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Recent Examples of tawny The tawny owl’s dark release of song quavered from the pine wood. Literary Hub, 19 Sep. 2025 Great cornerbacks are football’s tawny owls, the biggest of the big-game hunters, dogging prey through darkness and chaos. Sean Keeler, Denver Post, 31 Aug. 2025 Home to ancient mountains and verdant pine forests, this renowned preserve is brimming with all sorts of native Scottish fauna, with European pine martens, tawny owls and European badgers being just a few species that call the region home. Jared Ranahan, Forbes.com, 16 July 2025 And, brother, are there a lot of varieties — hammerhead shark, walking shark, whale shark, tawny nurse shark, pajama shark, pelagic thresher, tiger shark, tasselled wobbegong shark, puffadder shy shark, baby shark, mommy shark and daddy shark, to name but a few. Robert Lloyd, Los Angeles Times, 3 July 2025 See All Example Sentences for tawny
Recent Examples of Synonyms for tawny
blond
Adjective
  • Sydney Sweeney debuted a bright blonde bob at the Christy premiere during 2025 AFI FEST in Hollywood.
    Jackie Fields, PEOPLE, 28 Oct. 2025
  • The post, shared on Sunday under the username u/IWannaHideThrowaway, shows the poster trying to watch TV while blonde locks of hair belonging to the passenger sitting in front of them cover most of the screen, leaving the poster unable to use it.
    Maria Azzurra Volpe, MSNBC Newsweek, 27 Oct. 2025

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“Tawny.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/tawny. Accessed 29 Oct. 2025.

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