How to Use red ocher in a Sentence

red ocher

noun

• At least one reason, Meacham said, was to prospect and mine red ocher.
  — Fox News, 7 July 2020
• Its far wall bore a panel, painted with a red ocher pigment.
  — Michael Price, Science | AAAS, 11 Dec. 2019
• One large wooden face is fierce with marks from the mineral pigment red ocher.
  — Lisa Demer, Alaska Dispatch News, 3 Sep. 2017
• The mining tribe resembles the Himba of Namibia, known for their red ocher body paint and leather headpieces.
  — Melena Ryzik, New York Times, 23 Feb. 2018
• The 23-year-old’s body was dusted with red ocher, a pigment used by many ancient cultures in burial ceremonies.
  — Washington Post, 16 Nov. 2020
• He had been ceremoniously buried; his hands were folded over the pelvis and traces of red ocher enveloped him from cranium to loin.
  — David Maurice Smith, Smithsonian, 23 Aug. 2019
• In all, divers identified more than 350 pits used for extracting red ocher, reports Bruce Bower for Science News.
  — Theresa MacHemer, Smithsonian Magazine, 7 July 2020
• The Majoonsuo grave first drew the attention of researchers in 1992 in the municipality of Outokumpu when bright red ocher, a clay rich in iron, was spotted on the surface of a new service trail in the forest.
  — Ashley Strickland, CNN, 2 Nov. 2022
• Some 7,000 years ago, a prehistoric human (or humans) added red ocher paintings to Los Machos, a natural rock shelter in southern Spain.
  — Theresa MacHemer, Smithsonian Magazine, 18 Sep. 2020
• A century or so later, during the Hell Gap occupation, Paleoindian people returned to the site and once again dug up red ocher.
  — Sarah Kuta, Smithsonian Magazine, 24 May 2022
• The team posits that someone applied a red ocher pigment around the injury, possibly for therapeutic or symbolic purposes.
  — Livia Gershon, Smithsonian Magazine, 4 Mar. 2021
• Communities including the Himba in Namibia continue to use red ocher as a bug repellant and sunscreen today; the pigment is also useful for tanning hides.
  — Theresa MacHemer, Smithsonian Magazine, 7 July 2020
• Likely the oldest color in the spectrum, red ocher was the first pigment to be used in cave paintings, and its been associated with nobility, revolutionaries, prostitutes, and popes.
  — Rebecca Ramsey, The Cut, 31 Aug. 2017
• Today Himba women in southern Africa cover their bodies in a mix of butterfat and red ocher, a culturally important tradition that also acts as sunscreen and bug repellent.
  — Theresa MacHemer, National Geographic, 8 Sep. 2020

Last Updated: 24 Jul 2024