Example Sentences

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His destination, a depression forty feet down into the flowing ochreous void, had in the past proved a honeypot.

From The New Yorker • Mar. 5, 2017

The males were colored black, white and ochreous; the females were a little duller and streaked.

From Time Magazine Archive

It partakes much of the general colors of the male, but much subdued and more of a general ochreous hue, the plumage being buff mottled with brown.

From Game Birds and Game Fishes of the Pacific Coast by Payne, Harry Thom

Its fore wings are ochreous and glossy, with a silvery streak from the base, running almost parallel with the costal margin.

From Butterflies and Moths (British) by Furneaux, William S.

The fore wings are ochreous yellow, crossed by two nearly parallel lines of dark brown.

From Butterflies and Moths (British) by Furneaux, William S.