How to Use calico in a Sentence

calico

noun

• The calico, of course, is made from rum, coconut cream and orange juice.
  — Josie Sexton, The Know, 29 Oct. 2019
• Try to wrap your head around this: In Japan, a calico was born who was named Meme (full name: Memebon).
  — Sonia Zjawinski, WIRED, 15 Apr. 2008
• His loyal readers will cotton to the idea — calico to it! — that the future lies in the fun, and thus that the future is fun.
  — Virginia Heffernan, New York Times, 22 Nov. 2016
• The common hamster, as the wild species is known, is about the size and shape of a sweet potato, with calico fur, beady dark eyes and half-moon ears.
  — Ben Crair, Smithsonian, 21 Feb. 2018
• Her calico frock, worn to a stiffness, catches the wind, making her hands like blurred wings.
  — Elisa Gonzalez, Washington Post, 14 Apr. 2023
• Then there’s the sweet and playful Morning Glory, a dilute calico, and Yuki, who came in the other day.
  — Lilly Nguyen, Daily Pilot, 9 Aug. 2019
• As people wander below, the calico cat sits above them from 7 a.m. to 1 a.m. local time each day.
  — Jacorey Moon, PEOPLE.com, 6 Aug. 2021
• Some may even have a lovely Scottish brogue, and an ancient calico cat.
  — M. Carrie Allan, sacbee, 23 Jan. 2018
• Blue lobsters, Goethel said, are not as rare as calico lobsters.
  — Washington Post, 9 May 2021
• In the winter months, shelling is very popular for seekers of calico clams, cockles, and smoothed sea glass.
  — Amy Aumick, OrlandoSentinel.com, 7 May 2018
• Noel, the calico kitten, was about to go home with her new forever mother.
  — Ileana Najarro, Houston Chronicle, 6 Jan. 2018
• Lucky Bea is a real beauty — a calico with outstanding deep gold and black stripes and touches of white.
  — The Arizona Republic, 4 Sep. 2021
• Face masks aren’t authentic to the 19th century, even if they are made of calico or homespun.
  — Joanne Y. Cleaver, chicagotribune.com, 8 Nov. 2020
• As a row of women bicycled their legs in the air, tiny calico Blondi sat quietly to watch wide eyed.
  — Amy McRary, USA TODAY, 27 June 2017
• The calico cat is first startled awake in the morning, and by the afternoon it can be seen standing up and meowing at passersby.
  — CNN, 6 July 2021
• As a calico lobster, Freckles is a one-in-30-million find.
  — Theresa MacHemer, Smithsonian Magazine, 13 May 2021
• Holding the proper pose for a plank in Pilates gets tough when a 2-month-old calico kitten named Blondi races under your arms.
  — Amy McRary, USA TODAY, 27 June 2017
• After her brother died, the family was just O’Dette, her uncle and his spoiled calico cat, Babbee.
  — Paige Fry, chicagotribune.com, 19 Feb. 2021
• This beautiful 3-year-old calico is more than ready to settle down in a permanent home.
  — The Republic, The Arizona Republic, 9 Dec. 2022
• Mitchell made some drawings of their dining room: the view from the window, a basket of apples, flowers in a glass vase, her calico cat lounging on a pillow.
  — Amanda Petrusich, The New Yorker, 16 Oct. 2019
• Both cats are considered to be of the dominant calico Persian breed.
  — Shafiq Najib, PEOPLE.com, 3 Apr. 2022
• The two-year-old calico medium hair was brought to the Arizona Humane Society in early June of this year with four nursing kittens.
  — Arizona Republic, azcentral, 26 July 2019
• Leopard crab The leopard crab, also known as a calico crab, has spots similar to leopard’s.
  — Liz Langley, National Geographic, 7 Aug. 2019
• The full-length profile emphasizes the French cut and fashion of the sitter’s dress, which the Way sisters carefully constructed out of a fine calico fabric.
  — Nora McGreevy, Smithsonian Magazine, 11 Nov. 2021
• Zip is an 18-week-old Domestic Short Hair calico kitten.
  — Susan Green, OregonLive.com, 29 Aug. 2017
• Animal: Rosie, 1-year-old, 8-pound, female, domestic short hair cat with a calico coat.
  — Linda McIntosh, San Diego Union-Tribune, 8 Nov. 2021
• Sora, our shy calico, also a rescue, grew even more reclusive.
  — Los Angeles Times, 4 Oct. 2021
• But rare specimens can be bright blue, orange, yellow, calico, or even split-toned, like one found in Scarborough, Maine in July 2015.
  — Eli Meixler, Time, 14 June 2018
• Animal: Eden, 2-year-old, 7-pound female domestic shorthair cat with a calico coat.
  — Linda McIntosh, San Diego Union-Tribune, 29 Dec. 2023
• Painting calico and sticking it down with glue might not sound terribly sophisticated, but frankly, who cares?
  — Jermaine Gallacher, Vogue, 29 Sep. 2023

Last Updated: 10 Nov 2024