How to Use umber in a Sentence

umber

noun

• The rich umber wood used throughout is also a nod to the past.
  — Bridget Arsenault, Forbes, 10 July 2022
• Wide swatches of umber dirt — fire breaks bulldozed through fields and woods, to cordon the flames off — scar the countryside.
  — Eric Asimov, New York Times, 20 Oct. 2017
• The sun was just beginning its ascent over the Mojave, bathing the sand in a smooth umber glow beneath pockets of wispy cloud.
  — Sammy Roth, Anchorage Daily News, 2 July 2023
• So does fall, when the deciduous splendor of the park unveils in washes of gold, red, and umber.
  — Tracey Minkin, Southern Living, 9 Mar. 2021
• Shades of umber, khaki, mud, And other greens beside the Malachite.
  — Ciaran Carson, The New Yorker, 12 Aug. 2019
• And two similar shades, a pinkish umber and warm copper, are both in stock at Amazon.
  — Jessica Leigh Mattern, PEOPLE.com, 10 Sep. 2021
• Diablo,’ or ninebark, its green-umber foliage a stand-in for the painting’s landscape.
  — Lindsey Taylor, WSJ, 7 Aug. 2018
• Governor Sarhadi, a spare-looking man with a gray beard, wore a black turban and a short umber shawl, called a patou.
  — Jon Lee Anderson, The New Yorker, 21 Feb. 2022
• Many of the sculptures bear the colors that match their counterparts in the natural world, mostly subdued umbers and rusts, creams and taupes.
  — Leah Ollman, latimes.com, 5 May 2017
• His palette ran to burnt umber, yellow ocher, burnt sienna, olive green.
  — Los Angeles Times, 6 Sep. 2019
• The last time a yellowish color got the bum’s rush was in 1990, when maize, lemon yellow and orange yellow all went down for the count (along with duds such as raw umber and violet blue).
  — Joe Queenan, WSJ, 6 Apr. 2017
• Made of amethyst, bone, faience, glass, turquoise, and umber, and including phallic amulets, scarabs, a woman, a dancing satyr, and a head of Dionysus, they are thought to be the treasure box of a sorceress.
  — Rafil Kroll-Zaidi, Harper's magazine, 28 Oct. 2019
• Rich marigold and umber can be a great energetic accent hue, while moody burgundy and brown act as a grounding, comforting anchor in a space.
  — Alyssa Longobucco, House Beautiful, 12 Oct. 2022
• This has allowed the public to witness the umber-haired, fresh-faced beauty's affinity for stylish dresses, and to learn of her gender equity work with the United Nations.
  — Samantha Willis, Glamour, 18 May 2018
• Some, of night skies, embed white dots, for stars, in glazes of a dense black, with subliminal admixtures of, Celmins recently told me, ultramarine, raw umber, and ochre.
  — Peter Schjeldahl, The New Yorker, 27 Feb. 2017
• Tones of umber and ocher are brought to life with splashes of color: a woman’s shoes in Coca-Cola red or the shimmering green exterior of a classic American car.
  — Samuel Rutter Kate Guadagnino Lisa Wong MacAbasco Aimee Farrell Anna Furman, New York Times, 10 Nov. 2022
• Shortly after 8, Varsano pressed some buttons in an app on his phone to raise the shades, and the showroom’s gray-and-blue interior flooded with rare London sun, mottled with umber from a hurricane bound for Ireland.
  — Gideon Lewis-Kraus, New York Times, 23 Jan. 2018
• Burlap and Barrel’s version, which is made from a particular variety of tomato grown along the coastline of the Aegean Sea in Turkey and dried in the sun, on the other hand, is an orangey-umber color, with a saltier, tangier taste.
  — Sarah Jampel, Bon Appétit, 12 Apr. 2021
• The brown pigment umber (obtained from a dark brown clay) is caused by the combination of two color molecules: iron oxides (which have a rusty red-brown color) and manganese oxides (which add a darker black-brown color).
  — Science Buddies, Scientific American, 14 May 2015
• Her skin was a shade or two darker than Nella's chestnut complexion, falling somewhere between hickory and umber.
  — Rachel Epstein, Marie Claire, 1 June 2021
• In 1990, eight shades — maize, lemon yellow, blue gray, raw umber, green blue, orange red, orange yellow and violet blue — were retired and eight new ones, including the yellow hue known as dandelion, were introduced.
  — Christopher Mele, New York Times, 31 Mar. 2017
• Other pieces are more delicate — a little cup, for instance, with walls like a fine, crisp shell, nests within another, just slightly larger, to yield an intimate meditation in umber and taupe.
  — Leah Ollman, latimes.com, 5 July 2019
• The program also covers dragonflies and three special concern species — the cobra clubtail, umber shadowdragon, and stygian — are being delisted.
  — Michael P. Norton, BostonGlobe.com, 16 Aug. 2019
• Ultramarine and burnt umber combine into a distinctly sweet and mysterious black.
  — New York Times, 5 Feb. 2020
• Reflecting Yuki’s artistic sensibility, each chapter narrated from her perspective begins with a description of an exotic shade of pigment — carmine, raw umber, quinacridone gold — selected to correspond to its mood.
  — Namara Smith, New York Times, 10 Mar. 2017
• The rich umber wood used throughout is also a nod to the past.
  — Bridget Arsenault, Forbes, 10 July 2022
• Wide swatches of umber dirt — fire breaks bulldozed through fields and woods, to cordon the flames off — scar the countryside.
  — Eric Asimov, New York Times, 20 Oct. 2017
• The sun was just beginning its ascent over the Mojave, bathing the sand in a smooth umber glow beneath pockets of wispy cloud.
  — Sammy Roth, Anchorage Daily News, 2 July 2023
• So does fall, when the deciduous splendor of the park unveils in washes of gold, red, and umber.
  — Tracey Minkin, Southern Living, 9 Mar. 2021
• Shades of umber, khaki, mud, And other greens beside the Malachite.
  — Ciaran Carson, The New Yorker, 12 Aug. 2019

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