HUE in a Sentence

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66 example sentences for HUE, such as:

1. Black will take no other hue.
2. Add orange paint to get a warmer hue.
3. The diamond shone with every hue under the sun.
4. The aviary contained birds of every possible hue.
5. In the Caribbean waters there are fish of every hue.

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 Meanings and Examples of HUE
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
hue
 n.  color; appearance; particular gradation of color
Classic Sentence: (59 in 4 pages)
1  The high cheek bones were more prominent, the hawk-bridged nose was sharper and her copper skin gleamed with a brighter hue.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXIV
2  If they were less vivid in hue, more subdued to the half-tints of her personality and her experience, they were for that very reason better suited to her mental vision.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 14
3  This young fellow's healthy cheek is like a sun-toasted pear in hue, and would seem to smell almost as musky; he cannot have been three days landed from his Indian voyage.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 5. Breakfast.
4  Nor, in some things, does the common, hereditary experience of all mankind fail to bear witness to the supernaturalism of this hue.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 42. The Whiteness of The Whale.
5  And from that pallor of the dead, we borrow the expressive hue of the shroud in which we wrap them.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 42. The Whiteness of The Whale.
6  The peeled white body of the beheaded whale flashes like a marble sepulchre; though changed in hue, it has not perceptibly lost anything in bulk.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 69. The Funeral.
7  You might easily dent it with your thumb; it is of a hue between yellow and ash colour.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 91. The Pequod Meets The Rose-Bud.
8  But blanched to a corpse's hue with despair, the Mate had stolen away.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 132. The Symphony.
9  The roof of it was of a purple hue, and trimmed with gold; the house itself was silvery, and the doors and windows red.
The Jungle By Upton Sinclair
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 4
10  The orator sat in a chair, with his shoulders sunk together and his eyes half closed; his face was ghastly pale, almost greenish in hue, and one arm lay limp at his side.
The Jungle By Upton Sinclair
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 29
11  The vast canopy of woods spread itself to the margin of the river, overhanging the water, and shadowing its dark current with a deeper hue.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore Cooper
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 3
12  In the gloom before the break of the day their uniforms glowed a deep purple hue.
The Red Badge of Courage By Stephen Crane
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 2
13  The eyes, staring at the youth, had changed to the dull hue to be seen on the side of a dead fish.
The Red Badge of Courage By Stephen Crane
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 7
14  Exercise had given a brilliant hue to her cheeks, and heightened the effect of her singularly transparent skin, and golden hair.
Uncle Tom's Cabin By Harriet Beecher Stowe
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXIII
15  Calmly the rosy hue of dawn was stealing into the room.
Uncle Tom's Cabin By Harriet Beecher Stowe
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXVI
Example Sentence:
1  The hay was all got in; the trees were in their dark prime; hedge and wood, full-leaved and deeply tinted, contrasted well with the sunny hue of the cleared meadows between.
2  The aviary contained birds of every possible hue.
3  The diamond shone with every hue under the sun.
4  Add orange paint to get a warmer hue.
5  Black will take no other hue.
6  In the Caribbean waters there are fish of every hue.
7  She admired the iridescent hues of the oil that floated on the surface of the water.