How to use pastel in a sentence

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• Her room is full of kawaii, with pastel plushies, anime posters, and cute stationery.From the entry kawaii
• I sprayed a clearcoat over her pastel drawing, so it ought to last many years without smudging.From the entry clearcoat
• I clearcoated her pastel drawing, so it ought to last many years without smudging.From the entry clearcoat
• Demand for the kitchenware with the pastel colorway has been running low lately, at an average of only 37 units per week.From the entry demand
• Pastel colors, platform shoes, babydoll dresses, sparkles, and heart and kiss motifs.2024 September 21, Heath Owens, “What to Wear to Sabrina Carpenter's 'Short N' Sweet' Tour”, in Cosmopolitan. From the entry mood board
• It's time to unconform; to dispense with the same–same 'pastel and marble' way of doing things.2022, Nicola Moras, Into the Spotlight. From the entry unconform
• Popular “Studygram” accounts showcase elaborately designed notes adorned with calligraphed titles and pastel color pallets.2021 November 9, Noah Do, “Noah's Arc”, in The Cornell Daily Sun, Cornell University, page 5. From the entry studygram
• Fairycore, for example, incorporates things like soft pastels, butterflies, mushrooms, springtime and a sense of magic.2021 October 9, Melissa Hank, “Gear up for Halloween any witch way you like”, in Edmonton Journal, page E3. From the entry fairycore
• Gabby's kitchen was painted a bright canary yellow, far too pastel, too Easter eggy.2008, Bill Floyd, The Killer’s Wife, page 31. From the entry Easter-eggy
• When they are cool, ice them in pretty pastel colours and decorate with interesting sprinkly things.2005, Catherine Fox, Bridget Gillespie, Extreme Anglicanism: A Liturgical Guide to the Sporting Year. From the entry sprinkly
• How could these pastel poseurs – these Mamma’s boys – be winning the war?1999, Paul Leonard, “Special Weapons”, in Stephen Cole, editor, More Short Trips: A Collection of Short Stories (Short Trips), London: BBC…. From the entry mamma's boy
• High Tide is laden with luscious pastels, watery vistas and quirky, weather-beaten clam joints.1988 April 16, Elizabeth Pincus, “Taming Upstart Women”, in Gay Community News, page 7. From the entry watery
• Blue deepened in the east, the few skerricks of cloud went all the shades of pastel.1973, Chester Eagle, “Part Ten: Going Back, Going Forward”, in Who Could Love the Nightingale?, Melbourne, Vic.: Wren Publishing, →ISBN…. From the entry skerrick
• Attending the bride in gowns of pastel green trimmed with white daisies were Mrs.1972, Zarja, page 8. From the entry bridesmatron
• Cutegore is an aesthetic surrounding cutesy, pastel, anime style stuff contrasted with (often pixel-censored) gore and heavy themes.[2025 May 6, @valleyfthdolls, Tumblr. From the entry cutegore
• The official tour moodboard made it clear that pastel colors are the way to go when leaning this direction.2024 September 21, Heath Owens, “What to Wear to Sabrina Carpenter's 'Short N' Sweet' Tour”, in Cosmopolitan. From the entry way to go
• She was dressed in cropped jeans and a pastel pink T-shirt that read, “A Bookworm is my Patronus.”2021, Jennie Marts, Rescuing Harmony Ranch, Hallmark Publishing, →ISBN. From the entry patronus
• Kyle slipped his hands into his pastel pink boardshort pockets.2017, Dani Pettrey, Still Life (Chesapeake Valor; book 2), Bethany House, →ISBN. From the entry boardshort
• She bought only pastel pencils and vased them in cups, great wooden bouquets in mugs on nightstands and kitchen chairs.2009, Emily Bobo, Marvin Bell, Fugue, page 21. From the entry vase
• The platz is ringed by steeply gabled pastel burghers' houses and in the centre sits the medieval town hall.2003 November 2, Tom Templeton, “Worth more than 15 minutes”, in The Guardian, →ISSN, archived from the original on 09 Mar 2021. From the entry gabled
• In a light white dress that I think was waffled cotton, or possibly a very light pastel blue.2001, Rela Mazali, Maps of Women's Goings and Stayings, page 213. From the entry waffled
• Arranged about her are artificial flowers that appear in their varied pale and pastel colors to be faded from the sun.1998, Cormac McCarthy, Cities of the Plain. From the entry replevin
• One wall, covered with paintings of burly, cigared men and buxom, sun-glassed women, is a rainbow of pastels.1981 May 15, Peggy Meill, “In School With Aidron Duckworth”, in Valley News, volume 28, number 286, page 15. From the entry cigared
• We leave out of account,’ said Enderby, ‘as being too inexpensive for serious consideration, a pastel stole at two hundred pounds.1963, Anthony Burgess, Inside Mr Enderby. From the entry nugacity
