pea-green

ADJECTIVE
  1. of a moderate slightly yellowish-green color
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How To Use pea-green In A Sentence

  • How exciting to be invited to come to the White House, see 'the garden' (new meaning to the term pea-green with envy) as the fabulous first lady drafted us all into the service of our country's children to ensure their healthy future. Liz Neumark: Food Activist Goes to Washington
  • Here and there that woods harlequin, the madrone, permitting itself to be caught in the act of changing its pea-green trunk to madder-red, breathed its fragrance into the air from great clusters of waxen bells. All Gold Canon
  • ‘By no means, reverend Lady; They are of a delicate pea-green with flame-coloured hair and whiskers.’ The Monk
  • Here and there that woods harlequin, the madrone, permitting itself to be caught in the act of changing its pea-green trunk to madder-red, breathed its fragrance into the air from great clusters of waxen bells. All Gold Cañon
  • As the workers stared dumfounded at the pipe, young girls in pea-green hairnets were passing out pea-green gloves to members of the pea-green battalion.
  • Dense tufts of pea-green underwater foliage, rising to the surface during the summer and affording shelter for fish and their fry.
  • The policeman was sitting at a table in a pea-green woman's raincoat with big glass buttons. WHITE LIES
  • By midsummer, the water was mucid, pea-green, fermenting, almost bubbling with corruption.
  • Besides, I saw my friend, the journeyman dyer, in close confabulation with a pea-green personage of his own profession, and was conscious, like Scrub, that they talked of me, because they laughed consumedly. Redgauntlet
  • Doctor Praetorius at least, walked into the studio, where the perfumer was seated in a very glossy old silk dressing-gown, his fair hair hanging over his white face, his double chin over his flaccid whity-brown shirt-collar, his pea-green slippers on the hob, and on the fire the pot of chocolate which was simmering for his breakfast. Mens Wives
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