ochre

How To Use ochre In A Sentence

• Ochre and red rippled across the male's mantle, in the delicate, complex traceries of which only males were capable.
• What they got very right is the colour: ochre. Times, Sunday Times
• We get the red ochre by cooking the yellow over a fire.
• A land of sandy reds and ochre, a land of cloudy white grass. Times, Sunday Times
• The grave also contained offerings such as ochre and flint tools, axes, and seashells.
• One side of the painting is covered with energetic dabs of white and black over soft blue oblongs on a yellow ochre background.
• But the traditional colours used for the art remain ochre red and yellow, shades of blue and white and black.
• The piece is illustrated with images that demonstrate the austere intensity of his work since then, exquisite abstract interiors and still lifes executed in his preferred palette of white, grey, light ochre and sienna.
• Chickpeas are almost always sold in dried form, whether split or not, and are of an ochre or pale brown colour in this form.
• It was gloomy and old - fashioned, having low dark shops and dark green house doors with brass knockers, and yellow-ochred doorsteps projecting on to the pavement; then another old shop whose small window looked like a cunning, half-shut eye. Sons and Lovers