10 example sentences using umber.
Umber used in a sentence
Umber in a sentence as a noun
Technically, the first two are French, and umber is Latin, but that's how English works.
" It's like being told, "This is red paint. This is green paint. This is burnt umber paint...", without ever being shown a Picasso, Renoir, or da Vinci.
James Gurney gets a lot of mileage out of the "six-pack" white, black, raw umber, yellow ochre, venetian red, and cobalt.
For example, iron oxide, titanium oxide, burnt umber, and yellow ochre.
But ignoring colour, unless the guts of this is written manually for each to minimize the umber of shifts and adds, you'll be blitting at maybe a tenth of optimal speed if you're lucky.
Umber in a sentence as an adjective
An "old masters" chiaroscuro typically uses burnt umber plus a warm blue, such as aquamarine, for the great lake of "blackness" from which everything else emerges.
If you ground the presentation with messy, imprecise, real world numbers, the logical purity of the subject will not be lost or sullied, the esteem for it's power only more appreciated.
Sadly, history is full of stories like that:> Mummy brown was a rich brown bituminous pigment, intermediate in tint between burnt umber and raw umber, which was one of the favorite colors of the Pre-Raphaelites.
Here's an "unusual" one I read about recently:> He denied having any ID, claimed he could not remember his Social Security umber, and said his name was “Mr. Horrell.”> After police found a photo ID in the vehicle, he claimed the person pictured was his “identical cousin.”---He was arrested and charged with "privacy invasion and refusal to identify himself".
But why did a "large umber of supernodes" today get "taken offline by a problem affecting some versions of Skype"?Synchronized bug in that software – some sort of clock overflow, or update from Skype gone awry?Or a flaw in that software discovered and exploited by others?There must be a lot more to this story.