How to Use polychromatic in a Sentence

polychromatic

adjective
  • Or, amble along the Rock Creek Loop for polychromatic forests and gurgling creeks.
    — Stephanie Vermillion, Travel + Leisure, 20 Oct. 2025
  • Its windows will have a polychromatic film, which can reflect different colors based on lighting.
    — Jolene Almendarez, Cincinnati Enquirer, 9 Oct. 2025
  • Google had placed a black rectangle over its polychromatic logo; Wikipedia’s Web site was turned black; and Craigslist was shuttered.
    — Vanityfair.com, VanityFair.com, 9 Feb. 2017
  • Look through it and into the two drapes behind, and is as if the viewer’s vision is being filtered three times over resulting in an abyssal, polychromatic illusion.
    — Seth Combs Writer, San Diego Union-Tribune, 28 Feb. 2021
  • The $1,400 printer is long on potential, but is currently short on polychromatic goodness.
    — Joseph Flaherty, WIRED, 25 Jan. 2013
  • The backbone exponent is strikingly different from its polychromatic cousins.
    — Quanta Magazine, 7 Feb. 2024
  • The art collection bolsters the cheerful, polychromatic spirit of the interiors.
    — Mayer Rus, Architectural Digest, 1 July 2026
  • Sculptures in both civilizations were also richly polychromatic; their colors washed away with time or scrubbed clean by misinformed restorers in later centuries.
    — Steven Litt, cleveland, 23 July 2021
  • From a windowless control room nearby, a team of engineers in blue and orange coveralls monitored the operation, their faces lit by the polychromatic glow from a hodgepodge of screens.
    — WIRED, 28 Feb. 2023
  • The show fills in all the blanks and takes place in a polychromatic 1948 that suggests the Technicolor melodramas of Douglas Sirk.
    — Darren Franich, EW.com, 14 Sep. 2020
  • So, despite obvious monochromatic aspects, the day in Washington also asserted a sort of polychromatic nature.
    — Martin Weil, Washington Post, 25 Nov. 2023
  • With their assortment, the pair wanted to offer easy, multifunctional products that reflected Ribeiro’s polychromatic outlook.
    — Christian Allaire, Vogue, 27 Sep. 2022
  • The amplifier is designed, engineered and built in the UK and has the unmistakable polychromatic spherical controls which are used to select the power and gain controls.
    — Mark Sparrow, Forbes, 21 Sep. 2021
  • Leaf peepers can hike, mountain bike, or ride on horseback through the polychromatic forest and stay at the Stoweflake Mountain Resort and Spa, which offers special fall tours by car, boat, or zip line.
    — Stacey Leasca, Travel + Leisure, 15 Aug. 2023
  • The iridescence of a scarab beetle’s back — symbolic in many cultures — inspired the Nefertiti model, embroidered with polychromatic crystals, rhinestones and sequins.
    — Alex Wynne, WWD, 3 Sep. 2019
  • In all, Saturday probably offered a glittering glimpse of a fall day out of legend and memory, of long-ago football games and sunlit excursions on roads and trails embellished by the fiercely polychromatic hues of tree after roadside tree.
    — Martin Weil, Washington Post, 19 Nov. 2023
  • Known as la fioritura, this annual flowering creates a stunning polychromatic visual across the plateau of Castelluccio di Norcia in the Umbria region of the country.
    — Kelly Corbett, House Beautiful, 14 July 2020
  • While requisite health protocols, including a ban on spectators, have sapped the Games of both color and human connection, the stores have become a substitute arena of polychromatic cultural discovery for some.
    — New York Times, 1 Aug. 2021
  • The archway, which has been here for more than 30 years, straddles H Street and stands as a polychromatic symbol of China, near a crosswalk that has been decorated with signs of the Chinese zodiac.
    — Martin Weil, Washington Post, 24 Sep. 2017
  • In the middle, like some scar or deformity, lies a jagged expanse of civilization, garish polychromatic swaths of development blending into one another with only jutting casino high-rises and the slash of Highway 50 serving as compass points.
    — Sacramento Bee, 30 Jan. 2024
  • The new fascia has a perfectly symmetrical design, centered on a circular power on/off sphere which uses the company’s familiar polychromatic indicator lighting, offering a clear and simple indication of the amplifier’s status.
    — Mark Sparrow, Forbes, 4 May 2022
  • At gala soirees after 2010, Franca surprised with choices that were polychromatic and histrionic, or candidly ethereal, with macro prints, animalier, feathers, embroidery, and important jewelry.
    — Federico Chiara, Vogue, 19 Sep. 2022

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