hueless
Americanadjective
Example Sentences
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The bright orange of pumpkins being trucked in from the agricultural fields beyond the community boundary—seen in an instant, the flash of brilliant color, but gone again, returning to their flat and hueless shade.
From "The Giver" by Lois Lowry
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While awaiting the departure of the cars, my observation, flitting to and fro among the livelier characteristics of the scene, has often settled insensibly upon this almost hueless object.
From The Old Apple Dealer (From "Mosses from an Old Manse") by Hawthorne, Nathaniel
When foot by foot we creep o'er the hueless viewless deep To the sob of the questing lead!
From Verses 1889-1896 by Kipling, Rudyard
What hath come to thee? in thy hollow eye And hueless cheek, and thine unquiet motions, Sorrow and Shame and Conscience seem at war To waste thee.
From The Works of Lord Byron. Vol. 4 by Coleridge, Ernest Hartley
Then you look at the unspeakable poverty, the dreariness, the miles of piles of hueless rocks, and are interested.
From McClure's Magazine December, 1895 by Tarbell, Ida M.
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