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How to use fuchsia in a sentence

12 example sentences · noun, adjective

Fuchsia means a popular garden plant, of the genus Fuchsia, of the Onagraceae family, shrubs with red, pink or purple flowers. Example: “She tilted a hand topped with long rectangular nails in furious fuchsia towards her cheeks and fluttered the fingers, fanning.”

Examples of fuchsia by meaning

nounA popular garden plant, of the genus Fuchsia, of the Onagraceae family, shrubs with red, pink or purple flowers.

  • Drenched were the cold fuchsias, round pearls of dew lay on the flat nasturtium leaves1922, Katherine Mansfield, At The Bay (Selected Stories, Oxford World's Classics paperback 2002, 281)

nounA purplish-red colour, the color of fuchsin, an aniline dye.

  • She tilted a hand topped with long rectangular nails in furious fuchsia towards her cheeks and fluttered the fingers, fanning.2006, Tsitsi Dangarembga, The Book of Not, Faber & Faber Limited (2021), page 258

More sentences with fuchsia

  • Her eyes lingered on a putrid floral number in fuchsia, hot pink, and turquoise.1998, Karen Kijewski, Stray Kat Waltz. From the entry yipes
  • Drenched were the cold fuchsias, round pearls of dew lay on the flat nasturtium leaves.1922, Katherine Mansfield [pseudonym; Kathleen Mansfield Murry], “At the Bay”, in The Garden Party, London: Constable & Company, page 1. From the entry nasturtium
  • A fuchsia ruffle-trim dress and a pair of blue platform heels – but Dua Lipa reckons it’s ‘just girly things’.2022 September 5, “Dua’s flash landing…”, in Irish Daily Star. From the entry mermaidcore
  • With the duocolor job, white at the scalp and fuchsia at the nape, she looks like a grumpy powder puff.2017 January 10, A. G. Howard, RoseBlood, Abrams Books, →ISBN. From the entry duocolor
  • I mixed two colors together—a petal pink and fuchsia—but get creative with it and use whatever color or colors you like.2015, Adrianna Adarme, The Year of Cozy, page 94. From the entry petal pink
  • My favorite bloodswap castes for karkat are fuchsia and indigo.2013 April 8, avery (@leirant), Twitter. From the entry bloodswap
  • “Fuchsia,” said the Doctor, “come along this evening and I’ll give you a tonic which you must make her take every day.1946, Mervyn Peake, Titus Groan, London: Eyre & Spottiswoode. From the entry amaranthine
  • The Grey Bower has woodwork of white, with grey walls decorated with a bowerland of rose and fuchsia, and having an undergrowth of blue-bells.1905, The Studio, volume 36, numbers 151-154, page 120. From the entry bowerland
  • Thread the bead in the following pattern or create your own unique pattern: (Pinks) garnet, rose, garnet, fuchsia, garnet, rose, garnet; (Greens) vessonite, lime, olive, lime.2008, Sara Schwittek, Anita Lin, Perfect Match: Earring Designs For Every Occasion. From the entry vessonite
  • There are also (placed there by man or nature?) quite a lot of skinny fuchsias and dense veronicas, all in flower, and some kind of rather attractive grey-leaved sage.1978, Iris Murdoch, The Sea, The Sea, Vintage, published 1999, page 11. From the entry veronica

Meaning of fuchsia

  1. noun A popular garden plant, of the genus Fuchsia, of the Onagraceae family, shrubs with red, pink or purple flowers.
  2. noun A purplish-red colour, the color of fuchsin, an aniline dye.
  3. adjective Having a purplish-red colour.

Full definition of fuchsia

Questions about fuchsia in a sentence

How do you use fuchsia in a sentence?
Fuchsia is used as a noun and adjective. For example: “She tilted a hand topped with long rectangular nails in furious fuchsia towards her cheeks and fluttered the fingers, fanning.”
What is a short sentence with fuchsia?
“My favorite bloodswap castes for karkat are fuchsia and indigo.”
What does fuchsia mean?
Fuchsia means a popular garden plant, of the genus Fuchsia, of the Onagraceae family, shrubs with red, pink or purple flowers.

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