How to Use tawny in a Sentence

tawny

1 of 2 adjective

• Here are the blue skies, the tawny hills, the grapevines tinged fierce red.
  — Krista Simmons, Sunset Magazine, 3 Nov. 2023
• The dogs -- two boys and a girl -- are black and tawny with big, adorable eyes.
  — CBS News, 3 Jan. 2018
• The hill is as green as Ireland in winter and spring, and a tawny brown the rest of the year.
  — Carl Nolte, SFChronicle.com, 21 Mar. 2020
• But winter isn’t, or at least doesn’t have to be, all tawny and gray.
  — Paul Cappiello, The Courier-Journal, 10 Jan. 2020
• Next, move on to the Smoked Fish, which is not smoked at all but deep-fried, then steeped in a tawny gravy.
  — The New Yorker, 17 Sep. 2021
• Soft tawny waves and petal pink lips tied the look together.
  — Akili King, Vogue, 2 June 2019
• The spare, tawny walls take on a rich glow under the light of dim chandeliers.
  — Esther Mobley, San Francisco Chronicle, 29 May 2018
• In an adjacent field, a tawny horse lifts its head from the grass to watch us drive by.
  — Leah Sottile, Longreads, 18 May 2018
• And birds of prey like buzzards, sparrowhawks, barn owls, and tawny owls.
  — Elizabeth Waddington, Treehugger, 13 Sep. 2023
• Most of their coat is tawny in color and covered in spots and lines, while the fur on their bellies is white.
  — Sarah Kuta, Smithsonian Magazine, 7 Feb. 2023
• Each day the tawny redheads mingle and cluck, drink water and peck at their food.
  — Meg Jones, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 23 Apr. 2020
• Photos show the long, lean cat is tawny in color with dark spots and has lengthy ears rounded at the top.
  — orlandosentinel.com, 14 Sep. 2020
• Her normally tawny skin flamed crimson red across the bridge of her nose and cheeks.
  — Marla Broadfoot, Scientific American, 1 Sep. 2021
• Her tawny tone had the heady effect of a bourbon with a rich bouquet and a smooth finish.
  — Jim Farber, New York Times, 30 Nov. 2022
• The donkeys grazed on a recent afternoon in the tall grass — tawny figures in a sea of green.
  — Washington Post, 11 Jan. 2020
• UR, IraqThe bleak and tawny desert of southern Iraq is a strange place to find dark tropical wood.
  — Mahan Kalpa, National Geographic, 11 Mar. 2016
• The only movement is his coat, a tangle of tawny dreadlocks that ripples and waves in the stiff wind.
  — Andrew McKean, Outdoor Life, 21 Feb. 2020
• Our pick: Rapture, a tawny brick red that looks that much better against a snowy backdrop.
  — Jenna Rennert, Vogue, 25 Dec. 2017
• All jawline and tawny hair, strapping, like he’s made of marble?
  — Christina Newland, Vulture, 18 Aug. 2021
• From a distance, the young male with the thick, tawny coat was distinguishable by a blue tag affixed to each ear.
  — Paul A. Smith, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 5 July 2017
• Pair them with the two shimmery highlighting shades: Low Key, a warm peach; and Party Foul, a cool, tawny pink.
  — Macaela MacKenzie, Allure, 13 Feb. 2018
• The Bad Santa is a warm cocktail with mulled red wine, tawny port, orange liqueur and Christmas spices.
  — Brandi Addison, Dallas News, 23 Dec. 2020
• Stronger blues will have many blue or greenish veins throughout and are more likely to have a tan or tawny tint and very strong smell.
  — Washington Post, 8 Sep. 2021
• Foxes and tawny owls are among the many animals calling it home.
  — Constant Méheut, New York Times, 28 Dec. 2022
• Gravel comes in a range of colors, including tawny browns and cool grays.
  — Elizabeth Jardina, Better Homes & Gardens, 14 Sep. 2021
• Robins, Wisconsin's state bird, are abundant and easy to spot in the Badger State in the spring, with their tawny bellies bobbing along the ground and in the air.
  — Chelsey Lewis, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 8 May 2020
• Most of the year, the green from the chlorophyll overpowers the carotenoids, says Heberling, but in the fall, as the chlorophyll starts to break down, all those bright, tawny colors start to show.
  — Washington Post, 20 Sep. 2020
• Right there, big as a horse, stood a tawny cow nilgai, broadside and oblivious at just 60 paces.
  — Dave Hurteau, Field & Stream, 4 Apr. 2023
• Thick veins pulsate along his tawny arms, which move in concert over the gold-grey nylon fishing net sprawled in front of him.
  — The Economist, 13 Jan. 2021
• Many of Argyle’s diamonds have a chocolatey brown or tawny hue.
  — Maya Wei-Haas, New York Times, 19 Sep. 2023

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tawny

2 of 2 noun

• As Zarate places the skewers on the cast iron, the strips of flesh sear on contact, the anticucho sauce sizzling into an instant tawny crust.
  — Patric Kuh, Los Angeles Magazine, 29 Sep. 2017
• Between us are a tawny Oriental rug and a table set with a pot of coffee and a spread of pastries in a striped Financier Patisserie box.
  — Amy Chozick, Vogue, 28 Aug. 2018
• Pour a delicate moscato with a fruit tart, a fortified tawny port with a decadent chocolate mousse.
  — Catherine Lo, Good Housekeeping, 10 Feb. 2011
• From the air, this lowland delta, covering an area the size of Nebraska, is a tawny-and-cobalt expanse of tundra and tributaries and lakes, its looping rivers etching a dazzling curlicue.
  — Simon Montlake, The Christian Science Monitor, 1 July 2019
• Continue whisking for up to 20-30 minutes on a very slow flame until the roux goes from a light tawny to the color of peanut butter or dark chocolate (depending on its eventual use).
  — Amy Brothers, The Denver Post, 11 May 2017
• Lunar eclipses occur when the sun and moon are in direct opposition, a phenomenon that temporarily turns the moon a tawny, red tone.
  — Aliza Kelly Faragher, Allure, 29 June 2018
• As Zarate places the skewers on the cast iron, the strips of flesh sear on contact, the anticucho sauce sizzling into an instant tawny crust.
  — Patric Kuh, Los Angeles Magazine, 29 Sep. 2017
• Between us are a tawny Oriental rug and a table set with a pot of coffee and a spread of pastries in a striped Financier Patisserie box.
  — Amy Chozick, Vogue, 28 Aug. 2018
• Pour a delicate moscato with a fruit tart, a fortified tawny port with a decadent chocolate mousse.
  — Catherine Lo, Good Housekeeping, 10 Feb. 2011
• From the air, this lowland delta, covering an area the size of Nebraska, is a tawny-and-cobalt expanse of tundra and tributaries and lakes, its looping rivers etching a dazzling curlicue.
  — Simon Montlake, The Christian Science Monitor, 1 July 2019
• Continue whisking for up to 20-30 minutes on a very slow flame until the roux goes from a light tawny to the color of peanut butter or dark chocolate (depending on its eventual use).
  — Amy Brothers, The Denver Post, 11 May 2017
• Lunar eclipses occur when the sun and moon are in direct opposition, a phenomenon that temporarily turns the moon a tawny, red tone.
  — Aliza Kelly Faragher, Allure, 29 June 2018

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