straw-colored
- a word derived from straw color.
Example Sentences
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Jimmy Carter was always a mystery, this man with the straw-colored hair and clear blue eyes, whose enemies came to despise him while those who would be friends could not understand him.
From Salon • Dec. 30, 2024
While the pouches each look the same, their straw-colored contents come from starkly different places.
From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 17, 2024
One of the last tulips to flower in late spring or early summer, it has straw-colored buds that open to reveal scarlet 2-inch flowers.
From Seattle Times • Apr. 13, 2024
This was the first major neoclassical building erected in Kyiv, with a straw-colored stone facade and vast galleries beneath grand, brick-lined ribbed vaults.
From New York Times • Aug. 10, 2022
He was shivering, his straw-colored hair all over his face, his freckled skin milk-white.
From "Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire" by J. K. Rowling
