How to Use vermilion in a Sentence

vermilion

noun
  • With the smear of vermilion, the women had declared the river married.
    Paul Salopek, National Geographic, 9 Aug. 2019
  • The sauce will break down into a deep and uniform vermilion color.
    Danny Chau, The New Yorker, 13 Mar. 2022
  • In the 1950s, a film crew using the rocks as a stand-in for Red Rock Canyon in Nevada painted them red for vermilion verisimilitude.
    Los Angeles Times, 3 May 2022
  • The pork is stained red, shading from carmine to vermilion, and a beautiful ruin.
    Ligaya Mishan, New York Times, 15 Feb. 2018
  • The flame trees blaze with vermilion flowers, and the frangipani’s fragrance is at its most intense in May, before the monsoons move in.
    Hannah Beech, New York Times, 15 May 2020
  • The carvings were covered up with lime plaster that had been tinted vermilion with brick dust.
    Hussein Omar Simon Watson, New York Times, 15 Mar. 2023
  • Its exterior walls, once white, were repainted at the end of World War II to vermilion, the color of blood.
    Jameson Montgomery Mahira Rivers Kate Guadagnino Adriane Quinlan Laura Bannister Megan O’Sullivan, New York Times, 29 Sep. 2022
  • To Turner, the vermilion red sun was sunset and rest so there are vermillion red, dark colors by the bedroom for rest.
    Hadley Keller, House Beautiful, 4 Oct. 2019
  • The facade of Margarita Phil’s is a junkyard of yellow and vermilion planks.
    Anthony Faiola, Washington Post, 12 Sep. 2017
  • The facade of Margarita Phil's is a junkyard of yellow and vermilion planks.
    Author: Anthony Faiola, Alaska Dispatch News, 13 Sep. 2017
  • During a hike in the Ramona Grasslands, the flaming red of a vermilion flycatcher flashed as the bird moved from one tree to another.
    Ernie Cowan, San Diego Union-Tribune, 24 Dec. 2023
  • This vermilion shade from Chanel is a perfectly retro, creamy orange-red.
    Caitie Kelly, New York Times, 1 Aug. 2019
  • That also includes grouper and the other snapper species like vermilion, gray and lane snapper.
    Frank Sargeant, AL.com, 16 July 2017
  • For example, mercury sulphide, known to painters as vermilion, has a small band gap.
    The Economist, 11 July 2019
  • The blood-red hue of a small, 1974 silkscreen version in vermilion, installed with four drawings in a side gallery, evokes engorgement and violence.
    Christopher Knight, Los Angeles Times, 18 July 2023
  • Blood exploded out of Bandino's neck like flames being tossed out of a bucket, turning the snow at his feet into a sea of vermilion.
    Barry Gifford, latimes.com, 16 Mar. 2018
  • During open season for the prized fish, a recreational anglers can harvest up to 10 vermilion and up to two red snapper per trip.
    Gabrielle Banks, Houston Chronicle, 15 Dec. 2017
  • Huge statement scarfs in vermilion and saffron added a touch of seasonal humor.
    Washington Post, 6 Mar. 2018
  • Just then, like the placement of an ornament on the tip of a holiday tree branch, a bright-red male vermilion flycatcher fluttered down and landed not more than 10 feet in front of me.
    San Diego Union-Tribune, 26 Dec. 2020
  • Isabella's coat of arms was added to the floral borders, using the same vermilion red as her gown, which the analysis distinguished from the red lead paint of the original.
    Maev Kennedy, CNN, 19 May 2021
  • Rather than just hemming the philtrum, surgeons can finesse the peaks of the Cupid’s bow or roll out the upper lip to reveal more of the red vermilion and allow a sliver of the incisors to show when the lips are slightly parted.
    Jolene Edgar, Harper's BAZAAR, 8 June 2023
  • Canary yellow swirls next to dark burgundy, and chartreuse grabs the eye when paired with vermilion. Upend the adage of separating warm colors (like red) and cool ones (blues), and go for shock.
    Amy Merrick, WSJ, 26 Apr. 2018
  • The vermilion rockfish is recognizable by its vivid red color, but others are brown, blue, gray.
    Lila Seidman, Los Angeles Times, 18 Jan. 2024
  • If the gap is diminished still more, as sometimes happens when vermilion is exposed to light, the pigment absorbs all visible light and turns black.
    The Economist, 11 July 2019
  • Genève bag is ready for Lunar New Year gifting with its vermilion red colorway and stamped bunny logo.
    Danielle Directo-Meston, The Hollywood Reporter, 19 Jan. 2023
  • The artisan touch extends to salmon lox, cured with beets for a brilliant vermilion color and endearing sweetness.
    Mike Sutter, ExpressNews.com, 10 Dec. 2020
  • Expect hard-edge black and vermilion typography rendered at the scale of architecture, the better to dance with.
    Lori Waxman, chicagotribune.com, 6 Jan. 2022
  • Eye-catching vermilion rockfish share the water with the state’s official marine fish, the orange garibaldi, which is Sun’s favorite.
    James T. Bartlett, Los Angeles Times, 6 May 2020
  • In the 2017 image, two crossed tennis rackets — not unlike the logo for Wimbledon — hover above the stadium, which now glows with hints of purple, green and vermilion.
    Zach Schonbrun, New York Times, 8 Sep. 2017
  • For five hours, all that can be seen is an endless expanse of ocher shifting to vermilion, corrugated by ancient crags and pocked with swirling violet salt pan lakes.
    David Prior, Condé Nast Traveler, 24 Jan. 2017

Some of these examples are programmatically compiled from various online sources to illustrate current usage of the word 'vermilion.' Any opinions expressed in the examples do not represent those of Merriam-Webster or its editors. Send us feedback about these examples.

Last Updated: