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How to use amber in a sentence

40 example sentences · noun, adjective, verb

Amber means ambergris, the waxy product of the sperm whale. Example: “Rubbing amber with wool will charge it quickly.”

Examples of amber by meaning

nounThe intermediate light in a set of three traffic lights, which when illuminated indicates that drivers should stop when...

  • While earlier controllers provided concurrent ambers, present practice is to indicate a minimum intergreen period of 4 s.1974, Traffic Planning and Engineering, page 366
  • Also flashing ambers are not operational at this type of crossing.2000, Traffic Engineering & Control, volume 41, page 201

nounThe stop codon (nucleotide triplet) "UAG", or a mutant which has this stop codon at a premature place in its DNA...

  • an amber codon, an amber mutation, an amber suppressor
  • For example, to cross a temperature-sensitive mutation with an amber mutation, amber suppressor cells are infected at the low (permissive) temperature.2007, Molecular Genetics of Bacteria, edition 3, page 333
  • Double ambers revert at 10⁻⁸−10⁻⁹, and therefore, reversion is negligible.2007, Jonathan C. Kuhn, “Detection of Salmonella by Bacteriophage Felix 01”, in Salmonella: Methods and Protocols, pages 27–28

adjectiveOf a brownish yellow colour, like that of most amber.

  • They all moved safely through the first green and then the second, but when the third light turned amber Jack's taxi was the last to cross the intersection.2006, Jeffrey Archer, False Impression, page 270
  • Ahead, a cool breeze swept the pale morning sun across a grassy meadow turned amber by morning's frost.2008, Elizabeth Amber, Raine: The Lords of Satyr, page 211

verbTo perfume or flavour with ambergris.

  • ambered wine, an ambered room

verbTo preserve in amber.

  • an ambered fly

verbTo cause to take on the yellow colour of amber.

  • Home to the mosaic of coloured-lit windows in the black and white houses, the fake gas lamps ambering the cobbles, sometimes the scent of applewood smoke.2007, Phil Rickman, Fabric of Sin: A Merrily Watkins Mystery
  • The firelight flickered on her rounded cheeks, ambering the pale skin.2008, Jeri Westerson, Veil of Lies: A Medieval Noir

verbTo take on the yellow colour of amber.

  • Westward along Lancaster Avenue, among the stone walls and broad driveways of imposing old houses—their lawns dappled with the shade of ambering maples and dusty, bark-peeled sycamores—2009, Jack Wennerstrom, Black Coffee, page 19

