How To Use Pinkish In A Sentence
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They lived for some days on the excellent flesh of the maskalonge, on clams from the beach -- enormous clams of delicious flavor -- on a new fruit with a pinkish meat, which grew abundantly in the thickets and somewhat resembled breadfruit; on wild asparagus-sprouts, and on the few squirrels that Stern was able to "pot" with his revolver from the shelter of the leafy little camping-place they had arranged near the river.
Darkness and Dawn
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A small pinkishpurple flower that sprawls across dry ground is stork's-bill.
Times, Sunday Times
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The sun had begun to set, making the sky and clouds a strangely ominous pinkish hue.
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The paste stood out amongst its neighbours on the platter, not for its taste, but for its bright pinkish colour and shiny, gelatinous consistency - a treat to some, but not my personal fave.
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The same materials, thrown into the Martian atmosphere by strong winds, give the Martian sky a pinkish color.
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The ore is mineralogically martite schist, and the enclosing rocks are grayish, greenish and pinkish siliceous schists, of probable eruptive origin.
North Carolina and its Resources.
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The bill is a pinkish horn color and dark markings appear on the upper mandible.
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The heartwood is a red or pinkish color, the sapwood, which is considerable, is a creamy white.
Seasoning of Wood
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This brick weathers to a warm pinkish-brown colour.
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It is nature which appears to speak to us when she presents time-lapse photography of emerging seedlings, shots of swaying underwater flowers blooming or pinkish shots of the earth taken from space.
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Its quartz hills are covered with trees and gigantic grasses; the buaze, a small forest-tree, grows abundantly; it is a species of polygala; its beautiful clusters of sweet-scented pinkish flowers perfume the air with a rich fragrance; its seeds produce a fine drying oil, and the bark of the smaller branches yields a fibre finer and stronger than flax; with which the natives make their nets for fishing.
A Popular Account of Dr. Livingstone's Expedition to the Zambesi and Its Tributaries
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The large, showy flowers are actinomorphic, with a bowl-shaped corolla made up of 5-8 pinkish-red petals.
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The quaint pinkish-white flowers of the turtle-head showed in wet places, and instead of the lilac racemes of the purple-fringed orchis, which had disappeared with midsummer, we found now the slender braided spikes of the lady's-tresses, latest and lowliest of the orchids, pale and pure as nuns of the forest, and exhaling a celestial fragrance.
Little Rivers; a book of essays in profitable idleness
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The light had now changed to a soothing pinkish-white, but, more important,[Sentence dictionary] he was under gravity again.
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The chairs are all pinkish and soft from massive amounts of use, and the tables are nicely varnished, but not entirely pristine.
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The image was in stark contrast to Hollis ' first sight of her, face frozen with rigor mortis, pinkish foam oozing from her blue lips.
AMAGANSETT
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Lips and Gums -- Pinkish flesh shades .
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Sterile flowers terminal or axillary on wood of the preceding year, 1/2-3/4 inch long, cylindrical; anthers pinkish-red: fertile flowers lateral along previous season's shoots, erect; scales madder-purple, spirally imbricated, broader than long, margin entire or slightly erose.
Handbook of the Trees of New England
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A small pinkishpurple flower that sprawls across dry ground is stork's-bill.
Times, Sunday Times
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Clumps of these delicate little pinkish blossoms and abundant leaves, cuddled close to the cold earth of northern forests, usually conceal near the dry leaves or moss from which they spring blind flowers that never open -- cleistogamous the botanists call them -- flowers that lack petals, as if they were immature buds; that lack odor, nectar, and entrance; yet they are perfectly mature, self-fertilized, and abundantly fruitful.
Wild Flowers Worth Knowing
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This is probably the most colourful zone of our inshore waters and rocks are often a warm, pinkish-purple colour, thanks to encrusting algae.
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They each contain three pinkish "umeboshi" (salted, dry plums), but those on one of the plates have been preserved for just one year; the ones on the other plate - whose skins are a little more wrinkled - are three years old.
News On Japan
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From left to right appendages are: antennule, antenna, mandible, first and second maxillae, first through fifth maxillipeds, 3 walking legs, 5 pleopods with pinkish gills, and uropod.
