How to Use ultramarine in a Sentence

ultramarine

1 of 2 noun
  • The waitress' hair was a dark brown, and she was blessed with flawless, snowy white skin and eyes of ultramarine blue.
    — Ryan Coleman, Entertainment Weekly, 19 June 2026
  • Plus, the new ultramarine and green pigments are better suited for deep skin tones, bringing the range to 44 diverse shades.
    — Grace McCarty, Glamour, 18 Mar. 2026
  • And for the ultramarine blue that French artist Yves Klein patented in 1960.
    — Jenn Harris, Los Angeles Times, 16 Apr. 2026
  • The Dutch artist applied ultramarine to mundane scenes of ordinary people with the skill of a master and the self-restraint of a child.
    — Washington Post, 23 Dec. 2021
  • Before Prussian blue was discovered, painters had to use indigo dye, smalt, or the pricey ultramarine made from lapis lazuli for deep-blue hues.
    — Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 20 June 2022
  • Black, white and pink are the same names Apple uses, but for some reason, Currys has called ultramarine blue, while teal is listed as green.
    — David Phelan, Forbes.com, 16 Aug. 2025
  • Black, white and pink are the same names Apple uses, but for some reason, Currys has called ultramarine blue, while teal is listed as green.
    — David Phelan, Forbes.com, 15 Aug. 2025
  • This system led to, among other things, the creation of French ultramarine, one of the first affordable blue pigments on a painter’s palette.
    — Kat Eschner, Smithsonian, 15 Aug. 2017
  • And some, like the woman in Germany, were skilled enough to be trusted to work with a rare and expensive material like ultramarine.
    — Megan Schmidt, Discover Magazine, 10 Jan. 2019
  • The new colors are great (ultramarine is gorgeous) and access to Apple Intelligence is a vote-winner on its own.
    — David Phelan, Forbes, 18 Dec. 2024
  • Yellow-green, coral, pale peach, navy, burnt caramel, cream and dusty ultramarine all made it into Cerruti’s menswear fashions — but they were always handled with restrain.
    — Thomas Adamson, The Seattle Times, 23 June 2017
  • There’s the livelier plum and three unmissable options, fuchsia, star fruit and the spectacular ultramarine.
    — David Phelan, Forbes, 7 Oct. 2024
  • Only then can the brilliant ultramarine that color skies and the Virgin Mary’s dress in many European paintings be retrieved.
    — Marissa Fessenden, Smithsonian, 21 Mar. 2018
  • The blue is artificial ultramarine combined with titanium white.
    — Washington Post, 5 Oct. 2022
  • Researchers found that when winter drenches the atmosphere in a deep, pervasive blue, reindeer tapetum also darkens into a rich, reflective ultramarine.
    — Katie Liu, Discover Magazine, 26 Oct. 2023
  • Skeletal lines in silk pique applique, in an ultramarine blue inspired by a painting by the post-war French nouveau realist Yves Klein, adorned the front, from just below the neck to just above the hem.
    — Washington Post, 16 Sep. 2019
  • In addition, ultramarine paint used extensively in the Kenwood painting is not found in Philadelphia’s.
    — Gareth Harris, CNN Money, 2 Sep. 2025
  • White fire-resistant fabric floated towards the water, then disappeared into the deep ultramarine expanse of the Pacific Ocean.
    — Literary Hub, 7 Nov. 2025
  • Golden Artist Colors, a paint company in New York, noted the dearth of titanium white could limit the production of mixed blue paints, such as light phthalo blue and light ultramarine.
    — Washington Post, 23 Dec. 2021
  • Armani Beauty has also introduced 18 new shades featuring ultramarine and green pigments, which are better suited for deep and tan skin tones, bringing its range to 44 diverse offerings.
    — Ariana Yaptangco, Glamour, 19 Feb. 2026
  • Every evening, thirty minutes before sunset, the space will again be muted with LED turquoises and ultramarines to mimic the late afternoon skies and light up the minimalist white walls—the altar will glow at the front of the dark wooden pews.
    — Alexandra Pereira, Condé Nast Traveler, 18 June 2017
  • The pigments are variously derived from plants, minerals, animals, insects, and, like synthetic ultramarine, from nothing more magical than chemistry experiments.
    — Mark Feeney, BostonGlobe.com, 15 Mar. 2018
  • All 43 sea-view rooms and villas—eight directly on the sand, others a mighty but rewarding 80 steps above and with enormous terraces—are gracefully decorated by Parisian interior designer François Champsaur, with walls painted peppery red, turmeric orange, mint green, or ultramarine blue.
    — Angelina Villa-Clarke, Condé Nast Traveler, 17 Nov. 2025
  • The only color outside of Barrett’s paintings is accents of La Sirena’s signature blue, which is inspired by Majorelle Blue, a mix of cobalt and ultramarine trademarked by French painter Jacques Majorelle in the 1920s for his Jardin Majorelle in Marrakech, Morocco.
    — Jess Lander, San Francisco Chronicle, 8 Apr. 2026

ultramarine

2 of 2 adjective
  • The phones come in onyx black, ultramarine blue and glacial green.
    — Jim Rossman, Dallas News, 2020-04-16
  • The British brand’s new Curve calf leather bag comes in colors including lime green, chrome green, Welsh red and ultramarine blue.
    — Los Angeles Times, 2021-05-26
  • Figuring out how to stabilize an ultramarine blue pigment so it could be used in foundation formulas for the first time.
    — Hana Hong, Marie Claire, 2019-09-03
  • For example, many of the colorants that are used in makeup are mineral pigments, iron oxides, ultramarine colorants, etc.
    — Joyann King, Harper's BAZAAR, 2014-05-09
  • The wine is made from grapes grown down the hill from us at a vineyard sloping toward the ultramarine Limmat River, which snakes through Zurich.
    — Adam H. Graham, Condé Nast Traveler, 2018-05-02
  • Two years later, after the artist’s death, his widow shepherded a coffee table filled with the same ultramarine pigment to market, based on the late artist’s prototype.
    — Elise Taylor, Vogue, 2021-06-23
  • One archetypal medieval gown in deep ultramarine velvet had structured straps diagonally across the bust, leading the eye down to floor length slit sleeves — styles worn by queens in court.
    — Thomas Adamson, The Seattle Times, 2017-07-05
  • Some, of night skies, embed white dots, for stars, in glazes of a dense black, with subliminal admixtures of, Celmins recently told me, ultramarine, raw umber, and ochre.
    — Peter Schjeldahl, The New Yorker, 2017-02-27
  • Blue rubber mulch slopes upward from the pool, extending the yard’s clean ultramarine look, all accentuated by aggregate coated with gray non-slip adhesive paint.
    — R. Daniel Foster, latimes.com, 2018-07-06
  • Seeking a durable blue paint 300 years earlier, Vermeer would have been limited to natural ultramarine blue.
    — Washington Post, 2021-12-23
  • As a plein-air artist, Laub worked almost exclusively outdoors, in all kinds of weather, and used only six tubes of oil paint: ultramarine blue, manganese blue, rose madder deep, cadmium orange, cadmium yellow light, and titanium white.
    — Edith Newhall, Philly.com, 2017-05-04

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