vermilion

Example Sentences

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While competing, his forehead was marked with a vermilion tika, a Hindu symbol of power and purity.

From New York Times

The floodplains also provide habitat for monarch butterflies and birds such as vermilion flycatchers, yellow warblers and red-winged blackbirds.

From Los Angeles Times

Clark off North Carolina, with vermilion snapper schooling nearby.

From Salon

The blood-red hue of a small, 1974 silkscreen version in vermilion, installed with four drawings in a side gallery, evokes engorgement and violence.

From Los Angeles Times

Some of Jade’s work spoke to her personal interests in nature and birds, like an entry she wrote on the vermilion flycatcher, which got about 21,000 page views in the past 12 months.

From New York Times