Get to know Ochre better with 10+ real example sentences, the meaning and synonyms like ocher or chromatic.
Ochre meaning
- A clay earth pigment containing silica, aluminum and ferric oxide.
- A somewhat dark yellowish orange colour.
- The stop codon sequence "UAA".
Using Ochre
- The main meaning on this page is: A clay earth pigment containing silica, aluminum and ferric oxide. | A somewhat dark yellowish orange colour. | The stop codon sequence "UAA".
- Useful related words include: ocher, chromatic, earth color, orange yellow.
- In the example corpus, ochre often appears in combinations such as: red ochre, ochre and, yellow ochre.
Context around Ochre
- Average sentence length in these examples: 23.1 words
- Position in the sentence: 8 start, 7 middle, 5 end
- Sentence types: 19 statements, 1 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Ochre
- In this selection, "ochre" usually appears near the start of the sentence. The average example has 23.1 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, red, yellow, grey, contains, striped and piping stand out and add context to how "ochre" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include and buffy ochre and and yellow ochre to create. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "ochre" sits close to words such as abdicate, adapters and adores, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with ochre
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
The Himba women rub ochre on their skin. (8 words)
Perhaps so I could admire the soup’s stunning ochre hue? (11 words)
Natalie Bateman won the $5000 Eurobodalla Award for her acrylic 'Ochre Puddles'. (12 words)
Her mesmerising painting depicts sand hills and edible tuber roots, worked in wavey horizontal lines of dots alternating in sections of white and yellow ochre to create vertical bands that seem to levitate like a noon haze on a desert horizon. (41 words)
Ngqweqe cheerfully sang at the top of his voice as they arrived home at Moroka village, painted in blood-red ochre and half-naked before they were later adorned in colourful traditional blankets during their homecoming ceremony. (37 words)
This has revealed for the first time remarkably preserved mining sites that include ochre extraction beds and pits, digging tools, shattered debris that has been piled by human effort, navigational markers and fire pits. (34 words)
Perhaps so I could admire the soup’s stunning ochre hue? (11 words)
Example sentences (20)
Ochre is a clay that is colored by varying amounts of hematite, varying between 20% and 70%. citation Red ochre contains unhydrated hematite, whereas yellow ochre contains hydrated hematite ( Fe 2 3 • 2 ).
Egyptians would color themselves with red ochre during celebrations. citation Egyptian women used red ochre as a cosmetic to redden cheeks and lips Hamilton R. (2007).
ROW Upholstery was the grey/ochre striped flannel cloth with ochre piping for Alpine White cars, or grey/turquoise flannel with turquoise piping for Black cars.
The set of ochre suppressors was distinct from amber suppressors, so ochre mutants were inferred to correspond to a different nucleotide triplet.
Centrally located in the upscale suburb of Rosebank, Home Suite Hotels offers 28 rooms in rich, warming colors of jade green, clay and ochre.
Her mesmerising painting depicts sand hills and edible tuber roots, worked in wavey horizontal lines of dots alternating in sections of white and yellow ochre to create vertical bands that seem to levitate like a noon haze on a desert horizon.
The ideal hue is lighter than the ochre yellows you may have seen recently, and has a slight blue/green undertone but doesn’t stray into puce or chartreuse.
An MP says iron ochre in Whitehaven Harbour's water is damaging the town's reputation.
As I turned the corner I was greeted by a row of Dunelm's new Elements Fletcher Wall Clocks in a variety of colours, including a ochre yellow, blue and green.
Caitlin seeks out fragments of iron-rich ochre, collects them and processes them by hand.
However, he carries patches of ochre, having rolled in the patch on the western side of the playground, characterised by chemman (red sand).
However, one person gave the Maria Ochre Reversible Floral Duvet Cover and Pillowcase Set a three-star review because Dunelm doesn't sell extra pillowcases to go with the set.
However, when they added fifty-five percent ochre, it turned into a soft, moldable substance, explained Schmidt.
Natalie Bateman won the $5000 Eurobodalla Award for her acrylic 'Ochre Puddles'.
Perhaps so I could admire the soup’s stunning ochre hue?
Ngqweqe cheerfully sang at the top of his voice as they arrived home at Moroka village, painted in blood-red ochre and half-naked before they were later adorned in colourful traditional blankets during their homecoming ceremony.
They sport a complex array of browns, gray, black and buffy ochre.
This has revealed for the first time remarkably preserved mining sites that include ochre extraction beds and pits, digging tools, shattered debris that has been piled by human effort, navigational markers and fire pits.
Grammer, Ochre House's associate producer, plays Raeburn and designed the lighting for the show.
The Himba women rub ochre on their skin.
Common combinations with ochre
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- red ochre 14×
- ochre and 7×
- yellow ochre 6×
- and ochre 5×
- ochre is 4×
- with ochre 3×
- of ochre 3×
- ochre to 3×
- the ochre 3×
- ochre was 3×