How to Use ecru in a Sentence

ecru

noun

• Grab it in black like Oprah, or shop it in spring-ready ecru or latte.
  — Nicola Fumo, Peoplemag, 26 Apr. 2023
• In a sea of white, ecru and ivory, two major players in the bridal game were seeing red for Spring 2013.
  — Kerry Pieri, Harper's BAZAAR, 17 Apr. 2012
• The ecru shade appears on the back pockets and waistband, while the legs are classic white—and totally opaque, for the record.
  — Emily Farra, Vogue, 6 Apr. 2018
• Shown in neutral ecru, the shoe comes in 26 different colors and prints.
  — Irene S. Levine, Forbes, 19 Apr. 2023
• The style is also available in a medium and small size, and camel and ecru colorways.
  — Sophie Dweck, Town & Country, 19 July 2023
• The plates, cups, bowls, and pitcher use the same shade of ecru, but they’re illustrated with soft blue sketches of grass.
  — Liz Stinson, Curbed, 16 Aug. 2019
• Two square inches is hardly enough to tell a room’s worth of difference between eggshell and ecru.
  — Sunset, 22 Jan. 2018
• The folder is, at first glance, unremarkable: gray, archival, tied with a small, neat ecru ribbon.
  — Sarah Wildman, The New Yorker, 12 Feb. 2016
• Available in either pale pink or ecru, this roomy bag is large enough to house your daily essentials.
  — Melissa Lee, USA TODAY, 9 Apr. 2020
• Crinkled linen jackets in ecru and tans appeared light as air, complemented by sheer skirts and matching tops to counter the linen.
  — Kevin Leblanc, ELLE, 16 Mar. 2023
• This muted ecru color goes with anything and will never go out of style, but packs a more stylish punch than your standard black or white sneaker.
  — Christian Gollayan, Men's Health, 7 Mar. 2023
• These monochrome ecru canvas sneakers will definitely get us to that state of mind.
  — Isaiah Freeman-Schub, Robb Report, 16 Mar. 2023
• Or maybe ecru, which is one of my favorite words that appears with regularity in the New York Times crossword puzzle.
  — Ken Otterbourg, Longreads, 24 Feb. 2018
• Stacks of firewood echo the stairs’ rigid lines, and the hall is bare except for a collection of straw hats that Alegre’s girlfriend, Cristina Carulla, hung on an ecru plaster wall.
  — Lauren Collins, New York Times, 11 May 2018
• The green hues - also used in up lighting -- complemented the party's color palette of white, ecru, gold, and silver.
  — Sue Strachan, NOLA.com, 10 July 2017
• And what a car for us two chinchillas looking to detox: a 1960 Cadillac El Dorado in ecru with a Coke-bottle red interior.
  — Hannah Elliott, Bloomberg.com, 19 May 2017
• Decorators offer expert advice on using ecru as the new go-to color in your home.
  — Kelsey Mulvey, Southern Living, 2 Aug. 2023
• In the photo with an ecru background, the royals coordinate by donning various shades of light blue.
  — Erin Jensen, USA TODAY, 18 Dec. 2017
• The pieces keep in a warm family of hues — terracotta, ecru and slate —and leverage timeless floral prints so nothing feels too trend-driven.
  — Isabel Greenberg, Harper's BAZAAR, 4 Sep. 2018
• The restaurant is charmingly old school with its walls newly painted in hues of ecru and charcoal, and banquettes reupholstered in a floral pattern.
  — Suzanne Loudermilk, baltimoresun.com, 27 Apr. 2017
• An image released by the magazine shows her in an ecru midcalf trumpet skirt with a white windowpane print and matching belted shell.
  — Vanessa Friedman, New York Times, 29 Nov. 2016
• Each pair is high-top and comes in stunning ecru crochet, blue seersucker, indigo denim, ecru denim, white leather, black leather, powder pink leather and midnight blue leather.
  — Alyssa Hardy, Teen Vogue, 12 Sep. 2017
• Mix in different shades like ecru, alabaster, and ivory that will create a visual separation between your layers to amp up the visual interest.
  — Lauren Hubbard, ELLE Decor, 1 May 2019
• Grab it in black like Oprah, or shop it in spring-ready ecru or latte.
  — Nicola Fumo, Peoplemag, 26 Apr. 2023
• In a sea of white, ecru and ivory, two major players in the bridal game were seeing red for Spring 2013.
  — Kerry Pieri, Harper's BAZAAR, 17 Apr. 2012
• The ecru shade appears on the back pockets and waistband, while the legs are classic white—and totally opaque, for the record.
  — Emily Farra, Vogue, 6 Apr. 2018
• Shown in neutral ecru, the shoe comes in 26 different colors and prints.
  — Irene S. Levine, Forbes, 19 Apr. 2023
• The style is also available in a medium and small size, and camel and ecru colorways.
  — Sophie Dweck, Town & Country, 19 July 2023
• The plates, cups, bowls, and pitcher use the same shade of ecru, but they’re illustrated with soft blue sketches of grass.
  — Liz Stinson, Curbed, 16 Aug. 2019
• Two square inches is hardly enough to tell a room’s worth of difference between eggshell and ecru.
  — Sunset, 22 Jan. 2018

Last Updated: 5 Sep 2024