auburn

Example Sentences

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Every autumn, as leaves turn from green to auburn and float to the ground, we turn into a nation of outdoor undertakers.

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 16, 2025

On this afternoon, he is dressed in black, auburn hair slicked back.

From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 25, 2025

The land was auburn coloured, covered with dried stalks of recently cut corn, good fodder for hungry sheep.

From BBC • Aug. 9, 2024

More than a half-century later, Lollobrigida still turned heads with a head full of auburn curly hair and her statuesque figure.

From Seattle Times • Jan. 16, 2023

Someone else remarks that it would be a travesty to dye over such a color, a shocking red much brighter than their mother’s auburn.

From "The Night Circus" by Erin Morgenstern