likening

Example Sentences

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It was when visiting the bay to take photos for an illustrated paddler’s guide to its attractions that Turcik took that photo of a solitary ship against a pinkening sky.

From Washington Post • Aug. 8, 2022

At dinner, under a pinkening sky, on a stage with a gazebo dripping with purple flowers, Kristin Chenoweth, a new Hallmark star, sang “Over the Rainbow.”

From The New Yorker • Dec. 16, 2019

As we set off upstream in the pinkening green, the President stood in the stern, sunburned, his face blotchy and cratered with scratched bites, his blond hair darkened by sweat and matted down.

From New York Times • Aug. 11, 2015

July 12th: Hearing the original lineup of Dinosaur Jr.—reunited, making great records, virtuosic, fantastic—perform “SludgeFeast” at South Street Seaport, under a pinkening sky.

From The New Yorker • Dec. 17, 2014

I can see her fingertips pinkening with the tightness of her grip, and then she drops it onto the ground.

From "Paper Towns" by John Green