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olives

noun as in tan

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Example Sentences

She has eyes like black olives and shoulder-length brown hair.

They just hung around the Mount of Olives evangelizing themselves.

She remembers the house where she lived with her family and the garden where they grew tomatoes, lemons and olives.

Palestinians and their Israeli and international allies are routinely attacked while attempting to harvest olives.

We eat dinner—maybe pasta with black olives and a salad—and watch a movie.

Arrived in the valley of Josaphat, the body was gently placed in a sepulcher of stone not far from the Garden of Olives.

We had sandwiches and chicken salad and olives and three kinds of cake and ice cream for refreshments.

Grain and grapes and olives furnished subsistence for all who did not live to eat.

The best oil was made from olives not fully ripe, but the largest quantity was yielded by the ripened fruit.

Sarelli, who sat on her right hand, seemed to partake of little except olives, which he dipped into a glass of sherry.

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On this page you'll find 17 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to olives, such as: beige, brownish, drab, khaki, biscuit, and bronze.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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