pastel

Example Sentences

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These days, pastel and fluorescent birds groom, preen and bicker in enclosures behind the home.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 4, 2026

His student competition pictures of the 1770s are rendered in the painterly technique and pastel colors associated with the Rococo style of François Boucher and Jean-Honoré Fragonard.

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 29, 2025

Balloons in every color of pastel — pink, lavender, periwinkle blue — bobbed along the hall.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 1, 2025

Edward, in his all-black leather outfit with his wild hair, is a visual culture shock, especially in comparison to the pastel world of the burbs he moves into.

From Salon • Nov. 26, 2025

As Miss Love had promised, there was a black grosgrain coat for Mama, and for Loma a thin, expensive-looking white dress with big pastel flowers embroidered on it.

From "Cold Sassy Tree" by Olive Ann Burns