How To Use Olive green In A Sentence

  • German Victorian Scrap of matte olive green ivy and brown Baroque border; 3 yards of ribbon; 4 brass snowflake charms, 2 plastic leaves and a white glass "navette"; 4 cards and coordinating envelopes and 2 glittery bird tags; a collage sheet of vintage, French holiday postcards; and a rubber stamp of snowflakes I got from a French dictionary! ScrapScene
  • Dirty olive green over the whole back; belly dirty white; scuta 130. Journals of expeditions of discovery into Central Australia, and overland from Adelaide to King George's Sound, in the years 1840-1
  • Other colours include midnight black, ocean blue, rose pink and olive green.
  • The puzzle shapes fill about half the canvas; they are opposed by an irregularly edged area of olive green populated by vertical bands.
  • Wild flowers crowd your vision - a dazzling kaleidoscope of colour against an olive green background.
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  • In front of me to my left, and facing me almost full-on but not quite: a handsome, lightly muscular man, fair-haired, quite craggy looking, in an olive green vest, and all on his own.
  • Army uniforms are often olive green.
  • His shooting uniform of olive greens and tweeds as tribal as the black Sunday outfits of the Lewis churchgoers.
  • In the same woods, we also saw the large saddleback and the bellbird, the former with a glossy black head and body and a bright chestnut ‘saddle’ across its back, the latter, olive green with a red eye and a loud, clear ringing call.
  • I noted that Captain Haddock's shirt contained some primrose yellow within its subtle pinstripe pattern; a colour that is very in at the moment, handsomely complemented by his olive green ‘safari’ waistcoat.
  • The male is a beautiful bird, a bright olive green with yellow patches on his wings. Times, Sunday Times
  • He wore jeans and a long-sleeved knit shirt of a type of olive green that brought out the emerald of his eyes.
  • She was dressed in loose-fitting olive green fatigues and her face was partially obscured behind a red bandanna. THE DEVIL'S DOOR
  • When we were packing up to leave last week I had occasion to re-fondle the Fyberspates yarn in dreary olive green which I had laid out to take to Alyth to donate to charity. Archive 2009-09-01
  • The Cold War saw starched olive green - 107 fatigues, with name tapes and US ARMY added by 1954.
  • She wore a soft yellow and olive green plaid gown with a sweetheart neckline and sleeves that reached just slightly past her elbows.
  • And no longer do the staff wear boring olive green jackets, now they have natty blue ones.
  • The period detail has been painstakingly recreated and it is shot in a sombre palette of olive greens and sepia tones.
  • +Cap+ from 3 to 5 inches broad, of an olive green color, sometimes greenish umber, covered with a silky bloom, fleshy, gibbous, then plano-depressed and funnel-shaped, cuticle here and there separable; margin at first inflexed, then spreading. Among the Mushrooms A Guide For Beginners
  • Naturally occurring impurities in the constituent ingredients gave glass an olive green hue which varied from pale to almost black and was beneficial to the bottled wine as it excluded light.
  • The couches in the living room - there were about 20 of them - were upholstered with bubble-gum pink flowers on an olive green background.
  • The male is a beautiful bird, a bright olive green with yellow patches on his wings. Times, Sunday Times
  • The male is a beautiful bird, a bright olive green with yellow patches on his wings. Times, Sunday Times
  • Delhi: Resplendent in an olive green 'kurta' with leaf motifs, former cricket skipper Kapil Dev lent glitz on Saturday to India's WN.com - Articles related to Wills Lifestyle India Fashion Week kicks off in New Delhi
  • They have wide faces, broad bills and luminous olive green and yellow plumage.
  • Reddish grey, sometimes almost olive green in colour, with white blotches and sparse, coarse bristles, the animal has no comeliness, and yet when a herd frolics in the water, rising in unison with graceful undulatory movements for air, and the sunlight flashes in helioscopic rays from wet backs, the spectacle is rare and fine. The Confessions of a Beachcomber
  • He has short, dark hair which is semi-shaven and was wearing a three-quarter length olive green army style jacket.
  • The rocks are coated with thick black slime out of reach of the 150 young soldiers with olive green shower capes and buckets and spades to shovel up the filth.
  • It's 30 miles upriver to the falls and, as we tunnel deeper into the Devil's Canyon, the river becomes slowly more sinister, wreathed with mist olive green.
  • The period detail has been painstakingly recreated and it is shot in a sombre palette of olive greens and sepia tones.
  • Fiery red blossoms float amongst olive green leaves that are heavily mottled with chocolate and maroon.
  • He smacked his choppy lips, his moist skin dark olive green in the candlelight.
  • Other colours include midnight black, ocean blue, rose pink and olive green.
  • Colours this season are ivory, camel, many shades of brown, red, burgundy, moss and olive green, and, of course, black.
  • Dirty olive green on the back, from the neck to the tail; scuta 147, dirty reddish orange; head black from the nose to neck; sides of the head white; tongue forked. Journals of expeditions of discovery into Central Australia, and overland from Adelaide to King George's Sound, in the years 1840-1
  • The overriding colours are natural hues of tan, brown and olive greens contrasted with a bright white base, to give a soft, earthy look.
  • The compact is a olive green cosmetic-like container with an acrylic mirror to assist in self application.
  • On the ivory shelves you see some soft orchid linen galligaskins, some buttercup yellow doeskin galligaskins, some pale celadon silk galligaskins, some deep crimson satin galligaskins, some olive green wool galligaskins, some onyx black velvet galligaskins, some dark umber leather galligaskins and some bright cyan twill galligaskins.
  • The fuselage appears to be painted in olive green while the flying surface appears to be finished in silver.
  • The tyranny of custom, it is true, compels your friend and myself to dress peculiarly, but I assure you nothing could be finer than the way that the olive green of your coat melts in the delicate yellow of your cravat, or the pearl gray of your trousers blends with the bright blue of your waistcoat, and lends additional brilliancy to that massive oroide watch-chain which you wear. Drift from Two Shores
  • Ryan laughed from his comfy seat on the olive green armchair.
  • I sat down and opened my olive green binder to a blank sheet of loose-leaf paper.
  • Wildlife Watching Supplies stock a wide range of materials, olive green or camouflage pattern, lightweight, medium and heavy weight, showerproofed polycotton and waterproof nylon.
  • The airless colour palette of olive green, avocado and mustard suggests a home locked in a time a few generations past. Times, Sunday Times
  • These will be in keeping with the dark, vivid colours within the store which includes deep reds and olive greens.
  • Alfie widdles all the way down his light olive green mix wool trousers.
  • Their heads, sides and necks are grey, and their backs, wings and tail feathers olive green.
  • The drop section of the comforter is olive green and the color scheme is perfect for blending into a room featuring natural, earth colors.
  • Rooms are discreetly tasteful with blonde wood floorboards and olive green furnishings, though ours reeks of smoke from the previous guest. Times, Sunday Times
  • And as I later said, I thought everything was painted olive green forevermore, and I thought the world would always be at war because people were going to war or coming home from war.
  • Bright blue or olive green look great with blue eyes, while vivid green brings out the hazel in brown eyes. Times, Sunday Times
  • In a sheltered cove, the small dive boat we are sitting in wobbles slightly on the olive green water.
  • The overriding colours are natural hues of tan, brown and olive greens contrasted with a bright white base, to give a soft, earthy look.
  • Nothing is out of the ordinary when my lime green beehive tops an olive green and white suit.
  • I was wearing an olive green tube top that showed off my belly button.

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