pastel
Example Sentences
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My mother had spent her final days in eager anticipation of pastel sunsets in desert skies.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 7, 2026
The vivid pink began to fade after four days, becoming a softer pastel shade.
From Science Daily • May 2, 2026
His debut piece for Coachella captured a pastel desert with a giant California poppy-turned-Venus flytrap, its long stem ending in a stylus on a record player rooted in a tree stump.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 10, 2026
Throughout the novel - the cover of which is pastel pink with the title spelled out in children's alphabet blocks - the protagonist uses child-like language, wears children's clothing, and engages in child-like behaviour.
From BBC • Feb. 10, 2026
They wore plastic, slip-on shoes in pastel colors.
From "Habibi" by Naomi Shihab Nye
Vocabulary lists containing pastel
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