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pink

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verb

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adjective

Example Sentences

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Recent Examples of pink
Noun
When picking a shade based on your skin tone, Warden recommends: Soft pink, peach, and nude-beige liners for light skin tones Rosy, mauve, or caramel shades for medium and olive skin tones Rich browns, plums, or deep rose liners for deep skin tones. Grace McCarty, Glamour, 24 Oct. 2025 Pay attention to changes in breast size, skin texture, swelling, and red or pink coloration. Anisa Arsenault, Health, 24 Oct. 2025
Verb
As will garden pinks, the next most cold-hardy annuals. Neil Sperry, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 17 Oct. 2025 One that seemed to wash the world in pinks and purples, turning an imposing volcanic mountain range in the distance into a confection? Laura Dannen Redman, Robb Report, 16 Oct. 2025
Adjective
Most of the frames are tortoiseshell or black, with tinted lens colors ranging from yellow to pink, blue and everything in between. Christopher Murray May Earn A Commission If You Buy Through Our Referral Links. This Content Was Created By A Team That Works Independently From The Fox Newsroom., FOXNews.com, 13 Aug. 2025 Rosé wines typically range from light red to pink to salmon, but color alone doesn’t define a rosé. Joseph V Micallef, Forbes.com, 26 June 2025 See All Example Sentences for pink
Recent Examples of Synonyms for pink
Noun
  • Long stretches of The Paseo, Broadway Boulevard and Ward Parkway will close as racers aim to set personal bests, so plan accordingly.
    Joseph Hernandez, Kansas City Star, 15 Oct. 2025
  • This was baseball at its October best.
    Cody Stavenhagen, New York Times, 11 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • Produced before the gag order was lifted, the four-part docuseries One Night in Idaho turns its focus to the families, friends and community members still wrestling with the aftermath, offering a piercing look at a case with many unanswered questions.
    James Mercadante, PEOPLE, 25 Oct. 2025
  • The grotesque details—the uncle’s fingernails piercing his hands, the dog’s permanent terror of rabbits—are simply there.
    David Wingrave, Harpers Magazine, 24 Oct. 2025
Adjective
  • Qing Yuan had seen many of these tiny corpses, pinkish, yellowish, tin-gray, curled up, always seemingly asleep, tossed by janitors into fires outside the building.
    Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 23 Oct. 2025
  • Picture a proliferating mound that spreads or spills or drapes down and around and is covered with probably a thousand miniature pinkish-white daisies.
    Joshua Siskin, Oc Register, 11 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • With the Miami waterfront as its backdrop, music filled the venue as industry leaders networked, nibbled on appetizers, and posed for photos in front of a flower wall provided by Johnnie Walker.
    James Dinh, Billboard, 29 Oct. 2025
  • To create the 4-cent stamp, photographer Harold Davis backlist the flowers, combining multiple images from different exposures, according to an USPS news release.
    Greta Cross, USA Today, 29 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • The man accused of fatally stabbing a 23-year-old Ukrainian refugee on a commuter train in Charlotte, North Carolina, has been indicted by a federal grand jury on a charge that could result in the death penalty, court records show.
    Thao Nguyen, USA Today, 24 Oct. 2025
  • Mechanic Paolo Mainardi and dressmaker Antonella Migliorini were found shot and stabbed the following June.
    Emily Blackwood, PEOPLE, 24 Oct. 2025
Adjective
  • If the black isn’t to your taste, the slippers are also available in gray and brown.
    Izzy Baskette, PEOPLE, 26 Oct. 2025
  • If your fiddle leaf fig is looking pale or droopy, or its leaves have begun to curl, develop brown spots, or drop, it is likely dehydrated and needs water.
    Karen Brewer Grossman, Southern Living, 26 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • Pair them with denim, chocolate brown trousers, or even a cream midi skirt for an easy pop of color that feels unexpected but still totally timeless.
    Rosie Marder, Travel + Leisure, 24 Oct. 2025
  • The heels retail for $1,565 and come in gray, yellow, green, white, cream, red and more.
    Karla Rodriguez, Footwear News, 24 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • The moon is covered with about 10 meters of regolith, a mix of dust, ash and rocks punctured by craters and boulders—not pristine landing pads.
    Dan Vergano, Scientific American, 23 Oct. 2025
  • Your skin was punctured by an outside cat.
    Maria Azzurra Volpe, MSNBC Newsweek, 22 Oct. 2025

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“Pink.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/pink. Accessed 31 Oct. 2025.

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