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- verb Simple past tense and past participle of
orange .
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Examples
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We'd sit on our asses in people's gardens and eat plump ripe tomatoes pinched directly from the vine with that fresh raw, earthen tomato smell surrounding us in the left-over summer heat, while a full moon rose, slightly oranged, above the waters ofLake Michigan, asking its silent questions of man: Who are you, little ones?
Puppy Love 2009
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Well, at one stop, an oranged-hair snowbird gets up to get off the bus.
Archive 2008-06-01 Matthew Buckley 2008
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Well, at one stop, an oranged-hair snowbird gets up to get off the bus.
Cranky Old Freaks... Matthew Buckley 2008
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UPDATE: Using pure nerve, Nina finds her way to the press box and gets some great shots, including this closeup of Jeanne-Claude (her hair newly oranged), Christo (not orange, grizzled), and Mayor Bloomberg.
"Now that the 'frames' have the added fabric, they have become curvy and flirtatious." Ann Althouse 2005
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And his big Irish gourd, the shiny scalp oranged with freckles, now scored with pink treatment scars.
The Town Chuck Hogan 2004
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Then, satisfied that the scope was correctly adjusted and that a round was chambered and the rifle ready to go, I forced myself to relax while the eastern sky oranged and reddened and yellowed.
ONE SHOT-ONE KILL CHARLES W. SASSER CRAIG ROBERTS 1990
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Even saints delicately oranged prefer to be wooed differently.
Cabbages and Kings 1904
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Too much punch was drunk, iced, which is a deadly thing, and worse still when the foundation is laid in oranged tea!
The Reckoning 1899
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Even saints delicately oranged prefer to be wooed differently.
Cabbages and Kings O. Henry 1886
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Thence to where they stood lay a wondrous panorama, an ascent of fields of gilded snow, oranged by the sun, or else of a deep, cold blue,
Tartarin On The Alps Alphonse Daudet 1868
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