More sentences with amber

  • Rubbing amber with wool will charge it quickly.From the entry charge
  • Although amber is most famously yellow, red amber, black amber, grey amber and even blue amber also exist.From the entry grey amber
  • Amber would have been decapitated if not for the Mansfield bar.2024 September 24, Jordan Peele, John Joseph Adams, Out There Screaming: An Anthology of New Black Horror, Random House, →ISBN, page 275. From the entry Mansfield bar
  • Her favourite combinations involve pine, boletus mushroom and sake, or celery, tonka and amber ale.2021, Agence France-Presse, Michelin awards star to vegan restaurant for the first time in France, The Guardian. From the entry tonka
  • Amberoid, or “pressed amber,” is produced by fusing together small pieces of amber under pressure.2013, Amy McKenna, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, and Poland, page 62. From the entry amberoid
  • AMBER alerts, by contrast, try to get them to help someone else.2013 August 6, Jon Healey, “Californians climb the learning curve for AMBER text alerts”, in Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles, Calif.: Los…. From the entry amber alert
  • Baltic carving constructed of "fatty turbid" amber was Kumst, which in German means cabbage or sauerkraut.2006, Patty C. Rice, Amber: Golden Gem of the Ages, page 11. From the entry kumst
  • A helm of extraordinary craftsmanship, wroght with amber and gold, rested on his head.2003, Christopher Paolini, “Prologue: Shade of Fear”, in Eragon, page 2. From the entry craftsmanship
  • Not bad for an amber or pale ale, but India pale ale, I don't think so.1998, Pete Slosberg, Beer for Pete's Sake: The Wicked Adventures of a Brewing Maverick, page 128. From the entry IPA
  • Madame de Pompadour was fond of chocolates spiced with vanilla and amber.1961, Harry E. Wedeck, Dictionary of Aphrodisiacs, New York: The Citadel Press, page 242. From the entry chocolate
  • Nedde: In Arab countries, a mixture of various perfumes, with benzoin and amber predominating, is so called.1961, Harry E. Wedeck, Dictionary of Aphrodisiacs, New York: The Citadel Press, page 164. From the entry benzoin
  • Amber Heard gave the most mailed-in performance I’ve ever seen.2021 February 18, Realityczech (commenter), “The Stand Is Half of a Great Television Series”, in Tor. From the entry mailed-in
  • I imagine that the märzenbiers of the nineteenth century looked like Free State’s—deep amber, like a medium-grade maple syrup.2015, Jeff Alworth, The Beer Bible, New York, N.Y.: Workman Publishing, →ISBN, page 448. From the entry märzenbier
  • The plastic showed me a fisheyed, amber world.2014, Tom Harper [pseudonym; Edwin Thomas], Zodiac Station, Hodder & Stoughton, published 2015, →ISBN, page 273. From the entry fisheyed
  • Amber Luthergaard (D-North Dakota) had been a fixture in the halls of Congress for over a year now.2012, Bowen Craig, A Look to the Future Through the Eyes of an Eighty Year Old Pirate, iUniverse, →ISBN, pages 120–121. From the entry gentlegirl
  • Oriental fragrances often incorporate an accord referred to as amber.2010, Daphna Havkin-Frenkel, Faith C. Belanger, Handbook of Vanilla Science and Technology, John Wiley & Sons, →ISBN. From the entry accord
  • The Czech lands have been famous for centuries for producing some of the finest amber nectar in the world.2010, Neil Wilson, Mark Baker, Prague, Lonely Planet, page 180. From the entry amber nectar
  • The sins the foundation has identified include eating at the wheel, becoming a traffic-light hopping "amber gambler" and drinking and driving.2007 December 24, “Drivers warned over the ‘Seven Deadly Sins’”, in Bolton News, UK, retrieved 29 Aug 2011. From the entry amber gambler
  • Huge quantities of Newcastle Brown ale, an extremely dangerous dark amber fluid known locally as ‘journey into space’ had been consumed.2006, Peter Tate, SeaSickness, Lulu, page 30. From the entry Journey into Space
  • The quince jelly was a beautiful amber color, the butter (from the pulp) was a lovely applesaucey color.2005 November 21, The Joneses, “Quince jelly or roasted quince”, in rec.food.preserving (Usenet), archived from the original on 07 Nov 2023. From the entry applesaucey
  • Bloodworth paused, drank from the amber beerbottle.2000, William Gay, Provinces of Night, New York, NY: Anchor Books, published 2002, →ISBN, page 94. From the entry beerbottle
  • An elderly woman in Kurpian dress, adorned with amber beads of her own manufacture followed, carrying a consecrated candle.1992, Margaret Read MacDonald, The Folklore of World Holidays, Detroit: Gale Research, →ISBN, page 462. From the entry Kurpian
  • Ethion is a colorless to amber colored liquid.1990, T. S. S. Dikshith, Toxicological Study of Pesticides in Animals, page 20. From the entry ethion
  • Karl Linke, Jr., wore gowns of sea green and amber.1982, Ancestry and Descendants of Johann Dirk Eilers, 1815-1885, Pioneer Settler, Johnson County, Nebraska, page 78. From the entry bridesmatron
  • The afternoon sun painted amber patterns on the Turkey red hearthrug: the only splash of colour in the dun room.1936, Esmond Quinterley, Ushering Interlude, The Fortune Press, page 66. From the entry sloom
  • Her secrets: old featherfans, tasselled dancecards, powdered with musk, a gaud of amber beads in her locked drawer.1922, James Joyce, Ulysses, Part I, episode 1. From the entry gaud
  • Look, Pisistratus, man after my own heart, see the gleam of bronze and gold—of amber, ivory, and silver.1900, Homer, “Book IV”, in Samuel Butler, transl., The Odyssey: Rendered into English Prose for the Use of Those who Cannot Read the…. From the entry after one's own heart
  • They embody what Henry James called “the palpable, imaginable, visitable past” — in this case, la belle époque as if frozen in amber.2018 February 2, Walter Nicklin, “In the Czech Republic, Habsburg family homes offer a haunting glimpse into history”, in The Washington…. From the entry la belle époque

Meaning of amber

  1. noun Ambergris, the waxy product of the sperm whale.
  2. noun Formerly thought to be the product of a plant.
  3. noun A hard, generally yellow to brown translucent or transparent fossil resin from extinct coniferous trees of the pine genus, used for jewellery, decoration and later dissolved as a binder in varnishes. One variety, blue amber, appears blue rather than yellow under direct sunlight.

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Questions about amber in a sentence

How do you use amber in a sentence?
Amber is used as a noun, adjective and verb. For example: “Rubbing amber with wool will charge it quickly.”
What is a short sentence with amber?
“an ambered fly”
What does amber mean?
Amber means ambergris, the waxy product of the sperm whale.

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