tone color
nounDefinition of tone color
: timbre
Examples of tone color in a Sentence
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The fact that her line is pretty much the opposite of kimonos, consisting of formfitting shape-wear in skin tone colors rather than colorful and intricate silken robes, isnât really helping the matter. — Ephrat Livni, Quartzy, "Read the letter from Kyotoâs mayor to Kim Kardashian protesting âKimonoâ shapewear," 30 June 2019 It can be expressed in a variety of ways: sometimes as an explicit bias, sometimes as a subtle inflection, like the tone color in a piece of music; sometimes erupting in the heat of argument, like the revenge of the repressed. — Adam Shatz, The New York Review of Books, "âOrientalism,â Then and Now," 20 May 2019 Wearing a skin-tone color all over can easily read as bland, or blah, but the model styled it in a way that felt completely elegant for an evening event. — Vogue, "Bella Hadid Has a Chic Way to Do Head-to-Toe Nude," 15 May 2019 The quiet, tone-on-tone colors of the bedroom make your heart beat slower. — Christine Pittel, House Beautiful, "Designer Barry Dixon on Decorating a Capitol Hill Row House," 9 June 2011 And the soft gray-brown works with my monochromatic, tone-on-tone color scheme. — Christine Pittel, House Beautiful, "Christopher Peacock on Designing the 2013 Kitchen of the Year," 20 Aug. 2013 The new location incorporates an earth-tone color palette with an industrial design and modern feel in line with the greater rebranding and remodeling initiative launched in May 2016. — Henry J. Morgan, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, "Menomonee Falls Cousins Subs celebrates July 11 reopening after redesign," 12 July 2018 First, who doesnât love the simple, but enduring Shadow design, with the two-tone color blocking set against a chunky sole? — Jakob Schiller, Outside Online, "The Saucony Shadow Original Is the Best Everyday Shoe," 22 Mar. 2018 The looks Saturday had a Bohemian-Rasta-Grateful Dead vibe, sans patchouli and incense, but with a mostly Earth-tones color palette. — Washington Post, "Armani rejects overdone emotion, Ferragamo favors color," 24 Feb. 2018These example sentences are selected automatically from various online news sources to reflect current usage of the word 'tone color.' Views expressed in the examples do not represent the opinion of Merriam-Webster or its editors. Send us feedback.
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