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turquoise - use in sentences
Converse of object
- include: We have necklaces, pendants, earrings, braclets and rings, including turquoise, amber and pearls.
- wear: It is unwise to wear a turquoise formerly worn by one who has died.
- have: The males have turquoise blue on their wings, while the females do not.
- paint: The woodwork is painted a vivid turquoise which, I am informed, was its original color.
- turn: Come dusk, pink clouds of flamingo fill the air and the shallow waters turn turquoise.
Adjective modifier
- pink: Fairly light flowers with a small injection of an accent color, perhaps pink, turquoise or pale yellow.
- blue: What colors, what a collision of colors: green, gray, blue, turquoise, brown.
- bright: Nick was fishing as I arrived and the others stood above him looking down into the bright turquoise of the sea.
- green: Inspiration has come from the 1920s and my color palette works around black, brown, green, turquoise and pink.
- deep: The beaches are beautiful white sand and the sea a deep turquoise, calm and very inviting.
- pale: Its eyes were the pale turquoise of sand under deep water.
Modifies a noun
- lagoon: Drop straight into the shallow turquoise lagoon; the perfect Maldives holiday experience.
- sea: The entrance pool of a turquoise sea tunnel lapped the edges of the floor, over in a far corner.
- mosaic: A number of exquisitely beautiful objects decorated with turquoise mosaic have survived.
- lake: I noticed a clear turquoise lake at the end, in which I thought I saw movement hut was not sure.
- water: Swim & snorkel in the turquoise waters, relax on white sandy beaches.
- ocean: Is set in a wooded valley overlooking a turquoise ocean in South Cornwalls best kept secret.
Noun used with modifier
- crystal-clear: Idyllic palm-fringed coral islands set in the crystal-clear turquoise waters of the Caribbean Sea.
Preposition: in
- color: The design outlines were printed on the paper with a waxy ink which was usually dark blue, royal blue or turquoise in color.
Preposition: of
- sea: Nick was fishing as I arrived and the others stood above him looking down into the bright turquoise of the sea.
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