How To Use Colorless In A Sentence

At atmospheric temperatures, ozone is a colorless gas with an odor similar to chlorine that can usually be detected at a level of about 0.01 parts per million.
The key ingredient is the physical block zinc oxide, which has been micronized to create a colorless and lightweight lotion that feels natural and nongreasy.
His skin was, sure enough, pale and colorless.
With rather thin lips and colorless cheeks, he bore the distinguished face of an ailing man.
The mixture was stirred until the solutions turned colorless.

I like the unripe, slightly salty melon of Vanille Galante, the cold lily note, the almost non-existence of vanilla, the pure, calm water in which the ingredients serenely flow, the pastel colorlessness of it all. Vanille Galante by Hermes: Perfume Review
His cheeks were colorless and the sweat trickled from his brow.
Carbon monoxide (CO) is a colorless, odorless, poisonous gas.
The drink which connects Black Russian, Screwdriver, Salty Dog and Bloody Mary is the colorless, savourless but strong vodka.
Her skin was incredibly pale, almost colorless, and her eyes were dull.
Hydrogen bromide is a colorless, corrosive, nonflammable gas with a sharp, unpleasant, pungent odor. Those computer models…
The calcite typically occurs as colorless to white discoidal crystals about 4 cm across; however, individual crystals to 30 cm are known.
I knew that when he said that my face went more colorless than it already is except for red across my cheeks.
In a gap between eastern peaks a colorless luminosity of the sky heralded moonrise. THE DISPOSSESSED
Known for his acerbic wit, sharp tongue, and occasional profanity, he stood out among the colorless bureaucrats who ruled Poland.
It is odorless, colorless, tasteless, does not cause cancer, does not cause asthma. Victor Stenger: Global Warming and Religion
Some time later, standing by the side of the road, confused, he hitched a ride in a battered, colorless pickup. DEAD LINES
Did this man whose entire life has been spent as an office worker in dull and colorless businesses in rural Pennsylvania just suddenly have a Walter Mitty fantasy that happened to come true?
After 6.57 hours the colorless solution assumes the pale yellow-green color of chlorine, which indicates that the end point of the reaction has been reached.
Because carbon monoxide is colorless, tasteless, odorless and nonirritating, it can overcome the exposed person without warning.
Radon is a colorless, odorless, radioactive gas.
Colorless gypsum and white pickeringite-halotrichite are the most common efflorescences found on shale.
Morphine is an amphoteric pentacyclic alkaloid that exists naturally in its levorotatory form as columnar colorless prisms.
Worse, his singing continues to be monotonously loud and colorless, without a trace of grace, style, or musical shape.
Here colorless to yellow crusts of mimetite coat open spaces and coarse fragments in brecciated dacite.
Mercury can evaporate and become a colorless, odorless vapor.
A unique Lebanese alcoholic creation is arak, a colorless, 100-percent-alcohol beverage flavored with anise.
Observe that it is colorless and either transparent or translucent, and when poured from one vessel to another is glairy and more or less adhesive. A Practical Physiology
Pale, almost colorless eyes looked out from under thin brows.
The encounter smudged into the same colorlessness of every other colorless moment in the colorless flow of time on the bridge.
Ethene is a colorless gas that can be collected from natural gas and crude oil.
Some other liquids may be clear and colorless, but water is unique!
It is bleached on the side at which hydrogen gas is evolved in consequence of the liberated hydrogen withdrawing oxygen from the indigo, thereby forming a colorless deoxidized indigo. The Forces of Matter, Delivered before a Juvenile Auditory at the Royal Institution of Great Britain during the Christmas Holidays of 1859-60
Ray was a man of middle age, height, and weight, his body constructed squarely and his hair close-cropped and colorless. GRACED LAND
Other minerals associated with the orpiment crystals are white to colorless barite crystals, lemon-yellow crystalline masses of sulfur, and minor realgar.
He (a stranger, a colorless administrator, neutral features, crewcut) is explaining something about the collections. The Times Literary Supplement
At intermission, I overheard a listener complain about an emotional colorlessness despite the piece's exciting surface. Allan M. Jalon: Arts Lust: Jonathan Biss Beats the CRIS
Baggy, shapeless, colorless, they were as unprepossessing as a shroud. Raziel
The authentic hologram is three-dimensional when rotated; the fakes are flat and colorless. More than $300,000 worth of counterfeit goods seized
Completely harmless to the skin, sunless tanners contain dihydroxyacetone, a colorless sugar that stains the skin.
