Sentence examples for faintly green from inspiring English sources

Spanish moss turns faintly green when damp and stands out in a winter landscape of grays and browns.

When he returned, he'd taken off his coat and was carrying two glasses of white wine, the glass faintly green, stems twisted like barley sugar.

Except that, every so often, the view from above reveals an expanse still faintly green: a sports oval, part of every community, home to the local cricket and football club, and now frequently the base for efforts to accommodate the displaced and traumatised.

It features a truly sinister, faintly green-tinted version of Fay Godwin's photograph of a heavily bespectacled, "death-suited" Larkin gazing at the camera as if about to grow cloak and fangs, then pounce and live up to his billing as the Beast of the Brynmor Jones Library.

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This bird is marinated with fresh herbs and balsamic vinegar, then cooked to the color of aged bronze and served over sautéed, faintly bitter greens and a garlicky purée of white beans.

Proceed on to the 12th hole, for my money the truest expression of Steel's course: a long but wide-open par-3 that features a huge and faintly Redan-style green that nevertheless holds a strong shot.

In O. latifolia all chromosomes were painted by E-genome signals, whereas in O. alta and O. grandiglumis all chromosomes were painted by C-genome signals (red), in which merely some of the chromosomes showed the E-genome signals (green) faintly or strongly near centromere regions.

I liked other appetizers as well: a dandelion salad with red onion and hard-boiled egg, the greens faintly bitter and so fresh they called to mind kite flying against a brilliant blue spring sky; gently sauteed calamari with sweet chunks of onions and green peas in a mild white wine sauce; and another of shrimp cooked with butter and Sambuca over garlic toast.

It tasted (dorky, but true) like the tropics: sweet and green and faintly briny.

Everything tastes green and faintly spicy, as if it were all just dug up from the soil, rinsed and served.