rap against Rushdie’s fiction is that it’s become increasingly “magical,” wonder-filled and windy, as if he were typing in turquoise and burnt sienna.
From New York Times • May 24, 2021
His palette ran to burnt umber, yellow ocher, burnt sienna, olive green.
From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 6, 2019
“The car’s like a burnt sienna color, maybe cayenne? But yeah, it’s in pretty bad shape. And that way, you’ll know she’s your ride.”
From Slate • Feb. 1, 2017
He was darker than Mrs. Baylor—darker than a burnt sienna crayon.
From "It All Comes Down to This" by Karen English