Big black patches had settled under my eyes, and my lips and cheeks were horribly colorless.
Colorless crystals tend to be more tabular with modifications by the dipyramids and other forms.
Her entire report was delivered colorlessly, without any shade of emotion.
Phosphine, generated from aluminum phosphide and water, is a highly toxic, colorless gas with a fishy or garlic-like odor.
The tinny rattle of die aluminum top was no tinnier than my voice as I said, "Yes, sir," because I knew what little bottles of colorless fluid could reasonably be assumed to contain. The Space Merchants
It is filled with a colorless tissue, the prothallium, and if mature, with care it is possible to see, even with a hand lens, two or more denser oval bodies (_ar. _), the egg cells of the archegonia, which here are very large. Elements of Structural and Systematic Botany For High Schools and Elementary College Courses
ARDEN: No. Actually, arsenic is colorless, and odorless, and tasteless, which is one good thing, if you ` re trying to poison someone. CNN Transcript Jan 4, 2006
But half of what one saw was old work by established artists or colorless rehashes of 1980s images.
Tabitha, who once could have been the toast of the town, was looking drawn and colorless.
The papule becomes pustular and ulcerates, producing an ulcer crater with colorless exudate.
Big black patches had settled under my eyes, and my lips and cheeks were horribly colorless.
Scolecite is typically seen as a colorless to white, transparent to translucent mineral with a vitreous to silky luster.
Tabitha, who once could have been the toast of the town, was looking drawn and colorless.
Chemically, nitrous oxide is a colorless gas with a slightly sweet odor and no appreciable taste at normal ambient temperature and pressure.
She knew that without Davie her world would be colorless and dull.
It is constructed well enough but moves ponderously and colorlessly to its conclusion.
It is miscible with all commonly used cosmetic oils, is easily emulsified within aqueous formulations, is colorless and can be obtained ‘odor-free.’
a colorless negative personality
Some other liquids may be clear and colorless, but water is unique!
When it leaves the still, tequila, like most spirits, is colorless.
The rare gases are all colorless, odorless, and tasteless.
At this period it is colorless, and clear as water; its taste is slightly saccharine; its odor resembles that of whey; it reddens turnsole paper. Resources of the Southern Fields and Forests, Medical, Economical, and Agricultural. Being also a Medical Botany of the Confederate States; with Practical Information on the Useful Properties of the Trees, Plants, and Shrubs
Mexican plant used especially for making pulque the source of the colorless Mexican liquor mescal.
When we dissect a leaf in its primal development, we find that its cells contain colorless globules, by botanists called chlorophyl or phyto-color; these undergo changes according as they are acted upon by light, oxygen, or other agents, producing green, yellow, red, and other tints. Scientific American, Volume XLIII., No. 25, December 18, 1880 A Weekly Journal of Practical Information, Art, Science, Mechanics, Chemistry, and Manufactures.
Colorless or pale reddish or yellowish-brown specimens with an earthy to moderately vitreous luster are most commonly observed.
Under a colorless sky stained with clouds, ten sylphs dance in a ring.
White (sometimes called decolorized, colorless or yodo blanco) iodine is what to use. Hints From Heloise
It was pale to medium green and associated with yellow pharmacosiderite and colorless to white gypsum.
Her skin hung off her face in limp saggy folds, colorless and gray, like wet cement.
Because carbon dioxide is colorless, odorless and disperses immediately into the air, few realize how much spills out of tailpipes and smokestacks.
I'm dropped through every sky I blow across, chuted, colorless and empty rolling off the greenest grassblades! Against the V
With rather thin lips and colorless cheeks, he bore the distinguished face of an ailing man.
This colorless, solid cream works to temporarily fill in lines and large pores, and leaves a soft, opalescent finish that feels very silky.
At the cliff Mitchell hung a towel on a sea-grape branch and scaled barefoot down the rocks to the colorless water.