• Less well known than the Staffordshire brands, Poole pottery is equally distinctive, with delicate pastel flower designs predominating.1963 June 16, Margaret Berkvist, “Fond Recollections of British Mementos; Taste of Yorkshire Pebble Treasures”, in The New York Times, New…. From the entry jampot
• With its pastel cover and pro-LGBTQ+ anthem “You Need to Calm Down,” Lover got a ton of airplay in that two-bedroom apartment.2023 August 31, Frankie de la Cretaz, “Postcard from Camp Gaylore”, in Cosmopolitan. From the entry speak to
• On the way to Belem, we stopped and ate pastel de natas, and afterwards Melanie was sick in a bin on the street.2022, Rosie Brooks, Flo, Grosvenor House Publishing, →ISBN. From the entry pastel de nata
• He was aflood in sentiment, watching the infinite ascension of the women’s backs, curved-straight-old-young-wide-narrow, in bright silks and pastel sweaters: the women.2014, Padma Viswanathan, “[Winter 2004/05] Thursday, December 30”, in The Ever After of Ashwin Rao, Toronto, Ont.: Random House Canada…. From the entry aflood
• As Robert Clergerie, whose unisex Popée shoe comes in an array of pastels and eye-popping metallics, explained the attraction, “It gives manhood to women.”2007 May 24, Karin Nelson, “Keeping Time in Cool Comfort”, in New York Times. From the entry metallic
• You'll notice that all the illustrations are done in different media: some with pencil crayons, some with felts, some with paint, some with chalk pastels.1989, Anne D. Forester, Margaret Reinhard, The Learners' Way, page 116. From the entry felt
• This season, see your favorite classic, the “Lady Poole” unlined all-weather coat in crocus-y pastels: Powder Blue, Shell Pink, Citrus Yellow or Ivory.1967 March 2, London Fog, “Now In Living Color!”, in Xenia Daily Gazette, 86th year, number 87, Xenia, Oh., page 3. From the entry crocus-y
• Soft girl makeup, as the name suggests is a pastel, sweet style that focuses on accentuating natural features with a signature element being blush and faux freckles.2022 November, Vaishnavi Maloth, “Popular Makeup Aesthetics to Follow”, in Tulip, volume 13, number 5, page 66. From the entry accentuate
• They roiled over the sidewalk and flowed around me, a sweaty, old-lady tourist in her long-sleeved, 50 SPF shirt, pants, and pastel hat – a lump in their path.2020, Richard Blanco, Caridad Moro, Nikki Moustaki, Grabbed, page 58. From the entry roil
• Gave him his own 'pastel biker' get up like my Pigsona, but made his main color blue-should've been Cyan, but we'll get it right next time.2020 June 9, @GreenJac, “Victor Eckart”, in Fur Affinity. From the entry pigsona
• The Saudi Arabian consulate in Istanbul is a homely looking place, much smaller than it seems, nestled into a quiet suburban street, and painted pastel yellow.2018 October 21, Martin Chulov, “Jamal Khashoggi: murder in the consulate”, in Katharine Viner, editor, The Guardian, London: Guardian…. From the entry green flag
• The materials are almost as various: different combinations of ink, graphite, graphite pencil, graphite wash, watercolor, pastel, acrylic, oil stick, colored pencil and collage on paper or vellumlike plastic.2008 April 10, Roberta Smith, “Consummate Recycler Meets a Pointillist”, in New York Times. From the entry vellumlike
• They were different from German posters, softer, more homely, the gentle pastel colours flowing into one another as if they had been painted by children anxious to please Mamma.1999, Paul Leonard, “Special Weapons”, in Stephen Cole, editor, More Short Trips: A Collection of Short Stories (Short Trips), London: BBC…. From the entry mamma's boy
• Lights glitter on wet planks, on the functional bodies of the day's catch, and floodlights beglamour the colored dresses and the pastel beach costumes of the crowds that stroll there.1954, Philip Wylie, The Best of Crunch and Des, page 4. From the entry beglamour

Meaning of pastel

1. noun Any of several subdued tints of colors, usually associated with pink, peach, yellow, green, blue, and lavender.
2. noun A drawing made with any of those colors.
3. noun A type of dried paste used to make crayons.

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How do you use pastel in a sentence?

Pastel is used as a noun. For example: “Wool was dyed in the pastel vat.”

What is a short sentence with pastel?

“Wool was dyed in the pastel vat.”

What does pastel mean?

Pastel means any of several subdued tints of colors, usually associated with pink, peach, yellow, green, blue, and lavender.