Sample Sentences for
auburn
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auburn as in:  auburn hair

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    Rochelle had silky auburn hair, and she wore glasses like Margot did.  (source)
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    She had a sharp nose, beady, suspicious eyes, and a wild fountain of curly auburn hair.  (source)
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    On the right was a beautiful woman with curly auburn hair.  (source)
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    Queen Georgina raised an auburn eyebrow.  (source)
    auburn = reddish-brown
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    The man standing behind her is stout and florid, with shaggy auburn hair.  (source)
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    This younger Albus Dumbledore's long hair and beard were auburn.  (source)
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    Her real hair turns out to be a nice auburn.  (source)
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    Auburn hair fell in silken ringlets to her waist and her unblemished ivory skin shimmered like mother-of-pearl in the sunshine.  (source)
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    His hair was dark like his half sister's, but her hair reflected the light in flashes of gold and auburn; his was black like charcoal.  (source)
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    Stuart Thistleback had auburn hair and played the stand-up bass, and we were totally in love, but he lived in Chattanooga and we didn't have our driver's licenses yet.  (source)
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    Bees are silver; pigeons are ginger and auburn and occasionally golden.  (source)
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    Sansa had gotten their mother's fine high cheekbones and the thick auburn hair of the Tullys.  (source)
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    She laughed as she talked to someone, brushing back her long, auburn hair with a sweep of one hand.  (source)
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meaning too common or too rare to warrant focus

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    The other boys attended the industrial school and received the best secondary education to be had in the state; one of them eventually worked his way through engineering school at Auburn.  (source)
    Auburn = name of a school
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    In Auburn, the Loveliest Village on the Plain, I watched Bo Jackson run over pretty much everybody.  (source)
    Auburn = a proper noun
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    He'd found it there when George had said Charlie could wear an Auburn University T-shirt someone had given him.  (source)
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    Equipment was then on its way from Lewis-ton, Auburn, Lisbon, and Brunswick, but nothing arrived until one o'clock.  (source)
    Auburn = a proper noun
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    Him and me was both born in Auburn.  (source)
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    The district attorney ordered them to Auburn for questioning.  (source)
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    I was really looking forward to the game in Auburn.  (source)
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    The trip was without incident until we changed buses at Auburn.  (source)
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    I like the area just north of there in the Sierra foothills, so I begin looking at houses in Auburn, a gold-rush town with a rustic, old-fashioned downtown.  (source)
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    I was reading the News and Courier on the Thursday morning before our first basketball game with Auburn.  (source)
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    Stutz was second team All-American from Auburn last year and I need not tell you who Strohmyer is, I'm sure.  (source)
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    The joke was that Auburn had only three plays: Bo left, Bo right, and Bo up the middle.  (source)
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    At dawn a taxi is called to ferry them through deserted Cambridge streets, up Massachusetts Avenue and past Harvard Yard, to Mount Auburn Hospital.  (source)
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