How to Use ocher in a Sentence

ocher

noun
  • The living room's cypress walls are painted with an ocher glaze for a soft, aged look.
    — M.k. Quinlan, House Beautiful, 27 Mar. 2017
  • Her thick gray hair is twisted around a headband of ocher stone beads, and her wrists are stacked with bracelets.
    — Aurora Almendral, New York Times, 15 May 2017
  • Among the unique objects at Blombos are a number of pieces of ocher.
    — Wyatt Mason, Harper's Magazine, 20 July 2021
  • At the start of the short, paved trail, the green slopes appear smeared with vague suggestions of ocher and mauve.
    — Alissa Greenberg, Mercury News, 13 Apr. 2026
  • My entire closet now is taupes and ocher, and everything is linen.
    — Vogue, 10 Sep. 2018
  • The miners followed along the deposit beds until the ocher petered out.
    — National Geographic, 3 July 2020
  • Peterson has programmed the projector to color it the light ocher of a beach.
    — Kevin Dupzyk, Popular Mechanics, 21 June 2018
  • Surrounding it are oak leaves as well as ghostly stencils of those leaves made with ocher and cinnamon.
    — Los Angeles Times, 6 July 2022
  • The color rocks found at the site were manganese and ocher, perfect for making black and red, respectively.
    — David Grossman, Popular Mechanics, 15 Mar. 2018
  • Still, their palette of blue, greys and white is an update of the red-orange-ocher tile combos found in old Lebanese houses.
    — Ian Phillips, WSJ, 8 Nov. 2018
  • The work’s palette of browns, ochers, white and light blue is an exemplar of Taylor’s odd, frugal color.
    — Roberta Smith, New York Times, 17 Oct. 2023
  • His beautiful women are less flesh and blood than a waltz of curlicues conveyed in a palette of greens, peach, and ocher — nature’s colors.
    — Brian T. Allen, National Review, 11 Jan. 2020
  • Then, the ocher reveals itself as a carpet of yellow blooms, the mauve a blaze of deep purple interspersed with lighter lavender.
    — Alissa Greenberg, Mercury News, 13 Apr. 2026
  • Artifacts in the grave included a bright-red nodule of ocher found near the person’s mouth and several flake-stone objects.
    — Dominique Mosbergen, WSJ, 7 Sep. 2022
  • And in Africa, tree resin and ocher had been used to create similar compounds in ancient communities.
    — Christian Thorsberg, Smithsonian Magazine, 26 Feb. 2024
  • Here, the stucco walls are a rich, natural ocher and pair with 19th-century Neapolitan tile.
    — Kelsey Mulvey, ELLE Decor, 6 Dec. 2022
  • Her stilettos were leopard print, her skirt leather, her coat suede, in a warm ocher color that would have blended nicely with the red-earth airstrips of the African bush.
    — Klara Glowczewska, Town & Country, 9 Oct. 2018
  • Natural materials — feathers, shells, ocher, oil — were talismans to help ward off ills.
    — New York Times, 7 May 2021
  • When mixed together, ocher and bitumen create a sticky mass that was likely attached to stones and other tools, the scientists say.
    — Christian Thorsberg, Smithsonian Magazine, 26 Feb. 2024
  • Their pale, pinkish clay offsets the denser hues of emerald, siena and ocher in the paintings, and their bent and folded planes, wedges and lobes rhyme with the geometries on paper.
    — Leah Ollman, latimes.com, 13 Mar. 2018
  • The person was buried with great care—along with some stone tools and a lump of ocher—in the largest chamber of the cave, beneath an upper chamber decorated with hand stencils.
    — Kiona N. Smith, Ars Technica, 7 Sep. 2022
  • The ocher had been carried a great distance—the nearest source was over 130 miles away—and had been either painted onto the body or sprinkled over the grave.
    — David Maurice Smith, Smithsonian, 23 Aug. 2019
  • If that's the case, the archaeologists say, then the people who made the bladelets and stained the ground with ocher may have been part of the first wave of our species to reach eastern Asia.
    — Kiona N. Smith, Ars Technica, 3 Mar. 2022
  • For five hours, all that can be seen is an endless expanse of ocher shifting to vermilion, corrugated by ancient crags and pocked with swirling violet salt pan lakes.
    — David Prior, Condé Nast Traveler, 24 Jan. 2017
  • Related paintings titled Iberia have masses of black all but obliterating dying embers of white, gray and/or ocher at the bottom.
    — Scott Cantrell, Dallas News, 16 June 2023
  • The faithfully restored three-story hunting lodge has stone walls washed in light-ocher plaster and shutters painted the pale blue characteristic of the region.
    — Vanityfair.com, VanityFair.com, 10 Mar. 2017
  • We were surrounded by space and air and skyscraper-size monoliths of constantly changing texture and color; the light taupe of the Kaibab giving way to the ocher of sandstone.
    — Jamie Quatro, Travel + Leisure, 4 Mar. 2021
  • The stucco walls are in a natural ocher, and the 19th-century Neapolitan tile was hand-painted to mimic parquet flooring.
    — ELLE Decor, 30 Nov. 2022
  • These inks were typically made from soot and ocher, mixed with some kind of binder (usually gum Arabic), then suspended in animal glue, vegetable oil, or vinegar.
    — Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 2 Dec. 2020
  • In the YouTube star Maangchi’s kitchen, the cookbook author and former gamer uses instant hazelnut coffee to flavor her pork and to stain it a gorgeous ocher.
    — Washington Post, 28 Oct. 2020

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