How to Use polychromatic in a Sentence

polychromatic

adjective
  • The show fills in all the blanks and takes place in a polychromatic 1948 that suggests the Technicolor melodramas of Douglas Sirk.
    Darren Franich, EW.com, 14 Sep. 2020
  • Google had placed a black rectangle over its polychromatic logo; Wikipedia’s Web site was turned black; and Craigslist was shuttered.
    Vanityfair.com, VanityFair.com, 9 Feb. 2017
  • The treatment is capped off with polychromatic LED light therapy.
    Lesleymck, Variety, 13 Oct. 2021
  • Look through it and into the two drapes behind, and is as if the viewer’s vision is being filtered three times over resulting in an abyssal, polychromatic illusion.
    Seth Combs Writer, San Diego Union-Tribune, 28 Feb. 2021
  • Leaf peepers can hike, mountain bike, or ride on horseback through the polychromatic forest and stay at the Stoweflake Mountain Resort and Spa, which offers special fall tours by car, boat, or zip line.
    Stacey Leasca, Travel + Leisure, 15 Aug. 2023
  • The archway, which has been here for more than 30 years, straddles H Street and stands as a polychromatic symbol of China, near a crosswalk that has been decorated with signs of the Chinese zodiac.
    Martin Weil, Washington Post, 24 Sep. 2017
  • The exhibition’s candy-colored archway, made from nine different slabs of polychromatic onyx, became one of the most Instagrammed items of the week.
    Anna Fixsen, ELLE Decor, 14 June 2022
  • The $1,400 printer is long on potential, but is currently short on polychromatic goodness.
    Joseph Flaherty, WIRED, 25 Jan. 2013
  • If daylight isn't readily available, researchers said polychromatic white light enriched in short wavelengths—a cool, white LED light at about 6500K, based on current lighting options—is the next best option.
    Ashley Abramson, Health.com, 19 Apr. 2022
  • The amplifier is designed, engineered and built in the UK and has the unmistakable polychromatic spherical controls which are used to select the power and gain controls.
    Mark Sparrow, Forbes, 21 Sep. 2021
  • Rihanna and Khaled carry out that concept by dressing in bright-hued outfits, serving up some serious polychromatic summer looks straight off the runway.
    Katie Skinner, Billboard, 16 June 2017
  • From a windowless control room nearby, a team of engineers in blue and orange coveralls monitored the operation, their faces lit by the polychromatic glow from a hodgepodge of screens.
    WIRED, 28 Feb. 2023
  • To subtly invigorate the room’s neutral palette and satisfy the husband’s thirst for polychromatic moments, Mr. McCarthy hung the walls with unlethargic art.
    Kathryn O’Shea-Evans, WSJ, 21 June 2018
  • Known as la fioritura, this annual flowering creates a stunning polychromatic visual across the plateau of Castelluccio di Norcia in the Umbria region of the country.
    Kelly Corbett, House Beautiful, 14 July 2020
  • The seemingly polychromatic image is actually black-and-white, overlaid with a thin multicolored grid.
    Stephen MacKnik, Scientific American, 12 Nov. 2019
  • Sculptures in both civilizations were also richly polychromatic; their colors washed away with time or scrubbed clean by misinformed restorers in later centuries.
    Steven Litt, cleveland, 23 July 2021
  • While requisite health protocols, including a ban on spectators, have sapped the Games of both color and human connection, the stores have become a substitute arena of polychromatic cultural discovery for some.
    New York Times, 1 Aug. 2021
  • With their assortment, the pair wanted to offer easy, multifunctional products that reflected Ribeiro’s polychromatic outlook.
    Christian Allaire, Vogue, 27 Sep. 2022
  • At gala soirees after 2010, Franca surprised with choices that were polychromatic and histrionic, or candidly ethereal, with macro prints, animalier, feathers, embroidery, and important jewelry.
    Federico Chiara, Vogue, 19 Sep. 2022
  • The new fascia has a perfectly symmetrical design, centered on a circular power on/off sphere which uses the company’s familiar polychromatic indicator lighting, offering a clear and simple indication of the amplifier’s status.
    Mark Sparrow, Forbes, 4 May 2022

Some of these examples are programmatically compiled from various online sources to illustrate current usage of the word 'polychromatic.' Any opinions expressed in the examples do not represent those of Merriam-Webster or its editors. Send us feedback about these examples.

Last Updated: