sepia

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Recent Examples of sepia China's ambition to be the world's greatest space power is taking it to the Moon, to other planets—and to the sepia dust of Chile's Atacama Desert. Didi Kirsten Tatlow, Newsweek, 18 Dec. 2024 The Weeknd’s maze at Universal’s Halloween Horror Nights has an unsettling cocaine-freak-out energy that is a welcome counterbalance to mazes’ sepia tones and textbook monsters. Bethy Squires, Vulture, 24 Oct. 2024 Benjamin wrote of the angel — a curly-haired seraph in sepia tones, arms raised in excitement or alarm — as facing the past while being driven toward the future by a storm too strong for his wings to beat against: the storm of progress. Emily Labarge, New York Times, 2 Jan. 2025 Holmes accessorized with her sepia tinted aviators and a black beanie à la Timothée Chalamet à la Bob Dylan. Hannah Jackson, Vogue, 19 Dec. 2024 See All Example Sentences for sepia
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Noun
  • If top-to-bottom monochrome isn’t your style, this also comes in black and a lavender floral print, the latter of which was made for spring.
    Melony Forcier, Travel + Leisure, 20 Mar. 2025
  • And Markle isn’t the only famous face to wear a button-down matching set — Pamela Anderson wore a monochrome black style while visiting The Jimmy Fallon Show.
    Nicol Natale, People.com, 9 Mar. 2025
Noun
  • Full-spectrum color had been a photographic dream since the first daguerreotypes, and early moviemakers were no less determined to conjure a celluloid canvas that reflected life in all its splendor.
    Thomas Doherty, The Hollywood Reporter, 11 Mar. 2025
  • The 1846 daguerreotype, which captured her in her 70s, is by photographer John Plumbe Jr., who would also create the earliest extant image of the U.S. Capitol in 1846.
    Roger Catlin, Smithsonian Magazine, 31 Dec. 2024
Noun
  • Such work requires special attention to detail; dozens of soldiers’ photos are on computer screens.
    Daria Tarasova-Markina, CNN, 16 Mar. 2025
  • Spring celebration in Ocean Beach to highlight history The Ocean Beach Historical Society will host a celebration of spring featuring food and historical photos and artifacts from 4:30 to 7 p.m. Thursday, March 20, on the Wisteria Cottage patio at 4761 Niagara Ave.
    Point Loma-Ob Monthly, San Diego Union-Tribune, 16 Mar. 2025
Noun
  • The book, which has been published by Rizzoli New York and will be released in April, is a collection of photographs by Israeli photographer Dudi Hasson.
    Sofia Celeste, WWD, 14 Mar. 2025
  • In the weeks leading up to Victoria Goodwin's arrest, the couple shared loving photographs of each other on social media.
    Matt Lavietes, NBC News, 12 Mar. 2025
Noun
  • The exhibit includes tintype photographs that honor the legacy of Black families and highlight the richness of the Black community in Elgin, according to the department’s Facebook page.
    Mike Danahey, Chicago Tribune, 27 Feb. 2025
  • Comparing an 1860s tintype with an 1890s gelatin silver studio print shows the evolution of photographic processes.
    Andrea Kaston Tange, The Conversation, 6 May 2024

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“Sepia.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/sepia. Accessed 25 Mar. 2025.

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