sepia

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Recent Examples of sepia The decade is lushly integrated into the storyline, a soft focus and sepia tones bring an air of nostalgia to the fore as the sets and cast recreate the trappings of a gritty Madrid, 1979. Holly Jones, Variety, 17 Feb. 2025 The tea imparts a sweet flavor that carries right through to the yolk and a sepia tint that lends an antique, marbled look to the white. Saveur Editors, Saveur, 15 Jan. 2025 The sepia sky was filled with smoke, ash was falling, and as my car rounded a bend on the 110 Freeway, another phone alert blared to evacuate the area. Betty Hallock, Los Angeles Times, 12 Jan. 2025 China's ambition to be the world's greatest space power is taking it to the Moon, to other planets—and to the sepia dust of Chile's Atacama Desert. Didi Kirsten Tatlow, Newsweek, 18 Dec. 2024 See All Example Sentences for sepia
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Noun
  • The camera app presents a number of camera modes – night, video, picture, beauty, 108M, portrait, panorama, a GIF maker, macro, slow-mo, QR reader, and monochrome.
    Paul Ridden May 19, New Atlas, 19 May 2025
  • The pillow’s comfy, off-white terrycloth embodies Owens’ signature aesthetic of minimalism and monochrome, elevating your everyday lounging.
    Alia Yee Noll, Los Angeles Times, 19 May 2025
Noun
  • The daguerreotypes were commissioned by Harvard biologist Louis Agassiz, whose theories on racial difference were used to support slavery in the U.S.
    Leah Willingham, Christian Science Monitor, 28 May 2025
  • Although the daguerreotype required a high level of expertise, the process made the medium accessible to a wider range of enthusiasts.
    Vince Aletti, New Yorker, 24 May 2025
Noun
  • Associated Press text, photo, graphic, audio and/or video material shall not be published, broadcast, rewritten for broadcast or publication or redistributed directly or indirectly in any medium.
    Edward McKinnon, Arkansas Online, 28 May 2025
  • In the sweet photo, Alec could be seen holding up his granddaughter Holland as the two smiled together in a rare photo.
    Hannah Sacks, People.com, 27 May 2025
Noun
  • And then, in close-up, a bulldozer turns over rubble, and a family photograph is glimpsed in the debris, a tattered symbol of what has been lost.
    Catherine Bray, Variety, 25 May 2025
  • The statement did not specify what damage the plane encountered but photographs of the aircraft show a large hole in the nose.
    Rhea Mogul, CNN Money, 22 May 2025
Noun
  • This is especially evident as the show builds from format to format—including tintypes, ambrotypes, paper prints, and stereographs, each an improvement on the last where the maker’s control was concerned.
    Vince Aletti, New Yorker, 24 May 2025
  • Lifestyle Hauntingly beautiful tintype photos memorialize what was lost in Altadena April 30, 2025 Tell us about your outfit.
    Kailyn Brown, Los Angeles Times, 7 May 2025

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“Sepia.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/sepia. Accessed 3 Jun. 2025.

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