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tanned

adjective as in brunet

Strong match

adjective as in brunette/brunet

adjective as in tawny

adjective as in weather-beaten

noun as in brunette

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Example Sentences

As she began to question her choice of tan boots, a "serious yet good-looking guy" wandering around the restaurant caught her eye.

Tan says the purpose of the initiative is to spread the benefits of the growing digital economy to more people as Singapore “upskills.”

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Tan, who is tall and slim, talks at length about the use of hydroponics—replacing soil with a water-based solution in which sensors test electrical conductivity and painstakingly gauge the ratios between specific nutrients.

Eighteen months on, it is now Tan’s only form of social media.

The tan-wall option adds a touch of class to any gravel bike.

Thousands of platinum-blonde manes brush against bare, perma-tanned backs moist with snow.

You go for your gold-digger lessons, then you go get waxed and tanned.

The men are smoking cigars, the women are tanned and bedecked.

Black plastic sunglasses rest atop his buzzed hair, above a tanned face with sharp features.

The Babe showed up, too, arriving late, as usual, and looking tanned as a lifeguard.

The old man, grizzled, tanned and seamed, leant weakly against the parapet.

I would rather go to church with Dolly in homespun, than ride in a carriage beside that shrivelled piece of tanned leather.

The sun had long since tanned his skin to a rich bronze; there were scars on cheeks, forehead, hands.

Surely not more than twenty years of age, of medium height, a peach complexion, tanned a little but fair to look at.

When it is tanned (says Dr. Grew) it is excessively hard, and thicker than the skin of any other terrestrial animal.

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

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