pink
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The ruins of rooms from Phoenician, Persian and Roman periods have been uncovered, their pink or grey flooring helping to distinguish them.
From Barron's ● Aug. 29, 2026
Much later, Leffler found a tattoo artist with dimples like her daughter’s and a studio painted Ruby’s favorite shade of pink.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 26, 2026
For the Daily Telegraph, a picture of Meghan in pink serves to mark her "advanced discussions" to join the cast of the "gangster series" The Gentlemen.
From BBC ● Aug. 22, 2026
On Thursday, hundreds of women, many of them wearing pink, gathered to show support for Clancy outside the courthouse in Massachusetts where her trial is taking place—a sign of growing awareness about postpartum mental health.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 21, 2026
There was a closet in the group home that had bright pink roses drawn in crayon.
From "The Way to Rio Luna" by Zoraida Cordova
The fruit gets pinker in the processing and the drink has a pinkish hue.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 15, 2025
Watching Bernie on stage—his face growing steadily pinker, with sheet-white hair pouring out from the baseball cap protecting his bald spot from the sun—it is impossible not to feel some grief for the man.
From Slate ● Apr. 9, 2025
"We just bought a new feeder and we just noticed their wool was gradually getting pinker and pinker," Mr Nicholson said.
From BBC ● Nov. 5, 2022
Look closely, and you can see a slight contrast in tonality between the pinker “Cerebral” and the bluer “Ceremony,” a subtle shift that almost soothes the eye.
From Washington Post ● Jul. 28, 2022
Ruby stares at me, her cheeks going even pinker than usual.
From "How to Disappear Completely" by Ali Standish
The film took on a life of its own after a wild marketing blitz and “Oppenheimer” proximity, inspiring moviegoers to don their pinkest, most sparkly ensembles for group trips to the theaters.
From Seattle Times ● Sep. 10, 2023
One letter in 1790 from a French cloth-maker included a piece of silk that he said demonstrated he had discovered how to make the "pinkest ever pink dye".
From BBC ● Apr. 25, 2023
Blended with cooked beets for the prettiest, pinkest pancake breakfast ever or better yet, fluffed up and fried for restaurant-worthy onion rings, the humble pantry staple showed it really had the range.
From Salon ● Dec. 30, 2022
She was wearing a sleeveless dress the color of a grapefruit, the pinkest of peonies.
From The New Yorker ● Aug. 1, 2016
“With a worm, of course. Seagulls love worms, didn’t you know that? And luckily for us, we have here the biggest, fattest, pinkest, juiciest Earthworm in the world.”
From "James and the Giant Peach" by Roald Dahl
Wearing blue jeans and a pink button-down blouse, she echoed the pastel blues and pinks that appear throughout many of the works surrounding her.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 19, 2026
On the wall behind the couch where clients sit, I hung a tapestry that features a sun rising over an abstract landscape of pinks and yellows.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 16, 2026
His elegant pinks, mauves, light blues and reds are rare in such solemn scenes; almost otherworldly, they beautifully draw attention to all the gently curved bodies.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 27, 2026
Oxygen atoms glow green and nitrogen light up in reds, blues and pinks.
From BBC ● Mar. 21, 2026
He paints very swiftly, in violent eye-burning acrylics, reds and pinks and purples, in frenzied loops and swirls.
From "Cat's Eye" by Margaret Atwood
Sissy and the others sat at the edge of the woods while dawn pinked the sky.
From New York Times ● Nov. 11, 2020
Keaton, standing behind his son and moving excitedly from side to side, pinked with delight.
From The Guardian ● Sep. 9, 2017
Cara buttoned hers over her nightshirt and pants, painted red lipstick on her mouth, pinked her cheeks.
From Salon ● Mar. 26, 2013
As soon as he unclamped them, the kidney pinked up with blood flow.
From New York Times ● Feb. 19, 2012
His footbath is now pinked by the weep of his blisters.
From "The Bletchley Riddle" by Ruta Sepetys and Steve Sheinkin
If you don’t sew, don’t worry, she says, “you can cut them with pinking shears or use no-sew iron-on tape.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 4, 2024
“Another girl lived to be about 16, and I made it. So you’re looking at the luckiest guy in the world. In 1951, they operated on people with pinking shears and screwdrivers.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 12, 2023
But before you start reaching for your pinking shears, there are some techniques and tools that can be used to aid his hang time.
From Slate ● Jul. 22, 2019
Like it or not — and some people don’t like it at all — the pinking of America has become a multibillion-dollar business, a marketing, merchandising and fund-raising opportunity that is almost unrivaled in scope.
From New York Times ● Oct. 15, 2011
While Ammu watched, the Imperial Entomologist shred her new gum- boots with her mother’s pinking shears.
From "The God of Small Things" by Arundhati Roy
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