light-toned
Example Sentences
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Made of solid and veneered ash with no screws or nails, it comes in a light-toned natural finish and the black-stained version pictured here.
From New York Times ● Sep. 13, 2019
“The Lovers” is a romantic comedy of the sort that they used to make, a light-toned but earnest love story with a solidly built framework to govern the action with a nearly architectural precision.
From The New Yorker ● May 3, 2017
Huge patches of light and dark coloration mottle Pluto's surface; most prominent among them is a giant light-toned region that resembles a heart.
From Nature ● Jul. 14, 2015
X-rays are slightly impeded by soft tissues, which show up as gray on the X-ray plate, whereas hard tissues, such as bone, largely block the rays, producing a light-toned “shadow.”
From Textbooks ● Jun. 19, 2013
Looking westward the dark river wound away to the sea, ringed here and there by the highly decorated bridges of light-toned granite peculiar to Maäsau.
From A Modern Mercenary by Prichard, K. (Kate)
