BROWNISH in a Sentence

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1. His linen or clothes are examined, and brownish stains discovered upon them.
2. This here's a new bit, and he touched a shoot which looked brownish green instead of hard, dry gray.
3. He has an impression that the man was tall, had a reddish face, and was dressed in a long, brownish coat.
4. Round his brow he had a peculiar yellow band, with brownish speckles, which seemed to be bound tightly round his head.
5. In an instant the contents assumed a dull mahogany colour, and a brownish dust was precipitated to the bottom of the glass jar.

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brownish
 a.  of a color similar to that of wood or earth; of a color which resembles brown
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1  In an instant the contents assumed a dull mahogany colour, and a brownish dust was precipitated to the bottom of the glass jar.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In PART I: CHAPTER I. MR. SHERLOCK HOLMES
2  His linen or clothes are examined, and brownish stains discovered upon them.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In PART I: CHAPTER I. MR. SHERLOCK HOLMES
3  He has an impression that the man was tall, had a reddish face, and was dressed in a long, brownish coat.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In PART I: CHAPTER VII. LIGHT IN THE DARKNESS
4  The dream hand clenched; the real hand lay on the chair arm, the veins swollen but only with a brownish fluid now.
Between the Acts By Virginia Woolf
Context  Highlight   In Unit 1
5  Round his brow he had a peculiar yellow band, with brownish speckles, which seemed to be bound tightly round his head.
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In VIII. THE ADVENTURE OF THE SPECKLED BAND
6  This here's a new bit, and he touched a shoot which looked brownish green instead of hard, dry gray.
The Secret Garden By Frances Hodgson Burnett
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XI
7  The verdure had thickened and its bright green stood out sharply against the brownish strips of winter rye trodden down by the cattle, and against the pale-yellow stubble of the spring buckwheat.
War and Peace 3 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 7: CHAPTER III
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