How to Use sepia in a Sentence

sepia

noun

• The switch again from the sepia-toned film to the full-color foliage of a new realm.
  — Ling Ma, The Atlantic, 16 May 2022
• These are problems that no amount of sepia can wash away.
  — New York Times, 27 Aug. 2021
• The viewers come in neutral shades of gray and sepia, as well as in capri blue.
  — Michelle Matthews | [e-mail], al, 20 July 2023
• The first few scenes of Stalker are urban ones, shot in sepia.
  — Josephine Livingstone, New Republic, 2 June 2017
• With just a touch of shimmer and a rich sepia tone, the dress was a perfect choice for the 41-year-old mom of five.
  — Rebekah Lowin, Country Living, 24 Nov. 2019
• The result is a fond, earnest, sepia-toned book, the color of old clippings.
  — New York Times, 5 Jan. 2022
• Hanging in the air was a thick cloud of yellow dust that looked more like a sepia-toned fog.
  — Steve Annear, BostonGlobe.com, 31 May 2022
• Melancholy string music plays over the rich, sepia tones.
  — Los Angeles Times, 19 Oct. 2020
• Yet the sources of mistrust of Covid-19 vaccine trials aren’t just sepia-toned.
  — Eric Boodman, STAT, 25 Sep. 2020
• For the love of Aluche, do not use sepia filters for scenes set in Mexico.
  — Fidel Martinez, Los Angeles Times, 28 Apr. 2022
• One, done in about 1847, shows the outline of the cathedral’s two towers set in a sepia-colored fog.
  — Elaine Sciolino, Smithsonian Magazine, 9 Sep. 2020
• Some changes, such as adding a filter to make the photo sepia or black and white, will still be flagged by the system.
  — Samantha Murphy Kelly, CNN, 27 Feb. 2023
• It’s all draped in an evocative sepia tone, more home-carved and burnished than late-night noir.
  — Noah Shachtman, Rolling Stone, 18 Mar. 2023
• Over the course of two weeks the artist set the stage by making the first marks with a sepia tone crayon for each distinct image.
  — John Zotos, Dallas News, 1 Aug. 2019
• The sepia-toned pic pays total homage to the old cover, but with a more modern update.
  — Carolyn Twersky, Seventeen, 12 Feb. 2021
• But, of course, the memory was still there, sepia at the edges with shame, and, like a gust of wind, Brathwaite’s death had pulled it back up.
  — Gabrielle Bellot, The New York Review of Books, 27 Feb. 2020
• Teens can print photos in black and white, color, or sepia tones and even opt for a border.
  — Lindsey Hunter Lopez, USA TODAY, 17 Mar. 2021
• For pale skin, this can mean sepia browns, while medium and olive skin tones can go for milk chocolate shades.
  — Georgia Day, Vogue, 11 Oct. 2023
• The woman in the sepia toned photo from the 1890s appears dark complected.
  — Nora Mathison, Scientific American, 28 Sep. 2023
• Taylor caught in sepia both the isolation and the camaraderie of camp life.
  — Dan Rodricks, baltimoresun.com, 27 May 2017
• The sky overhead was a smoky sepia as fire crews from across the region battled nearby flames, Buzzell said.
  — Lyndsay Winkley, sandiegouniontribune.com, 10 Oct. 2017
• Reading mode turns the screen grayscale and then applies a night mode-style sepia tone to everything.
  — Ron Amadeo, Ars Technica, 20 June 2017
• Twenty-four teams played there through the first two rounds, some bathed in the sepia tones of late-afternoon light that streams through the windows.
  — Billy Witz, New York Times, 26 Mar. 2021
• Print black-and-white or sepia-tone photos and glue them atop plain paper shipping tags.
  — Sarah Martens, Better Homes & Gardens, 1 Oct. 2022
• The 48-card set features players in black and white or sepia portrait photos.
  — Marc Bona, cleveland, 21 Mar. 2021
• At night the Mission District restaurant grows sepia-toned.
  — Esther Mobley, San Francisco Chronicle, 29 May 2018
• The video, posted the day after Russia launched an invasion of Ukraine, is lit in sepia tones.
  — Washington Post, 28 Feb. 2022
• The close-up of Stormi's face is next to a sepia-toned photo of Kylie that appears to be from when the 25-year-old was a toddler herself.
  — Angela Andaloro, Peoplemag, 13 Jan. 2023
• There’s an old sepia-toned post card featuring the faces of that old 1878 Clinton baseball team.
  — Thomas Farragher, BostonGlobe.com, 15 Apr. 2022
• The resulting haze puts a natural sepia filter on the city at dusk.
  — WIRED, 13 Nov. 2023

Last Updated: 5 Sep 2024