How to Use chartreuse in a Sentence

chartreuse

noun
  • The flag has three stripes of lavender, white and dark green chartreuse.
    Clare Mulroy, USA TODAY, 17 June 2024
  • Take, for instance, the chartreuse green in the living room.
    Daniel Cappello, Town & Country, 5 Apr. 2023
  • Its crimson is laced with chartreuse, and in the fall the leaves turn fiery orange.
    Bonnie Blodgett, Twin Cities, 15 Apr. 2017
  • The white, chartreuse, and green also pick up the colors of the house and small front garden.
    Southern Living Editors, Southern Living, 16 June 2023
  • To add to the wow factor is the plant’s golden chartreuse hue, the hottest color in the garden.
    Norman Winter, Houston Chronicle, 25 May 2018
  • The Morris’s head chef, Gavin Schmidt, cures salmon in chartreuse to create a sort of alpine gravlax.
    New York Times, 30 Aug. 2019
  • Berkley Squarebull crankbait in chartreuse with a blue back 3.
    The Editors, Outdoor Life, 1 June 2020
  • Whisk in the egg yolks, sugar, salt and chartreuse, if using.
    Lisa Futterman, chicagotribune.com, 7 Mar. 2018
  • Both scents come in cerise, orange, red, pink, pink pearl and chartreuse.
    Morgan Lyle, Field & Stream, 25 Apr. 2023
  • Creeping sedums glint chartreuse in cracks in the wall.
    Bonnie Blodgett, Twin Cities, 29 Jan. 2017
  • From lichen to hunter, lime, chartreuse, olive, and beyond, there's a right shade of green for every space!
    Hadley Mendelsohn, House Beautiful, 1 Mar. 2023
  • After an hour, the drizzle stopped and the northern lights emerged, chartreuse.
    Jia Tolentino, The New Yorker, 10 July 2023
  • Extras might be a couple of lead head jigs; white and chartreuse.
    John Schandelmeier, Anchorage Daily News, 20 Feb. 2022
  • This chunky chartreuse and cobalt blue string of beads will keep summer alive in your wardrobe even as the heat starts to subside.
    Ruth Kinane, Woman's Day, 8 Aug. 2014
  • The Santa Clara Shoals has been the best spot for trollers with bright colors of plugs in chartreuse or orange.
    sacbee, 23 Apr. 2018
  • Think chartreuse, a zing of hot pink, and even canary yellow.
    Patricia Shannon, Southern Living, 12 Oct. 2024
  • Head to banks with nearby dropoffs and slowly swim a small white or chartreuse twister jig.
    Don Wirth, Field & Stream, 4 Apr. 2024
  • Neat rows of vines, their leaves chartreuse with spring growth, met the untamed beauty of the high-desert grasslands.
    Gina Decaprio Vercesi, Travel + Leisure, 27 Oct. 2023
  • Kat opted for a simple wash of icy blue for this look to contrast with the chartreuse and red shades of her 'fit.
    Samantha Olson, Seventeen, 12 Jan. 2022
  • The cushions are upholstered in a Chanel-like tweed with rose, sea foam, and chartreuse threads.
    Marni Elyse Katz, BostonGlobe.com, 8 Sep. 2023
  • For the clip, Swift channeled her 2010 self with a pale chartreuse sundress and a fishtail side braid.
    Alexis Jones, Peoplemag, 5 July 2023
  • There was Day-Glo, yes, but also chartreuse, fern, mint ...
    New York Times, 18 Aug. 2021
  • A week ago, said Moore, black marabou jigs with green, chartreuse or orange heads were the best at luring trout to bite.
    cleveland, 21 Jan. 2021
  • White and chartreuse are two of the most popular tail colors, but don’t sleep on black.
    Joe Cermele, Outdoor Life, 17 Oct. 2024
  • Big bugs in either chartreuse or purple triggered the most takes, but the flies didn’t have a very long shelf life.
    Colin Kearns, Field & Stream, 5 Oct. 2020
  • An ounce and a half of whiskey, an ounce of vermouth, three-quarters of an ounce of green chartreuse and some orange peel.
    Peter Marks, Washington Post, 12 Sep. 2019
  • Burkes did well with a chartreuse Rooster Tail, while the rest of the crew used an assortment of spinners.
    Matt Wyatt, San Antonio Express-News, 9 Sep. 2021
  • The foliage colors of Coral Bells range from deep purple to chartreuse, green.
    Chris McKeown, The Enquirer, 18 May 2024
  • His favorite colors are blue body with a white tail, black body with a chartreuse tail or light blue.
    Flip Putthoff, Arkansas Online, 2 Mar. 2021
  • Katie’s mustard lettuce is a crinkly chartreuse, and the leaves form bouquets.
    Cynthia Kling, WSJ, 23 Mar. 2018

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