Sentence examples for dusky green from inspiring English sources

Males are green above and white below with a purple gorget, long bill, and dusky green flanks.

Then the nuances of color, as of a dusky green caressing a smoldering orange, trigger little shocks of perception.

Whereas males (of both subspecies) are distinctive in having a black head and dark wings, contrasting with the otherwise pale plumage, females are dusky green over the crown and nape, with largely dull yellow underparts, and mainly green upperparts.

Among farm-to-table cooks and those who sit down to dinner with them, asparagus heralds the start of the season's bounty in New Jersey, with the first dusky green stalks poking up in mid-April and the season winding down in late May or early June, depending on the weather.

Dusky green compatible with native plant palette.

A display case holds 20 jars filled with dusky green buds.

However, their exquisite color combinations — brick red and manila, blue and aqua, three dusky greens — impart gravitas.

The chef, Miles Thompson, late of the defunct modernist Echo Park restaurant Allumette, likes dusky greens and splashes of citrus, whole grains and pungent cheese, fermented things and custardy sauce.

The grounds are landscaped with dusky-green plants (no flowers, please), and the backyard holds a vegetable garden and a studio full of research materials that Ms. Oppewall used on films like "Catch Me if You Can," "Wonder Boys" and "The Bridges of Madison County".

From the hammock on our balcony looking over a dusky blue and green panorama, the rest of the city seemed at a safe and manageable remove.

"So the collection is a marriage of the two of them we're calling a 'modern western.' " That meant western riffs on the label's signature silhouettes — varsity-style jackets with studding detail, kimono jackets with a scurrying scorpion print and chiffon dresses in a cowpoke-appropriate plaid — in a desert-landscape-color palette heavy on cactus green, dusky pink and terra cotta orange.