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How to use dye in a sentence

40 example sentences · noun, verb

Dye means a colorant, especially one that has an affinity to the substrate to which it is applied. Example: “You look different. Have you had your hair dyed?”

Examples of dye by meaning

nounA colorant, especially one that has an affinity to the substrate to which it is applied.

  • While the yarn is soaking in its water and vinegar bath, I prepare a selection of dyes for my preferred colorway.2026, Katherine Augustine, “Dyeing in the Baking Aisle”, in Spin Off, volume L, number 1, page 35

verbTo colour with dye, or as if with dye.

  • You look different. Have you had your hair dyed?
  • If indeed sharks were inclined to eat people, the world's oceans would be dyed crimson with the blood of millions.1983, Richard Ellis, The Book of Sharks, Knopf, →ISBN, page 164
  • From there, customization simply becomes a matter of crafting trims at a smithing table, then dyeing them “using gems and ingots like diamonds, copper, and netherite.”2023 January 24, Brianna Reeves, “Minecraft 1.20 update to make major changes to netherite and gold”, in Dexerto

More sentences with dye

  • He dyed his hair black last month, so the grey roots can be seen.From the entry root
  • Leave the yarn in the dye overnight so the color soaks through.From the entry through
  • Janus green B is a dye used widely in histology to stain cells for microscopic examination.From the entry Janus
  • With her black clothes and dyed hair, Melanie looked very goth compared to her classmates.From the entry goth
  • Dye steadily injected into the fluid at a fixed point extends along a streakline.From the entry streakline
  • We have created polyurethane fibers containing a colorless leucoderivative of a blue-violet dye.From the entry leucoderivative
  • I'll get the ends of my hair dyed. Worst-case scenario, I can cut them off.From the entry worst-case scenario
  • Traditionally most jeans are dyed dark blue.From the entry jeans
  • Wool was dyed in the pastel vat.From the entry pastel
  • The dye worked its way through.From the entry work
  • I told my daughter to get her hair dyed at a salon, but she had to swim upstream and do it herself. Now it's a mess.From the entry swim upstream
  • Dye splashes and drips may occur, so protect surfaces and be prepared to clean countertops.2026, Katherine Augustine, “Dyeing in the Baking Aisle”, in Spin Off, volume L, number 1, page 33. From the entry handy
  • Keeping the ties loose ensures that the yarn can absorb the dye without creating a resist.2026, Katherine Augustine, “Dyeing in the Baking Aisle”, in Spin Off, volume L, number 1, page 35. From the entry resist
  • The dyes portion of the West Virginia law will be enacted in schools beginning August 1.2025 March 29, Kristen Rogers, “Over half of US states are trying to eliminate food dyes. Here’s what you can do now”, in CNN, archived…. From the entry West Virginia
  • The page was indeed still damp and the scent of fresh aniline dye flooded Millie with euphoria.2020, Louise Erdrich, The Night Watchman, Corsair (2021), page 365. From the entry aniline
  • But this does not have the slightly yellow glow of things made with luminescent dye.2020, N. K. Jemisin, The City We Became, Orbit, page 218. From the entry luminescent
  • Let the e-girls put hearts on their faces and dye their hair.2019 October, Claire Clements, “Claire's Corner: The VSCO Phenomenon”, in The Sidekick, page 9. From the entry e-girl
  • Vitamin D 3 was fluorescently labeled using a phenothiazinium dye and added to cultures of D.2015 July 6, “UV-Stressed Daphnia pulex Increase Fitness through Uptake of Vitamin D 3”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI. From the entry phenothiazinium
  • The number and viability of macrophage cells were assessed by trypan blue dye exclusion using a hematocytometer.2015 July 15, Chunmei Ma et al., “Toll-Like Receptor 9 Inactivation Alleviated Atherosclerotic Progression and Inhibited Macrophage…. From the entry hematocytometer
  • MB is a widely used dye in dying cotton, wool, acrylic and silk.2014, ANS Rao, VT Venkatarangaiah, “The effect of cathode materials on indirect electrochemical oxidation of methyl orange, malachite…. From the entry antibiodegradable
