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• The relucent lake glittered, sparkling playfully, with the hues of dusk.From the entry relucent
• Political colorists can be promiscuous in calling states purple, but my state is true to that hue.2023 May 4, Frank Bruni, “Republicans Are Running Wild in My State”, in The New York Times, archived from the original on 25 Aug 2023. From the entry purple
• The wintering grasses smoldered with a reddish-browh hue, similar to the patches on the bird's coverlet feathers.2021, Peter Cavanagh, “9. Cranes”, in 100 Flying Birds: Photographing the Mechanics of Flight, →ISBN, page 218. From the entry coverlet
• Long, slow cooking liberates the quince's enchanting flavour as well as those distinctive, deep-rose hues.2019, Pam Corbin, Pam the Jam: The Book of Preserves, Bloomsbury Publishing, →ISBN. From the entry quince cheese
• It is a light-greenish hue, more saturated than celadon, less gray than sage.2018 February 13, Katy Kelleher, “Eau de Nil, the Light-Green Color of Egypt-Obsessed Europe”, in The Paris Review. From the entry celadon
• Small dig below hairline on neck, some scattered contact marks but overall a lovely milk chocolatey hue.2015, Stack’s Bowers Galleries, The November 2015 Baltimore Auction: World Coins, Ancient Coins & World Paper Money, →OCLC, page 191…. From the entry milk chocolatey
• The walls had been painted an antique-rose hue but he'd left the plates off the outlets.2014, Christopher Golden, Snowblind, unnumbered page. From the entry antique rose
• When a baby is born, it's always a mystery of the hue of the child.2010, Delores J. Dillard, Papua, New Guinea, 1983, page 27. From the entry chocolate
• Muted terra cotta hues in floor tiles anchor the collection of earth tones.2008, Jack D. Neith, Great Kitchens, page 8. From the entry earth tone
• The effect is that the latter take on hues of the former.2004, Taha Parla, Andrew Davison, Corporatist Ideology In Kemalist Turkey: Progress Or Order?, Syracuse University Press, →ISBN, page 75. From the entry ethnoracialist
• As the valleys darkened, the caps of the hills were swashed in variant hues.2003, Walter Schenck, Shiloh, Unveiled, page 660. From the entry swash
• Nylon's natural hue is grayish and it will revert if mislaundered.1999, Christa Weil, Secondhand Chic, page 223. From the entry mislaunder
• They eliminate picture rolls, tearing, flag waving, hue shift, skew error or color streaking.1973, Signals, volume 28, numbers 1-11, page 109. From the entry flag-waving
• The walls themselves were gold and set with ikons and various religious motifs in bright hues.1965, Attila Zohar, Kings Cross Black Magic, Sydney: Horwitz Publications, page 123. From the entry ikon
• C. care has been taken to corrigate for this change of hue.1953, Yearbook (Aug. Bangs Boghandel), page 92. From the entry corrigate
• Obviously one will be red, but will the other hue be a yellow-red (orange) or a red-purple?1930, Benson H. Paul, C. A. Plaskett, Charles Nicholas Ainslie, A Method for Determining the Color of Agricultural Products. From the entry yellow-red
• It may be slight, and not in kind but only in shadowy dissemblances of texture and hue.1916 February 7, “The Greatest Miracle”, in Hawera & Normanby Star, New Zealand, retrieved 12 Aug 2011, page 2. From the entry dissemblance
• The heavens grow wonderful with purple hue, Soft, rich and deep, peace giving to mine eyes.1913, Hanford Chase Judson, Songs Toward the Sunlight, page 19. From the entry overbend
• Ambrose, avers that the pard’s variety of hue signifies the various impulses of the soul.1902, Richard Thayer Holbrook, Dante and the Animal Kingdom. From the entry pard
• The moon will take on a dark red-copper hue.2025 September 6, Priyali Prakash, “Why is a blood moon called so? Sky gazers in India will see a blood moon on September 7 during a total…. From the entry Rayleigh scattering
• Shoes of all hues, as well as the now ubiquitous hatinators add the finishing touches to your look.2015 June 7, “These Are the Styles That Will Be Hot to Trot Down at the Down Royal Summer Festival”, in Belfast Telegraph. From the entry hatinator
