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Examples of primary color in a Sentence
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The device, made of metal, is about the size of a refrigerator, with large buttons in primary colors, like a child’s toy.
—Ed Caesar, The New Yorker, 4 Nov. 2024
Like his photography, Ogbonna’s home is saturated with light and primary colors throughout.
—Priscilla Ward, Architectural Digest, 23 Oct. 2024
Each dye roll holds 20 repeating sets of four panels: cyan, yellow, and magenta primary colors, plus a clear protective layer.
—PCMAG, 23 Oct. 2024
There are six tertiary colors because of the mixing of the three primary colors with three secondary colors, and they are located between primary and secondary colors on the color wheel.
—Kate Reggev, Architectural Digest, 8 Oct. 2024
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First Known Use
1817, in the meaning defined above
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“Primary color.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/primary%20color. Accessed 14 Nov. 2024.
Kids Definition
primary color
noun
: any of a set of colors from which all other colors may be made with the colors for light being red, green, and blue and for pigments or paint being red, yellow, and blue
Medical Definition
primary color
noun
: any of a set of colors (as red, yellow, and blue or red, green, and blue) from which all other colors may be derived
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