BROWN in a Sentence

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For BROWN, below is one of 248 sentences:
Her iron-gray hair was eked out by a curled false fringe that was proudly brown and disdained to match the rest of her hair.

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 Meanings and Examples of BROWN
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
brown
 n.  colors between red and yellow in hue, of medium to low lightness
Classic Sentence: (210 in 15 pages)
1  She held the light at the same level, and it drew out with the same distinctness her slim young throat and the brown wrist no bigger than a child's.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In IV
2  As her young brown head detached itself against the patch-work cushion that habitually framed his wife's gaunt countenance, Ethan had a momentary shock.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In V
3  Leaning forward, he touched the farther end of the strip of brown stuff that she was hemming.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In V
4  Her "good" dress had been replaced by the black calico and brown knitted shawl which formed her daily wear, and with them she had put on her usual face and manner.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In VII
5  She drew closer under the bearskin, so that, looking sideways around his coat-sleeve, he could just catch the tip of her nose and a blown brown wave of hair.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In IX
6  They clucked to their horses and rode along in silence for a while, a flush of embarrassment on Stuart's brown cheeks.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER I
7  The red furrows and the gashed red road lost their magical blood color and became plain brown earth.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER II
8  She was a brown little creature, with skinny legs like a bird and a myriad of pigtails carefully wrapped with twine sticking stiffly out from her head.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER IV
9  He was a nice-looking boy with a riot of soft brown curls on his white forehead and eyes as deep brown, as clean and as gentle as a collie dog's.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VI
10  She took new courage at this thought and redoubled her efforts in the direction of Charles, whose brown eyes glowed down eagerly at her.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VI
11  She thought of Melanie and saw suddenly her quiet brown eyes with their far-off look, her placid little hands in their black lace mitts, her gentle silences.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VI
12  Her iron-gray hair was eked out by a curled false fringe that was proudly brown and disdained to match the rest of her hair.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VIII
13  His brown face was bland and his mouth, red lipped, clear cut as a woman's, frankly sensual, smiled carelessly as he lifted her into the carriage.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XVII
14  His soft brown eyes followed her every movement, large, round as dollars, a childish bewilderment in them as though her own scarce-hidden fears had been communicated to him.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXI
15  His large brown eyes met hers and she stopped for a moment to look at the picture curiously.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXIII
Example Sentence: (38 in 3 pages)
16  He had spiky light brown hair, shaved at the sides and gelled on top.
17  The meal itself was not so good — everything was boringly brown including the vegetables.
18  It was the height of summer and the land was parched and brown.
19  Put it under the grill for a minute to brown the top.
20  When nitric acid is poured on copper, a brown vapor gives off.
21  The parcel was wrapped in plain brown paper.
22  Her smile broadened to reveal two rows of brown stumps.
23  I felt her dark brown hair brushing the back of my shoulder.
24  The lizard's light brown skin acts as camouflage in the desert sand.
25  Melanin is the dark brown pigment of the hair, skin and eyes which is present in varying amounts in every human being.
26  "How now, brown cow, browsing in the green, green grass." I remember lines of verse that I came across while I browse through the poetry section of bookstore.
27  That emerald curtain doesn't match the brown floor.
28  He wore a loose tunic and looser trousers, homespun and dyed in motley green and brown.
29  If you wear them with an odd jacket, dark brown shoes, preferably suede shoes in brown, you can look ok.
30  Chocolate brown is the most fashion-forward color.