Albert Campion, too, was tall and fair, but he was overthin and the careful veil of affable vacuity which had begun, like his large spectacles, as a protection and had become a second skin, had robbed him of good looks, whereas Morty’s thick light-brown hair had a wave in it and there was nothing bleak or colorless about his gray eyes. Cargo of Eagles
Life without restriction is, colorless, jaded, and uninspired.
At standard temperature and pressure it is a colorless, oily liquid with an unpleasant odor that turns brown due to slow oxidation by air.
This colorless face expressed patience, commercial shrewdness, and the sort of wily cupidity which is needful in business. At the Sign of the Cat and Racket
In other higher plants, such as apples and pears, mainly colorless, nonfluorescent chlorophyll decomposition products are found. PhysOrg.com - latest science and technology news stories
A colorless dibasic acid of slight solubility, found in human and animal urine. Alcohol and The Addictive Brain
Pale, colorless hair poked out from between the bandages that covered his head, and his eyes were a bloodshot yellow.
Throughout the years of maturation, the whisky, which coming out of the still is a colorless spirit, gradually becomes more complex.
Beryl looks frightened, her face drawn and colorless.
The spiderwort was a rich blue with its two large petals rounded, while the third one was tiny and colorless. Girl Scouts in the Adirondacks
Scolecite is typically seen as a colorless to white, transparent to translucent mineral with a vitreous to silky luster.
Ethene is a colorless gas that can be collected from natural gas and crude oil.
The datholite, as in other localities, consists of groups of small colorless crystals. Scientific American Supplement, No. 363, December 16, 1882
At room temperature, formaldehyde is an extremely reactive colorless gas with a suffocating odor.
He may be thinking about adopting Washington, a city stultified by decades of colorless, inoffensive architecture. Profile of Vancouver architect Bing Thom
Furfural - also called furfuraldehyde, fural, 2-furaldehyde, pyromucic aldehyde, or 2-furancarboxaldehyde - is a viscous, colorless liquid with a freezing point of - 37.6°F and a boiling point of 323°F.
Not only is it colorlessly written but it ignores much fascinating material.
I'm dropped through every sky I blow across, chuted, colorless and empty rolling off the greenest of grassblades! Safety First (Twenty Poems)
Under a colorless sky stained with clouds, ten sylphs dance in a ring.
The three girlfriends are chiefly excuses for Bobby's shilly-shallying, so we get glaring patches of clashing color revolving around a colorless blob.
When Sean Hayes, from Will & Grace, made his Broadway debut in Promises, Promises playing a heterosexual man, the New York Times theater review included these lines: "his emotions often seem pale to the point of colorlessness ... his relationship with [his costar Kristin] Chenoweth feels more like that of a younger brother than a would-be lover and protector. Out Of Focus
The reason of this appears to be that a part of the manganese is first precipitated as hydrated sesquioxide, which is afterward oxidized to hydrated peroxide, for the upper portion of the liquid may sometimes be colored by chameleon, while the lower portion, which is in closer contact with the precipitate, is less colored or absolutely colorless. Scientific American Supplement, No. 324, March 18, 1882
At PNB thus far, only a few interpreters of the key pantomime roles—Giselle's mother, Berthe; Albrecht's noble fiancée, Bathilde; and Giselle's hopeful suitor, Hilarion—rendered their mimologues with grace and inflection of gesture; the rest looked rote and colorless. From the Northwest Emerges a New 'Giselle'
Phosphine, generated from aluminum phosphide and water, is a highly toxic, colorless gas with a fishy or garlic-like odor.
Colorless quartz crystals lining geodes have also been found at approximately 300 feet below the trail at the South Overlook locality.
The antheridia (Fig. 29, _E_) are hemispherical masses of closely set colorless cells, each of which develops a single spermatozoid which, like the tetraspores, is destitute of cilia, and is dependent upon the movement of the water to convey it to the neighborhood of the procarp. Elements of Structural and Systematic Botany For High Schools and Elementary College Courses
Sarin is a clear, colorless, and tasteless liquid that has no odor in its pure form.
Pale, almost colorless eyes looked out from under thin brows.
At normal room temperatures and pressures ammonia exists as a colorless gas that is lighter than air and has a characteristic pungent odor.
