cerise

Example Sentences

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The garden now has 15 distinct rooms, affectionately given names such as Punchbowl, a space with an ombre effect, thanks to gradations of rhododendron colors from cerise to pink to white.

From Seattle Times • Aug. 23, 2022

When we found her, she was in a cerise dress ornamented with black lace, two carmine stones in her ears, flanked by a couple of loutish youths in masks and hoodies, taking selfies.

From New York Times • Nov. 11, 2021

At Boden, it’s all tomato-red cardigans and spotty cerise frocks.

From The Guardian • Jul. 26, 2018

An untrimmed monobrow might be just add the right soupçon of perversity, whereas shaving off one eyebrow and dying the remaining one cerise, might not.

From Slate • May 23, 2016

He had four hundred Ligaroti pennants printed up in the horse’s colors, cerise and white polka dots, and attached to canes for waving.

From "Seabiscuit: An American Legend" by Laura Hillenbrand