• A large red ribbon scarfed her neck and seemed to have its own strange glow of the same hue.2011, Falling Rain [pseudonym], “Fire on the Sacred Land”, in Ouroboros: Road of Legend, [Bloomington, Ind.]: Xlibris, →ISBN, page 169. From the entry scarf
• The proper hue of deadgrass camouflages the dog along the banks of the Bay, thus making him a more efficient hunter.2011 November 22, Nona Kilgore Bauer, Chesapeake Bay Retriever, Fox Chapel Publishing, page 33. From the entry deadgrass
• All the gneiss roofing slates have vanished, to be replaced by pantiles painting patchworks of all possible orange hues.2004, Richard Fortey, The Earth, Folio Society, published 2011, page 103. From the entry pantile
• Breathing accelerated his skin took on a flamingoish hue.2004, J. Erp, Subterranean Force, page 147. From the entry flamingoish
• The fur is brownish grey in colour which attains a slaty grey hue in winter and becomes browner in summer.1993, Sharad Singh Negi, Kumaun: The Land and the People, page 106. From the entry curve
• I had just moused to the File menu and the pull-down menu repeated the menu bar's hue a dozen shades lighter.1988, MacUser, volume 4. From the entry mouse
• My pignoration, see, is this smaragd, of porraceous hue.1986, Les Murray, editor, The New Oxford Book of Australian Verse, page 214. From the entry porraceous
• They were of different hues, golden, blue, green, violet, red.1954, Ian Fleming, “Table Z”, in Live and Let Die, London: Pan Books, published 1957, page 55. From the entry witch ball
• The feature that struck me most forcibly was the strange hue of their skin, a repulsive, unhealthy pallor, a seeming bloodlessness.1933, Edgar Rice Burroughs, chapter 9, in Lost on Venus. From the entry bloodlessness
• The mean cabin became larger, the fire warmer and more cheerful, and life generally of a more roseate hue.1922, A. M. Chisholm, A Thousand a Plate. From the entry roseate
• The upper wings of the moth which Jacob held were undoubtedly marked with kidney-shaped spots of a fulvous hue.1922 October 26, Virginia Woolf, chapter II, in Jacob’s Room, Richmond, London: […] Leonard & Virginia Woolf at the Hogarth Press, →OCLC…. From the entry fulvous
• These hues are about equidistant on the color compass.1920, Harry Dexter Kitson, Manual for the Study of the Psychology of Advertising and Selling, page 40. From the entry color compass
• The water gets its eerie hue from sunglint, an optical phenomenon that occurs when sunlight reflects directly from the water’s surface into the camera lens.2016 October 29, “Eye me a river”, in New Scientist, number 3097, page 27. From the entry sunglint
• Befuddled, Edell looked to see other Keshiri dancing onto the streets, dressed in black with their faces painted in a variety of unpurple hues.2012, John Jackson Miller, Lost Tribe of the Sith: Star Wars Legends: The Collected Stories, →ISBN. From the entry unpurple
• Unlike other colourwork, in which a single hue is either tinted in lighter tones or shaded into darker tones, verdaille can involve many different hues.2012 June 27, Sheila Singhal, “Elephant No. 269: Verdaille”, in An Elephant a Day. From the entry verdaille
• Her short, spiky hair now had a green tinge and her complexion, once a soft peaches and cream hue, was now a cream-cheesy colour.2010, Deirdre O’Brien, The Adventures of Monkey and Me, Drogheda: Choice Publishing Ltd., →ISBN, page 24. From the entry cream-cheesy
• Mad for abstracting patterns and images from the masonry, at first the hues and linear lay-up of the stone wall appeared haphazard as nature.2009, Mathew Kinsella, The California Tales: A Novel, →ISBN. From the entry scansion

Meaning of hue

1. noun A color, or shade of color; tint; dye.
2. noun The characteristic related to the light frequency that appears in the color, for instance red, yellow, green, cyan, blue or magenta.
3. noun Character; aspect.

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Questions about hue in a sentence

How do you use hue in a sentence?

Hue is used as a noun. For example: “In digital arts, HSV color uses hue together with saturation and value.”

What is a short sentence with hue?

“Breathing accelerated his skin took on a flamingoish hue.”

What does hue mean?

Hue means a color, or shade of color; tint; dye.