Sentence Examples

1. With Leo gone, as the sky outside went from gray to black, Tom joined his sister at the window, where she stood like a mannequin, half of her behind the mauve drapes.
2. At the centre of the room, under a naked light bulb hanging from a worn flex, were a high lean-back mauve chair and two smaller wooden chairs, one a hard-back Chippendale repro more suited to dining.
3. She had also put on a vintage mauve and dusty pink bohemian dress.
4. I was on what seemed to be a little lawn in a garden, surrounded by rhododendron bushes, and I noticed that their mauve and purple blossoms were dropping in a shower under the beating of the hailstones.
5. Not two feet from her, a mauve widowflower bows down when a bumblebee is added to its weight.