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Indeed, for a pinkish, processed, canned luncheon meat surrounded in gelatinous gook, Spam has quite an amazing story to tell - and a uniquely American one at that.
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North American evergreen with small pinkish bell - shaped flowers and oblong leaves used formerly for shinplasters.
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Gobbets of pinkish-grey matter exploded from the exit wound below the right shoulder blade.
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Yet the colonel hadn't carried the pinkish overshade.
Cadmian's Choice
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Part way along there was an astonishing profusion of pinkish-white twinflowers alongside the trail.
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Naturally, all of the tie-dye shirts that I have bought at concerts or made myself over the past few years have faded to a white-pinkish mess after the first wash or two.
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Company records show that sometime before 1903 Fountain hotel maintenance personnel used the pinkish mud to ‘paint,’ or calcimine, many interior walls of the hotel.
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At that hour there were beautiful faint colours in everything — tender green of leaves, pinkish brown of earth and tree-trunks — like aquarelle washes that would vanish in the later glare.
Burmese Days
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On to each was dumped swiftly the regulation lunch -- a metal pannikin of pinkish-grey stew, a hunk of bread, a cube of cheese, a mug of milkless Victory Coffee, and one saccharine tablet.
Eat Well, Move More, Live Longer. . . ?
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You can't miss it - it's a bright, pinkish-tinted ‘star’, easily visible even near street lamps.
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Her nostrils were pinkish, as though she had a cold.
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The most highly prized datolites have concentrated copper inclusions near the center of the nodule and are pinkish-gray in color.
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With its skittle shape and pinkish-tan skin, it's seasonal and decorative, putting you in the mood for dark nights and Halloween before the harsh reality of winter kicks in.
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The heartwood is a red or pinkish color, the sapwood, which is considerable, is a creamy white.
Seasoning of Wood
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Body colors are mostly gray or brown; pink fairy armadillos have a pinkish shell and pure white, dense fur on their sides and venters.
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Glinting in the pinkish sunlight, the aircraft taxied slowly across the busy airport and took off on schedule 25 minutes later.
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Generally, there was a higher demand for yellow and pink tourmaline, as well as medium to deep blue aquamarine followed by amethyst and pinkish garnets.
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Reporting from Reno- The woman slouched on the steps of the rundown motel, her hair mussed, her pinkish outfit rumpled, her expression perplexed.
Latimes.com - News
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Her two very large, flesh-colored balloon sculptures initially resemble pinkish bubbles that have emerged from their blowpipe in contiguous clumps.
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Abundant pale pinkish-reddish to purple to colorless fluorite occurs as granular to monocrystalline masses and rarely as small simple cubes.
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Company records show that hotel maintenance personnel used the pinkish mud to ‘paint,’ or calcimine, many interior walls of the hotel.
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Generally, there was a higher demand for yellow and pink tourmaline, as well as medium to deep blue aquamarine followed by amethyst and pinkish garnets.
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Exercise is also great for skin and gives you a pinkish glow around the cheeks that send out loads of healthy vibes!
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By the next day her lips had swelled and turned the pale, pinkish hue of the underside of her tongue.
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The object made no noise, moved quickly, was ‘luminous’ green/yellow, and I noticed slight pinkish tinges around the edges.
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We also have the species Astrantia major with green flowers filled with pinkish stamen which quiver in the slightest of breezes.
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Inflammation causes small blood vessels in the conjunctiva to become more prominent, resulting in a pinkish or reddish cast to the whites of your eyes.
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South of them was mostly flat, pinkish desert, dotted with dark balloons of pinon and juniper, grey brushes of sage and chamisa.
A PLAGUE OF ANGELS
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They're looking for a specific color before they buy it or before they eat their sushi, trying to find that sort of brightish, pinkish color.
CNN Transcript Oct 8, 2004
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A thin mist floated like thistledown from the marshes, which were so distant that they were visible only as a pinkish edge to the horizon.
The Miller of Old Church
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Brangwyn's clever treatment of zoölogical and botanical detail is well shown in flowers in the foreground, such as foxglove and freesia, and the graceful forms of a pair of pinkish flamingoes.
