milk-white

Example Sentences

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Upstairs, near the relics of the Christian martyr Saint Sebastian, is the last work of 17th-century sculptor Gian Lorenzo Bernini – a wild-haired bust of Jesus in milk-white marble.

From National Geographic • Apr. 15, 2023

Koolhaas’s new, 200-foot-tall milk-white concrete tower — which broke ground when the other buildings were almost finished — rises up from the far corner of the campus, and soars over the low-lying surrounding neighborhood.

From New York Times • Apr. 17, 2018

The milk-white skin was dry to the touch, brownish and rough in places.

From The New Yorker • Sep. 12, 2016

The massive, milk-white blimps can be grounded by bad weather and, if deployed in combat zones, would be especially vulnerable to enemy attack.

From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 24, 2015

It seemed inconceivable that a spectacular streak of milk-white flame, rising and setting with the stars night after night, was not there for a reason, did not hold some portent for human affairs.

From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan