14 example sentences using ochre.
Ochre used in a sentence
Ochre in a sentence as a noun
White text instead of ochre yellow might be a better choice.
"This," he says, "Is a Pioneer Ridge carrot, in deep ochre with leaves in a color called 'hazy forest.
Human skeletal remains stained with red ochre were discovered[by whom?
We describe color names by association — sky blue, grass green, ochre, rose, pink, violet.
James Gurney gets a lot of mileage out of the "six-pack" white, black, raw umber, yellow ochre, venetian red, and cobalt.
" [1]"That fits well with the discovery of a 70,000-year-old block of ochre etched with cross-hatching in Blombos cave in South Africa.
And do people still paint by spitting ochre against the edge of their hand onto rocks, or has painting evolved with technology?
Ochre in a sentence as an adjective
For example, iron oxide, titanium oxide, burnt umber, and yellow ochre.
So paints may have varying quantities of red ochre, titanium white, carbon black, ultramarine, cochineal, etc.
Then, because of the composition of that red ochre material, only the drawings that were made with that stuff stick around for long enough for us to see them.
Every few thousand years some small group of people in a new random spot on earth somehow magically decides to do that hand thing with red ochre on a rock face?
It seems possible that there’s something about the red ochre hand motif is hardwired into human brain and is related to language development.
So the statement shifts from many human groups picked same thing to express themselves to multiple self expressive groups discovered ochre techniques and produced artwork that survived to this day.
" For example, if you have to say "Japan is the ochre line" or "people 45 or older are the vermillion line, while people 20 or younger are the carmine line", that may be a problem in some circles, even if the two colors are easy to distinguish visually.