The Art of the Exposition
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There was a large area of pinkish wet seeping through the bandage.
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On to each was dumped swiftly the regulation lunch -- a metal pannikin of pinkish-grey stew, a hunk of bread, a cube of cheese, a mug of milkless Victory Coffee, and one saccharine tablet.
Eat Well, Move More, Live Longer. . . ?
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The bobbin inside the left-hand jar was almost full of shiny pinkish thread, and it was rotating in a slow stately way in the air.
THE LIVES OF CHRISTOPHER CHANT
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While floating along and staring up at the pinkish rock walls, it suddenly seems as if the canyon has reached out and cupped me lightly in the palm of its hand.
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Did some research and they said the pinkish color comes from a pigment called astaxanthin which is in crustaceans.
I recently caught a nice rainbow (15") on a gold ribbed hares ear nymph.
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She adjusted the suit to reveal more of her pinkish flesh under the white piping that rimmed the bust line.
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She has that awful early adolescent pudge, and white, freckly pinkish skin.
Blind Melon No Rain
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The yellow or pinkish flesh contains edible, crunchy little seeds.
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Aardvarks are covered with thick pinkish-grey skin that protects them from insect bites and may even save them from predators.
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Those pinkish ones with the patterns and the wavy lines and the serration, or whatever you call it.
A THIEF OF TIME
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The quaint pinkish-white flowers of the turtle-head showed in wet places, and instead of the lilac racemes of the purple-fringed orchis, which had disappeared with midsummer, we found now the slender braided spikes of the lady's-tresses, latest and lowliest of the orchids, pale and pure as nuns of the forest, and exhaling a celestial fragrance.
Little Rivers; a book of essays in profitable idleness
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It is, on the face of it, a mute slab of pinkish grey meat sweating lightly in its clingfilm wrapper, a lacklustre staple of our English diet with nothing much to say for itself.
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Berry shades for example suit olive skins, while reds with pinkish undertones work best on those with fair complexions and fair hair.
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The C. deceptive should have pale pinkish spore print, adnate to decurrent gills about the same colour of the cap, which should be pale brown or greyish with incurved margins.
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Her pinkish red hair was braided and arranged neatly in a circle on her head.
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Endowed with pinkish-gray, wrinkly skin, scant hair, and long buck teeth, naked mole-rats aren't likely to win any beauty contests.
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Her nostrils were pinkish, as though she had a cold.
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Male and female birds are very similar, with the hens distinguished only by their brighter, pinkish-red irides.
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The pinkish purple light of dawn blanketed my room, and I was just blinking my blurry eyes at my digital clock when the door was flung open and Mrs. Shepard, our housemother, looked inside.
Ominous
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Roast it on the tava on both side till you see pinkish spots.
Archive 2009-04-01
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In one episode, a small, pinkish earwig-type creature scuttles across the floor, up a man's pants and into his mouth.
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Its quartz hills are covered with trees and gigantic grasses; the buaze, a small forest-tree, grows abundantly; it is a species of polygala; its beautiful clusters of sweet-scented pinkish flowers perfume the air with a rich fragrance; its seeds produce a fine drying oil, and the bark of the smaller branches yields a fibre finer and stronger than flax; with which the natives make their nets for fishing.
A Popular Account of Dr. Livingstone's Expedition to the Zambesi and Its Tributaries
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Within the transparency, amorphous shapes glowed a pinkish grey, punctuated with darker, circular masses.
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The salvinorins react with this chromogenic reagent to produce pinkish-purple spots on the plates.
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When he opened his eyes again he was staring at a pinkish whirlpool running into the drain.
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The fruit has a pinkish-orange skin, with smooth, finely textured orange flesh that's easy to separate from the small stone, or pit.
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Purple spodumene (kunzite) is pinkish to lilac in shade -- usually pale, unless in large masses, and it shows very marked dichroism.
A Text-Book of Precious Stones for Jewelers and the Gem-Loving Public
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This historic chick, warm golden brown, with a short bill not yet black but pinkish orange, resembles a large downy pullet with no tail.
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The cells of the glands contain bright pink fluid, charged with granules or with globular masses of pinkish pulpy matter.
