How to Use secondary color in a Sentence
secondary color
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Jones wore purple — the secondary color produced when the primary colors of red and blue and blended.
—Haley Sawyer, Oc Register, 4 Jan. 2026
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Another idea is to select a secondary color from the pattern and utilize your hat to accentuate that hue.
—Betsy Cribb Watson, Southern Living, 26 Apr. 2026
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The goal is to fill 60 percent of the space with a dominant color, and then 30 percent with a secondary color.
—Wendy Rose Gould, Martha Stewart, 26 Feb. 2026
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Both employ their respective primary color for all of the upper save for the Swoosh and mustache in the secondary color.
—Ian Servantes, Footwear News, 3 Sep. 2019
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The pilot watch’s dial features a team’s primary color, like the Detroit Lions’s Honolulu Blue, and the second hand its secondary color—in this case, silver.
—Bryan Hood, Robb Report, 28 Aug. 2025
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