sepia

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Recent Examples of sepia The sketches are in sepia tone or black and white, with all the color taken out of them. Sierra Knoch, San Diego Union-Tribune, 3 Mar. 2025 The decade is lushly integrated into the storyline, a soft focus and sepia tones bring an air of nostalgia to the fore as the sets and cast recreate the trappings of a gritty Madrid, 1979. Holly Jones, Variety, 17 Feb. 2025 The tea imparts a sweet flavor that carries right through to the yolk and a sepia tint that lends an antique, marbled look to the white. Saveur Editors, Saveur, 15 Jan. 2025 The sepia sky was filled with smoke, ash was falling, and as my car rounded a bend on the 110 Freeway, another phone alert blared to evacuate the area. Betty Hallock, Los Angeles Times, 12 Jan. 2025 See All Example Sentences for sepia
Recent Examples of Synonyms for sepia
Noun
  • The two other versions opt for a radically different monochrome display.
    Fairchild Studio, Footwear News, 6 June 2025
  • Jenner, matching in monochrome with sisters Kendall Jenner and Kim Kardashian, attended the 2025 Met Gala with Ferragamo designer Maximilian Davis on her arm days before her Rome outing with Chalamet.
    KiMi Robinson, USA Today, 8 May 2025
Noun
  • Creating a daguerreotype was a delicate, sometimes painstaking process that involved several chemical treatments and variable exposure times.
    Lillian Ali, Smithsonian Magazine, 6 June 2025
  • The settlement ends a 15-year battle between Lanier and the university to release the 19th-century daguerreotypes, a precursor to modern-day photographs.
    Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 30 May 2025
Noun
  • One teenager unfurled and held up the national flag — red with a yellow star — for a photo.
    Stephanie Yang, Los Angeles Times, 8 June 2025
  • Apple Intelligence can summarize text messages, identify real-world surroundings with the iPhone’s camera, erase unwanted objects from photos, rewrite emails and prioritize notifications.
    Lisa Eadicicco, CNN Money, 8 June 2025
Noun
  • Riot Grrrl band Emily’s Sassy Lime will have an installation of archival music videos, photographs, zines and more from the 1990s; recent teenage punk band the Linda Lindas, who draw inspiration from Emily’s Sassy Lime, will also present their music videos, drawings and props.
    Alia Yee Noll, Los Angeles Times, 4 June 2025
  • The book includes lots of maps, photographs, drawings and diagrams to illustrate the regions and concepts that Professor Williams discusses in the text.
    GrrlScientist, Forbes.com, 4 June 2025
Noun
  • This is especially evident as the show builds from format to format—including tintypes, ambrotypes, paper prints, and stereographs, each an improvement on the last where the maker’s control was concerned.
    Vince Aletti, New Yorker, 24 May 2025
  • Lifestyle Hauntingly beautiful tintype photos memorialize what was lost in Altadena April 30, 2025 Tell us about your outfit.
    Kailyn Brown, Los Angeles Times, 7 May 2025

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“Sepia.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/sepia. Accessed 17 Jun. 2025.

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