"olive" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- They have olive-brown upperparts and white underparts heavily streaked with black; the flanks have an olive hue.
- In the moonlight, her olive hue could not be distinguished; the glow, coming through her hair, gave it a blonde effect rather than brunette.
- The greenish light, catching the yellow dye, gave an olive hue to the disguised features of Myra Reldon.
- The clouds are sinking lower, and assume an olive hue.
- The amber promptly fluoresced - a bilious olive hue, so that the mock-flesh appeared alive again, though gangrenous.
- The racketeer had a long, tapering face; its hollow cheeks were a nearly olive hue.
- Under some lights it looked dark, but when she lifted her head only the slightest touch of olive hue was noticeable.
- Fair olive-skinned people have light skin that in cold weather may seem "fair" or "pale", but a slight but usually noticeable olive hue remains.
- She was wearing a black velvet dress, and in the modulated light of the apartment, her complexion had a slightly olive hue.
- The animal is brown with olive green hue.
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