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Example sentences for "browns"

Lexicographically close words:
browned; browner; brownest; brownish; brownness; brownstone; brows; browse; browsed; browses
  1. Too much heat browns the loaf before it has time to bake in the centre.

  2. Brush the pastry with milk and as soon as it browns lightly cover with a pie plate to prevent taking on too deep a color.

  3. Catharine's hands were resting on a newspaper they had evidently just put down, and she was gazing absently across the lights and shadows, the limpid blues and browns of the tree-locked pool before her.

  4. The walls were, of course, wreathed in the pale golds and dignified browns of old books.

  5. With the offshore banks, particularly with the Georges area and Browns Bank and to a certain extent, also, the western portion of the Inner Grounds, the writer has had a considerable personal acquaintance from which to draw.

  6. The small, rocky spots are known by other names, such as Browns Head Ground (a herring ground in June), where the fishermen catch a few rock cod.

  7. Deep reds, rich yellows, and golden browns will seem to bring sunlight into a sunless room.

  8. It flows easily into the lighter browns and yellows of all the lower wall spaces.

  9. I suppose the Browns were at her ladyship’s last night.

  10. As for you,” she continued, addressing herself to her eldest sister, “I was quite surprised to hear how you went on about the Browns and the Thompsons.

  11. How quickly the subtle browns and saffrons and vermilions fade!

  12. For instance, golden browns are seen mostly in pieces woven before the middle of the XVIII Century, and azure blue in pieces woven before the XIX Century.

  13. For very dark browns and black, iron pyrites has been largely used in both old and modern rugs; but unfortunately the dye has a corrosive effect on the wool, so that the black knots of old rugs are often worn to the warp.

  14. Greys and browns are sometimes derived from gall nuts, and reddish brown from henna.

  15. Wools dyed with corrosive browns are also used in the fields and enhance the effect of designs of contrasting colours, which stand out in bold relief.

  16. The colour scheme of the late Ming, including the golden browns and deep blues, is largely employed in rugs of this period.

  17. In the first sub-group the prevailing colours are dark reds and browns with minor quantities of blue, green, and ivory.

  18. When we are intimate enough with the Browns to be aware of Jane Brown's passion, we understand the father's manner and the mother's look.

  19. Even among the ordinary Joneses and Browns of the world we see that it is so.

  20. It need not be said here how high above the ways of the Browns soared the ideas of the Marchioness of Kingsbury.

  21. However, from the road towards Sleights the huge building looks picturesque enough, with the river flowing smoothly over the broad dam fringed by the delicate faded greens and browns of the trees.

  22. Every village nestles in a dense grove of date-palms, and one cannot conceive a lovelier harmony than that which is made by the combination of the browns below with the sea-green of the sweeping branches and the flame-like orange of the fruit.

  23. Now, the way you manage the Browns in the story is also exasperating.

  24. And now the Pottses have cut the Smiths and Browns and Johnsons and Thompsons and the rest entirely, for they are convinced that there was a preconcerted design to play a trick upon them.

  25. And there was even greater merriment when the Browns arrived with two pairs of flatirons.

  26. Those Browns don't seem to be very definite, somehow," said Stack, thoughtfully.

  27. A few nights later the Browns had a tea-party, to which Mr. Lamb was invited.

  28. From Boulder Pass a trail leads to Kintla Lake; from Browns Pass a trail to Bowman Lake.

  29. All the reds and yellows and browns were gone, and the gusts whistled fiercely among the gray branches.

  30. Everywhere the foliage glowed with the deep reds and yellows and browns of October, and afar hung a faint bluish haze, like an early sign of Indian summer.

  31. There were seventeen miles of road ahead, but the browns made little of them.

  32. The browns stood on their hind legs for a moment, endeavouring to tie themselves in knots; then the whip spoke, and they came to earth, straightened themselves out with a flying plunge, and wheeled out of the station yard and up the street.

  33. Just as they get fairly at work, the Browns (the Smiths' successors) arrive, with an appalling display of stock.

  34. With regard to the natural colours of furs, the browns that command the highest prices are those that are of a bluish rather than a reddish tendency.

  35. White is also permissible upon some light browns and greys, but brown motley colours and greys should never be in contrast.

  36. I always liked all the Winslows, and I can't find any particular affection for the Browns in my heart when I search it--there's no one nearer than cousins and two nieces on that side anyway.

  37. But letters had been despatched to the various relatives of the dying woman, and Browns of varying degrees of kindred had been arriving in Fayre.

  38. For a few moments, the landscape strikes us as being a rather sombre picture in browns and greens, and we cannot see a single human being anywhere in the scene.

  39. This morning very early our men went to set Browns house on fire but did not efect it.

  40. She's rather above the Browns and the Tozers, you understand.

  41. The Browns and the Pigeons, and--everybody else, of course.

  42. Such browns and pinks among the withering ling; such gleaming greens among the bilberry leaf; such reds among the turning ferns; such fiery touches on the mountain ashes overhanging the Red Brook!

  43. He hung beside the window, thrilling with enchantment and delight, drinking in the soft air, the beauty of the evening clouds, the wonderful greens and silvers and fiery browns of the poplars.

  44. Under surface, as it shows when the butterfly is at rest, beautifully marbled in creamy browns and deeper browns.

  45. The more important of these are indicated in the synopsis of the Meadow-browns on page 227.

  46. While some of the older herdsmen wore slung over the shoulders the distinctive goatskin of their calling, most of the younger were attired in suits of corduroy, sun-faded into glorious harmonies of golds and browns and blues.

  47. Jars, and plates, and pots, and vases, in the greens and yellows and browns that look so tempting and are so cheap.


  48. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "browns" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.