olive-brown
Example Sentences
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Females are olive-brown and males chalky blue, except during breeding season, when the males gleam a flamboyant blue.
From New York Times • Aug. 16, 2021
He first gained wide recognition with the 1961 painting “The American Dream, I,” which depicts four stars within circles and other geometric forms and is set against an olive-brown background.
From Washington Post • May 23, 2018
With his olive-brown eyes and brown curls peeping out from under his wool cap, he looks like any of the thousands of Afghan boys who loiter, energetic and restless, in Pakistani refugee camps.
From Time Magazine Archive
In the olive-brown twilight, Wangenstein Alleys look like Spanish moss forests, with double rubber tubes descending from bottles high above each bed to the patients' noses and wounds.
From Time Magazine Archive
After the August moult, he emerges a dingy olive-brown, sparrowy bird, in perfect colour harmony with the wintry fields.
From Birds Every Child Should Know by Blanchan, Neltje
