Sentence examples for tones of sand from inspiring English sources
The term stiletto, with its vixenish associations, does not aptly describe the airy plastic sandals at Donna Karan, Calvin Klein and Michael Kors; the color-block pumps at Proenza Schouler; the dainty pink latticework pumps at Cynthia Rowley; or the perforated flower sandals at Zac Posen, in tones of sand and Wedgwood blue.
Similarly, desert animals are almost all desert coloured in tones of sand, buff, ochre, and brownish grey, whether they are mammals like the gerbil or fennec fox, birds such as the desert lark or sandgrouse, or reptiles like the skink or horned viper.
Is a beach about the muted, natural tones of sand and surf, or would you like some bright, tropical colors in the mix, too?
The colour scheme was toned down from the earth tones of red, sand and orange that dominated Season 3. Instead, the palette was creme, beige, nude, brown and muted pistachio.
It is one of the charming if unintended ironies of this book that Mitchell takes as his icon Nietzsche's builder of sand castles but avoids the philosopher's dark, Germanic tone.
In "Looking for the Deep Blue," "Fathoms Unknown, Navigation Futile" and "Captive of the Undertow," all from this year, Ms. Maier uses cut aluminum cans, where the blue-and-green tones of the painted-on labels are sanded back to the shiny metal.
The world in a grain of sand.
The shape of sand is worn.
Or "the house of sand and dead".
