TAWNY in a Sentence
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19 example sentences for TAWNY, such as:
1. The wind raised the tawny beard.
2. In the silence their dark fire kindled the dusk into a tawny glow.
3. It must have been the scarcity of detail in that tawny landscape that made detail so precious.
4. He hadn't much head behind his ears, and his tawny fleece grew down thick to the back of his neck.
5. On his long and rather large head grew dry black hair and a tawny moustache did not quite cover an unamiable mouth.
2. In the silence their dark fire kindled the dusk into a tawny glow.
3. It must have been the scarcity of detail in that tawny landscape that made detail so precious.
4. He hadn't much head behind his ears, and his tawny fleece grew down thick to the back of his neck.
5. On his long and rather large head grew dry black hair and a tawny moustache did not quite cover an unamiable mouth.
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Meanings and Examples of TAWNY
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tawny
a. of a light brown to brownish orange color; the color of tanned leather
Classic Sentence: (19 in 2 pages)
1 Only this thin hedge shut them off from the plains-shorn wheat-lands of autumn, a hundred acres to a field, prickly and gray near-by but in the blurred distance like tawny velvet stretched over dipping hillocks.
2 But the wheat and grass were sleek velvet under the sunset; the prairie clouds were tawny gold; and she swung happily into Main Street.
3 She was part of these lakes and tawny wheat-fields.
4 Their tawny features, now all begrimed with smoke and sweat, their matted beards, and the contrasting barbaric brilliancy of their teeth, all these were strangely revealed in the capricious emblazonings of the works.
5 It must have been the scarcity of detail in that tawny landscape that made detail so precious.
6 He hadn't much head behind his ears, and his tawny fleece grew down thick to the back of his neck.
7 The wind raised the tawny beard.
8 In the silence their dark fire kindled the dusk into a tawny glow.
9 It was after sunset; but the window-panes of the houses that looked to the west reflected the tawny gold of a great bank of clouds.
10 On his long and rather large head grew dry black hair and a tawny moustache did not quite cover an unamiable mouth.
11 There was an eddy in the mass of human bodies, and the woman with helmeted head and tawny cheeks rushed out to the very brink of the stream.
12 Thence shall Romulus, gay in the tawny hide of the she-wolf that nursed him, take up their line, and name them Romans after his own name.
13 So spoke I, and spread over my neck and broad shoulders a tawny lion-skin for covering, and stoop to my burden.
14 They give horses to the Teucrians who seek the fields of Tyrrhenia; a chosen one is brought for Aeneas, housed in a tawny lion skin that glitters with claws of gold.
15 Her skin was faintly tawny, her limbs had a certain stillness, her body should have had a full, down-slipping richness; but it lacked something.
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