Sepia is an English word with synonyms like brown or brownness. Below you'll find 10+ example sentences showing how it's used in practice.
Sepia in a sentence
Sepia meaning
- A dark brown pigment made from the secretions of the cuttlefish.
- A dark, slightly reddish, brown colour.
- A sepia-coloured drawing or photograph.
Synonyms of Sepia
Using Sepia
- The main meaning on this page is: A dark brown pigment made from the secretions of the cuttlefish. | A dark, slightly reddish, brown colour. | A sepia-coloured drawing or photograph.
- Useful related words include: reddish brown, burnt sienna, venetian red, brown.
- In the example corpus, sepia often appears in combinations such as: in sepia, sepia tone, sepia which.
Context around Sepia
- Average sentence length in these examples: 24 words
- Position in the sentence: 3 start, 11 middle, 6 end
- Sentence types: 19 statements, 0 questions, 1 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Sepia
- In this selection, "sepia" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 24 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, tough, turned, old, tone, toned and tinted stand out and add context to how "sepia" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include a tough sepia pupa drawing and colours turned sepia from the. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "sepia" sits close to words such as actinium, adherent and adipose, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with sepia
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
Sepia-tinted autograph hunting from the Saudis is of no real-world consequence. (13 words)
Behren’s silverspot caterpillars form a tough sepia pupa, drawing leaves around themselves with silk. (15 words)
Harris’ sister Maya Harris tweeted a throwback montage with sepia tone images of their mom. (15 words)
There’s a real sense of fun here, once you’ve worked it all out, and we’re sure some Mini fans will love how the screen turns retro in Timeless mode, complete with sepia-toned dials and a vintage font. (41 words)
But Roger Deakins did pioneering work on the Coens’, transferring the whole film to a “digital intermediate” to process and change the colours of the movie to give it a sepia tone. (32 words)
Puffy, low-hanging clouds pack the pale blue sky and frame a sepia landscape, where a vintage sports car barrels down a long, flat, barren country road toward a seemingly abandoned farmhouse. (32 words)
But the real reason I’m posting this picture (Linda actually wanted it in Sepia mode even though I wanted it in colour) is to hail my Day1! (28 words)
Example sentences (20)
Behren’s silverspot caterpillars form a tough sepia pupa, drawing leaves around themselves with silk.
Sepia-tinted autograph hunting from the Saudis is of no real-world consequence.
Sepia, which opened in 2007 in the West Loop, was among five nominees for Outstanding Hospitality.
The noise was as chaotic as the spectacle - an array of colours turned sepia from the fine dust raised by the thousands of legs trampling the earth.
There’s a real sense of fun here, once you’ve worked it all out, and we’re sure some Mini fans will love how the screen turns retro in Timeless mode, complete with sepia-toned dials and a vintage font.
Andrea Traphagan, of Ravendale, won Third Place and $100 for this sepia-tone image of her husband inspecting test plantings of grain.
And this quiz tests the knowledge of even the most well-travelled geography buffs, with a challenge to pick the city where old sepia photographs were taken.
But Roger Deakins did pioneering work on the Coens’, transferring the whole film to a “digital intermediate” to process and change the colours of the movie to give it a sepia tone.
Harris’ sister Maya Harris tweeted a throwback montage with sepia tone images of their mom.
He would say, “It’s far more exciting for me as a painter, to work in grey or sepia.
It is nostalgic, chintzy and revels in tweeness – even the back-screen video projections by Luke Halls are sepia-tinted.
Lynn’s languid, ruminative approach remains as she croons in a lovely, unhurried, sepia-toned noir style, not far removed from Cowboy Junkies’ Margo Timmins.
Enantiornithines may no longer be with us, but this amber fossil has provided a sepia-toned snapshot of their lives and their world.
McDermott International has confirmed the award from Petrobras of a contract covering subsea elements of the first phase of the Sepia development in the pre-salt Santos basin off Brazil.
There’s a particular kind of yellowish film that coats the walls and windows of an old garage; it’s like stepping into a sepia-tone photograph.
The river painted in sepia tone, flows from the top left of the canvas, descends to the right bottom, dividing the space diagonally.
You can see your great-great-grandparents’ handwriting in sepia ink on this ancient Bible.
But the real reason I’m posting this picture (Linda actually wanted it in Sepia mode even though I wanted it in colour) is to hail my Day1!
Chijioke Akukaria “m”, 24yrs and Ezechukwu Eze aka “Sepia” “m” 35yrs from Umuabia Mgbidi, who was about fleeing the country and is the kingpin and armoury of the group.
Puffy, low-hanging clouds pack the pale blue sky and frame a sepia landscape, where a vintage sports car barrels down a long, flat, barren country road toward a seemingly abandoned farmhouse.
Common combinations with sepia
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- in sepia 6×
- sepia tone 4×
- sepia which 3×