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Widely cultivated ornamental, but poisonous flowering shrub with evergreen leaves and clusters of fragrant pinkish or red flowers.
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While we slowly drifted, the sea first reflected patches of pinkish purple then took on a golden hue, and the calm waters rippled from diving ducks and a lone humpback whale.
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Its freestone fruit - about average in size - has an attractive pinkish-orange skin.
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Boned saddle of lamb was roasted, barely seasoned and, though tender and pinkish, was really rather boring and not quite hot enough.
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The background is a cloudscape that is toned slightly pinkish.
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As we drift downstream, the cliffs soar upward in a layered tapestry of pastels: pinkish limestone, buff-colored sandstone, and deep-red shale.
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A disease of grasses appearing as grayish-white or pinkish patches after heavy snow has melted and caused by fungi that thrive at low temperatures.
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At the Tracy Reese fashion show this weekend, the designer will be trotting out flouncy skirts in soft, crinkled silk georgettes, lightweight fabrics such as organza and cotton and lively patterns that feature massive flowers and grass blades done in pale blue, green and pinkish red.
The All-Weather Wardrobe
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The father sea-spider carries about the eggs attached to two of his limbs; the father sea-horse puts his mate's eggs into his breast pocket and carries them there in safety until they are hatched; the father stickleback of the shore-pools makes a seaweed nest and guards the eggs which his wives are induced to lay there; the father lumpsucker mounts guard over the bunch of pinkish eggs which his mate has laid in a nook of a rocky shore-pool, and drives off intruders with zest.
The Outline of Science, Vol. 1 (of 4) A Plain Story Simply Told
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When the fish near market size, farmers add astaxanthin, a pigment similar to beta-carotene, to their feed to give their gray flesh a salmony pinkish glow.
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Young Pigfish are pinkish with thin stipes on the sides of the body and red lines on the head.
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The salad was bound with pomegranate molasses, avocado oil, and a platoon of toasted pecans, and the trout turned out to be pinkish and meaty, like salmon, with a light, freshwater taste.
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They were paler than pretty average, with the sort of freckly, pinkish skin of those occasional littlies born extra sensitive to the sun.
Scott Westerfeld: Uglies Quartet
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She has that awful early adolescent pudge, and white, freckly pinkish skin.
Blind Melon No Rain
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In fact, African flamingos get their pink color from eating a diet super-rich in the pinkish blue-green algae, spirulina.
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In addition to amethyst and citrine quartz we have the pinkish, milky quartz known as "_rose quartz_.
A Text-Book of Precious Stones for Jewelers and the Gem-Loving Public
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Then there is the resumption of the Lissadell and Texas Downs stations, which are these pieces at the bottom in pinkish colour, cerise.
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Standing a bit over 6 feet tall, the bronzes had received a light, slightly pinkish, gray-ocher patina that strongly evokes classical statuary.
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Most are pinkish purple and range from transparent to almost opaque, the latter often being extensively cracked.
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With light streaming in from the rooflights, the hallway is transformed into the heart of the building, the deep raspberry of the boundary wall reflecting back onto the white plaster to create an unexpected pinkish radiance.
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The pileus is expanded, umbonate, thin except at the umbo, minutely floccose squamulose, no pinkish tinge noted; the flesh is white, but on the umbo changing to flesh color where wounded.
Studies of American Fungi. Mushrooms, Edible, Poisonous, etc.
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The coarse white sand of the sea floor contrasted with the pinkish walls with their splattering of yellow, orange and red anemones.
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Others have ‘purple ‘flowers, ranging from deep, slaty purple to pinkish purple; some with lines or spots of a darker color.’
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Here in spring you can see wood anemones bluebells and an unusual plant with pinkish flowers called coralroot bittercress.
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A nice covering of skin with a good tone and pinkish cheeks can alter a person's face entirely.
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Most of them have flowers of the eyewatering pinkish-scarlet which is characteristic of the species, with just a few in shades of brilliant coral for maximum clash.
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She was wearing a coat of an indeterminate pinkish, orangeish, reddish colour that I will call ‘hot salmon’.
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Sure enough, there on his pinkish finger was a smear of crimson blood.
