two-tone

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Recent Examples of two-tone The restoration project included returning the car to a two-tone color scheme—with a full repaint in elegant midnight blue and gray—and giving the vehicle a complete mechanical rebuild. Howard Walker, Robb Report, 24 Feb. 2025 Still made from the same undyed, oatmeal-hued canvas, the slimmer Boat and Tote retains its two-tone design (straps and bottom panels were originally available in either red or blue) and handles that can be slung over a shoulder. Kin Woo, New York Times, 20 Feb. 2025 With 986 horsepower, advanced aerodynamics and a two-tone Nero DS and Bianco Avus exterior, this nearly new example—showing just 290 miles—boasts more than $148,000 in options. Josh Hammer, Newsweek, 14 Feb. 2025 The foundation of this design is a two-tone purple digital storm pattern. Kyle Foley, Orlando Sentinel, 12 Feb. 2025 See All Example Sentences for two-tone
Recent Examples of Synonyms for two-tone
Adjective
  • Available in a two-toned color scheme in five vibrant shades—complete with an optional matching stylus—the Laptop 12 features a substantial design with shock-absorbing materials.
    Brian Westover, PCMAG, 25 Feb. 2025
  • His two-toned Rolls Royce also can be viewed here in this homage to one of the blues’ greatest impresarios.
    gqlshare, Orange County Register, 19 Feb. 2025
Adjective
  • In Caroline Absher’s colossal, mostly-dichromatic self-portrait Studio, the artist looks down at the viewer, who crouches or sits beneath her.
    Dallas News, Dallas News, 6 May 2022
  • Álvaro's subjects were 32 trichromats (a mix of men and women) and 32 dichromatic men (a mix of the green-lacking and red-lacking subtypes).
    Elizabeth Preston, Discover Magazine, 15 July 2015
Adjective
  • The honeycomb court and the tricolor purple-teal-gray scheme are smooth on the eyes.
    Steven Louis Goldstein, The Athletic, 20 Jan. 2025
  • Cricket is widely followed in Afghanistan, and the country’s national team – whose emblem still displays the tricolor flag of the government ousted by the Taliban – has been a source of national pride for many, even though the Taliban has barred women from playing cricket.
    Joseph Ataman, CNN, 13 Oct. 2024
Adjective
  • But their gray world is rich in attributes that might otherwise pale in our trichromatic, million-color world.
    Kanya Kanchana, Longreads, 15 Oct. 2024
  • Helmholtz’s theory was that our vision was trichromatic, based on three fundamental colors: red, green, and blue, which can be combined to make any other color.
    The Lost Women of Science Initiative, Scientific American, 30 Nov. 2023
Adjective
  • On Escobedo’s new façade, a vertically striated shell of rough limestone wraps four levels of galleries, and the ribs and channels recall the elaborate reliefs carved in those Mayan blocks of rock.
    Justin Davidson, Curbed, 10 Dec. 2024
  • Some of the best swimming spots are on the north side of the island, including the long surf beach at Famara, overlooked by a striated ridge, and the Caletón Blanco lagoon, which has echoes of Iceland's Blue Lagoon.
    Toby Skinner, Condé Nast Traveler, 15 Nov. 2024
Adjective
  • Plyometric Making a banded row plyometric is challenging (especially when it’s attached to the doorframe of someone else’s home).
    Alyssa Ages, Outside Online, 20 Dec. 2024
  • The banded duckbill was collected from a coarse-sandy bottom where starfish were scuttling along the seafloor, researchers said.
    Irene Wright, Miami Herald, 2 Jan. 2025
Adjective
  • Its bicolored glasses were made from Sapphire and Mozambique baguette Ruby while its own earring was fashioned from a yellow diamond.
    Stephanie Hirschmiller, Forbes, 1 Aug. 2022
  • Its bicolored yellowy-orange and pink blooms have a moderate to strong fragrance.
    Rita Perwich, San Diego Union-Tribune, 5 Dec. 2020
Adjective
  • The dashboard is swathed in a flecked, mélange-style fabric that is based on a traditional Japanese hand-weaving technique called Nishijin-ori.
    Mara Balagtas McIlwrath, Car and Driver, 1 June 2023
  • The melton coat sits over a flecked tweed suit—contrasting the matte outerwear with mottled textures beneath.
    Aleks Cvetkovic, Robb Report, 21 Jan. 2023

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“Two-tone.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/two-tone. Accessed 12 Mar. 2025.

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