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.
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Animal Farm by George Orwell
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 Meanings and Examples of TAWNY
tawny
 a.  of a light brown to brownish orange color; the color of tanned leather
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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.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER III
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.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XII
3  She was part of these lakes and tawny wheat-fields.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXIV
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.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 96. The Try-Works.
5  It must have been the scarcity of detail in that tawny landscape that made detail so precious.
My Antonia By Willa Cather
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1. The Shimerdas: IV
6  He hadn't much head behind his ears, and his tawny fleece grew down thick to the back of his neck.
My Antonia By Willa Cather
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 5. Cuzak's Boys: I
7  The wind raised the tawny beard.
The Red Badge of Courage By Stephen Crane
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 3
8  In the silence their dark fire kindled the dusk into a tawny glow.
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man By James Joyce
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 3
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.
Dubliners By James Joyce
Context  Highlight   In THE SISTERS
10  On his long and rather large head grew dry black hair and a tawny moustache did not quite cover an unamiable mouth.
Dubliners By James Joyce
Context  Highlight   In A PAINFUL CASE
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.
Heart of Darkness By Joseph Conrad
Context  Highlight   In III
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.
The Aeneid By Virgil
Context  Highlight   In BOOK FIRST
13  So spoke I, and spread over my neck and broad shoulders a tawny lion-skin for covering, and stoop to my burden.
The Aeneid By Virgil
Context  Highlight   In BOOK SECOND
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.
The Aeneid By Virgil
Context  Highlight   In BOOK EIGHTH
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.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H Lawrence
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 7
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