How to Use sepia in a Sentence

sepia

noun
Definition of sepianext
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  • The switch again from the sepia-toned film to the full-color foliage of a new realm.
    — Ling Ma, The Atlantic, 16 May 2022
  • These are problems that no amount of sepia can wash away.
    — New York Times, 27 Aug. 2021
  • The viewers come in neutral shades of gray and sepia, as well as in capri blue.
    — Michelle Matthews | Mmatthews@al.com, al, 20 July 2023
  • The first few scenes of Stalker are urban ones, shot in sepia.
    — Josephine Livingstone, New Republic, 2 June 2017
  • With just a touch of shimmer and a rich sepia tone, the dress was a perfect choice for the 41-year-old mom of five.
    — Rebekah Lowin, Country Living, 24 Nov. 2019
  • The result is a fond, earnest, sepia-toned book, the color of old clippings.
    — New York Times, 5 Jan. 2022
  • Hanging in the air was a thick cloud of yellow dust that looked more like a sepia-toned fog.
    — Steve Annear, BostonGlobe.com, 31 May 2022
  • Melancholy string music plays over the rich, sepia tones.
    — Los Angeles Times, 19 Oct. 2020
  • Yet the sources of mistrust of Covid-19 vaccine trials aren’t just sepia-toned.
    — Eric Boodman, STAT, 25 Sep. 2020
  • For the love of Aluche, do not use sepia filters for scenes set in Mexico.
    — Fidel Martinez, Los Angeles Times, 28 Apr. 2022
  • One, done in about 1847, shows the outline of the cathedral’s two towers set in a sepia-colored fog.
    — Elaine Sciolino, Smithsonian Magazine, 9 Sep. 2020
  • Some changes, such as adding a filter to make the photo sepia or black and white, will still be flagged by the system.
    — Samantha Murphy Kelly, CNN, 27 Feb. 2023
  • It’s all draped in an evocative sepia tone, more home-carved and burnished than late-night noir.
    — Noah Shachtman, Rolling Stone, 18 Mar. 2023
  • Over the course of two weeks the artist set the stage by making the first marks with a sepia tone crayon for each distinct image.
    — John Zotos, Dallas News, 1 Aug. 2019
  • The sepia-toned pic pays total homage to the old cover, but with a more modern update.
    — Carolyn Twersky, Seventeen, 12 Feb. 2021
  • But, of course, the memory was still there, sepia at the edges with shame, and, like a gust of wind, Brathwaite’s death had pulled it back up.
    — Gabrielle Bellot, The New York Review of Books, 27 Feb. 2020
  • Teens can print photos in black and white, color, or sepia tones and even opt for a border.
    — Lindsey Hunter Lopez, USA TODAY, 17 Mar. 2021
  • For pale skin, this can mean sepia browns, while medium and olive skin tones can go for milk chocolate shades.
    — Georgia Day, Vogue, 11 Oct. 2023
  • The woman in the sepia toned photo from the 1890s appears dark complected.
    — Nora Mathison, Scientific American, 28 Sep. 2023
  • Taylor caught in sepia both the isolation and the camaraderie of camp life.
    — Dan Rodricks, baltimoresun.com, 27 May 2017
  • The sky overhead was a smoky sepia as fire crews from across the region battled nearby flames, Buzzell said.
    — Lyndsay Winkley, sandiegouniontribune.com, 10 Oct. 2017
  • Reading mode turns the screen grayscale and then applies a night mode-style sepia tone to everything.
    — Ron Amadeo, Ars Technica, 20 June 2017
  • Twenty-four teams played there through the first two rounds, some bathed in the sepia tones of late-afternoon light that streams through the windows.
    — Billy Witz, New York Times, 26 Mar. 2021
  • Print black-and-white or sepia-tone photos and glue them atop plain paper shipping tags.
    — Sarah Martens, Better Homes & Gardens, 1 Oct. 2022
  • The 48-card set features players in black and white or sepia portrait photos.
    — Marc Bona, cleveland, 21 Mar. 2021
  • At night the Mission District restaurant grows sepia-toned.
    — Esther Mobley, San Francisco Chronicle, 29 May 2018
  • The video, posted the day after Russia launched an invasion of Ukraine, is lit in sepia tones.
    — Washington Post, 28 Feb. 2022
  • The close-up of Stormi's face is next to a sepia-toned photo of Kylie that appears to be from when the 25-year-old was a toddler herself.
    — Angela Andaloro, Peoplemag, 13 Jan. 2023
  • There’s an old sepia-toned post card featuring the faces of that old 1878 Clinton baseball team.
    — Thomas Farragher, BostonGlobe.com, 15 Apr. 2022
  • The resulting haze puts a natural sepia filter on the city at dusk.
    — WIRED, 13 Nov. 2023

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