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teal

[ UK /tˈiːl/ ]
[ US /ˈtiɫ/ ]
NOUN
  1. a blue-green color or pigment
    they painted it a light shade of bluish green
  2. any of various small short-necked dabbling river ducks of Europe and America
ADJECTIVE
  1. of a bluish shade of green

How To Use teal In A Sentence

  • Stealing away, (whence, I suppose, the ironical phrase of trusty Trojan to this day,) like a thief — pretendedly indeed at the command of the gods; but could that be, when the errand he went upon was to rob other princes, not only of their dominions, but of their lives? — Clarissa Harlowe
  • There are but three ways of living: by working, by stealing, or by begging. 
  • He's come back to scrounge a meal and a bed, and he'll be off with what he's managed to steal before daybreak. THE BLACK OPAL
  • It features a group of con artists with a modicum of honour: they only steal from the greedy and the morally corrupt.
  • The inferior gluteal artery also assists in forming the cruciate anastomosis that forms around the neck and greater trochanter of the femur.
  • It has a warmer feel, thanks to teal walls, blonde wood and large light fixtures like softly glowing upside-down umbrellas.
  • Andreas was always trying to steal the key so that he could read it.
  • She subsequently has to steal, freeload and dumpster-dive to get by. Times, Sunday Times
  • Birding could produce a veritable spring of teal.
  • They having observed where the Chest stood, and wanting a necessary mooveable to houshold, yet loath to lay out money for buying it: complotted together this very night, to steale it thence, and carry it home to their house, as accordingly they did; finding it somewhat heavy, and therefore imagining, that matter of woorth was contained therein. The Decameron
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