  • A collection of old reagents, dyes and glassery is also exposed.2012, Luigi Campanella, 22nd International Conference on Chemistry Education/11th European Conference on Research in Chemical Education. From the entry glassery
  • The Cy dyes are shipped as a desiccate in sealed packs.2011, Virgil A. Rhodius, Carol A. Gross, “Using DNA Microarrays to Assay Part Function”, in Christopher Voigt, editor, Methods in…. From the entry desiccate
  • Examples would include arson accelerants, bank robbery explosive dye packs, and lacrymators (tear gas).2011, William Jerry Chisum, Brent E. Turvey, Crime Reconstruction, →ISBN, page 262. From the entry lacrymator
  • The reason black dye works so well for ebonizing wood is that dye is transparent.2010, Bob Flexner, Understanding Wood Finishing - How to Select and Apply the Right Finish. From the entry ebonize
  • He has a severe comb-over of thin, dyed red hair and long yellow teeth.2010, Mary Hanlon Stone, Invisible Girl, Philomel Books, →ISBN, page 193. From the entry Harry Potterish
  • Dad had dyed his hair and may even have been wearing manscara.2009, Lara Fox, Miss Understanding: My Year In Agony, Hodder Children's Books, published 2010, →ISBN. From the entry manscara
  • On our first meeting he'd asked me if I dyed my hair.2007, Cesca Martin, Agony Angel, Troubadour Publishing, pages 125–6. From the entry growler
  • Then the dandruff shampoo bonds with the dye and carries it down the drain when you rinse.2007, Somer Flaherty, Jen Kollmer, Girl in a fix: quick beauty solutions and why they work, Zest Books, page 20. From the entry dye job
  • Cochineals were cultivated for their dye in the New World long before the arrival of the Spaniards.2003, Thomas Eisner, “The Opportunists”, in For the Love of Insects, Cambridge, Mass.; London: The Belknap Press of Harvard University…. From the entry cochineal
  • Fiber dyes are easily absorbed by skin, so always wear rubber gloves while tie-dying.2003, Dawn Cusick, Megan Kirby, The Michaels Book of Arts & Crafts, →ISBN, page 444. From the entry tie-dying
  • Gerhard Domagk discovered that the red dye Prontosil is active against streptococcal infections in mice and humans.2001, Leslie Iversen, Drugs: A Very Short Introduction, Oxford, page 9. From the entry sulphanilamide
  • Because this dye must be oxidized to become colored, Michaelis proposed that mitochondria are cellular oxidizing agents.1993, David E. Sadava, “Mitochondria”, in Cell Biology: Organelle Structure and Function, Boston, Mass.; London: Jones and Bartlett…. From the entry Janus
  • There was no evidence of either the addition of paint or dye or of reembroidery.1993, The J. Paul Getty Museum Journal: Volume 20, 1992, →ISBN, page 111. From the entry reembroidery
  • If the dye is for a light color such as peach, more dry dye could be used.1990, Lila Fretz, Hooking Rugs: Storey’s Country Wisdom Bulletin, page 27. From the entry peach
  • The dye-bath mothproofers are permanent-type mothproofers which are as the name implies applied in the dye bath.1964, Arnold Mallis, Handbook of Pest Control: The Behavior, Life History, and Control of Household Pests, MacNair-Dorland Company. From the entry mothproofer
  • Four of them can now be dyed without increase, French green, gingerline, deer colour, orange colour.1910, James Ludovic Lindsay Earl of Crawford, Bibliotheca Lindesiana - Volume 5, page 195. From the entry gingerline

Meaning of dye

  1. noun A colorant, especially one that has an affinity to the substrate to which it is applied.
  2. noun Any hue or color.
  3. verb To colour with dye, or as if with dye.

Full definition of dye

Questions about dye in a sentence

How do you use dye in a sentence?
Dye is used as a noun and verb. For example: “You look different. Have you had your hair dyed?”
What is a short sentence with dye?
“The dye worked its way through.”
What does dye mean?
Dye means a colorant, especially one that has an affinity to the substrate to which it is applied.

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Adapted from Wiktionary: dye (page history and authors) and the entries each sentence comes from. Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws chose the sentences, left out offensive ones and quotations older than 1900, and marked the word in each. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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