sepia
Example Sentences
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She holds up a sepia photograph in a silver embossed frame: the clairvoyant Isabel Barros Moreira, her mother’s mother, her face placid, with dark hair and dark eyes.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 29, 2026
Ostrover hung a sepia photograph of his grandfather’s smoked-fish shop in Manhattan in the early 20th century.
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 2, 2026
Bagpuss would come to life after Emily left the animals alone, with the film then changing from sepia to colour.
From BBC • Feb. 12, 2024
Depictions of roses, a skull, a goat and a Santería evil eye dance around them, illuminated in sepia spotlights and looking like they could have come straight from a deck of tarot cards.
From Washington Times • Nov. 6, 2023
Lizzie’s granddaddy took the bowls and stacked them in the sink—“Time enough for that later on”—and he pointed to a line of sepia photographs tacked to the doorway.
From "Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy" by Gary D. Schmidt
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