Abundant pale pinkish-reddish to purple to colorless fluorite occurs as granular to monocrystalline masses and rarely as small simple cubes.
The world seemed dull and colorless, and gray as Paula's despairing heart.
This tetratomic vapor condenses to liquid white phosphorus which freezes at 44.1°C to solid white phosphorus, a soft, waxy, colorless material.
When I placed the sandwich and salad before her, she looked up at me and gave a weak smile; I noticed how colorless her lips were and how gray her hair was becoming.
Her mind was still hazy and the heavy scent of the colorless liquid wasn't helping her head much.
I knew that when he said that my face went more colorless than it already is except for red across my cheeks.
Her skin hung off her face in limp saggy folds, colorless and gray, like wet cement.
Benzene is a colorless and highly flammable liquid hydrocarbon derived from petroleum.
Mercury can evaporate and become a colorless, odorless vapor.
He pushed back the hood and the early morning sun highlighted a craggy, chiseled face with almost colorless blue eyes.
The common glycols are colorless liquids with specific gravities greater than that of water.
His face was nearly colorless, his skin pale and waxen.
Coquelin did some excellent French monologues — one of them an ungrammatical Englishman telling a colorless historiette in French. Mark Twain: A Biography
If the wine is examined according to the Falieres-Ritter method in presence of magenta, ether, when shaken up with the wine, previously rendered ammoniacal, remains colorless, while if archil or cudbear is present the ether is colored red. Scientific American Supplement, No. 385, May 19, 1883
Colorless and transparent as well as white scalenohedra of a first generation are rarely overgrown by a second-generation rhombohedron and are twinned on { 0001 }.
A tear slipped down Michael's colorless cheek, and he was grateful that Justin suddenly became fascinated with the view so he could wipe it away undetected.
Did this man whose entire life has been spent as an office worker in dull and colorless businesses in rural Pennsylvania just suddenly have a Walter Mitty fantasy that happened to come true?
At standard temperature and pressure, ethyne is a colorless gas with a pleasant smell.
Partridge was astonished to see the heavy man's colorless eyes enlarged with tears. THE SHIPPING NEWS
Although very beautiful, most Indian apophyllite is colorless.
Both minerals form beautiful colorless crystals, though celestite is sometimes colored a faint blue. An Elementary Study of Chemistry
It looked like an angel, except for one thing: where the eyes of angels are blank and colorless like ice, the eyes of demons burn red, like ruby cabochons.
Radon condenses to a clear, colorless liquid at its boiling point and then freezes to form a yellow, then orangish red solid.
Breathing life into time periods that were painted colorlessly in history books was an art I wanted to recreate.
Some time later, standing by the side of the road, confused, he hitched a ride in a battered, colorless pickup. DEAD LINES
Her skin was incredibly pale, almost colorless, and her eyes were dull.
His face, blank and colorless, was detailed only by the dark shadows beneath his eyes and the nest of light brown hair atop his head.
The world seemed dull and colorless, and gray as Paula's despairing heart.
The cartridges contain dried extract of horseshoe crab blood cells (LAL / Limulus amebocyte lysate) and colorless dye. SpaceRef - Calendar of Events
a colorless description of the parade
His colorless mediocrity exemplifies why I lost interest in the team.
Because carbon dioxide is colorless, odorless and disperses immediately into the air, few realize how much spills out of tailpipes and smokestacks.
Some time later, standing by the side of the road, confused, he hitched a ride in a battered, colorless pickup. DEAD LINES
She had come to him, after all, an unfinished thing, a child bride, almost colorless except for her red bindi and her hennaed hands.
The Centers for Disease Control defines chloroform as a “colorless liquid with a pleasant, nonirritating odor” that was “used as an inhaled anesthetic during surgery.” Chloroform and Caylee
I am afraid the climax is still suffering from Vague Psychic Battle Syndrome, and the whole thing feels kind of flaccid and colorless right now, but it's written and that's what matters. Best. holiday. icon. evar.
At atmospheric temperatures, ozone is a colorless gas with an odor similar to chlorine that can usually be detected at a level of about 0.01 parts per million.
It occurred as trapezohedral milky-white microcrystals in small vugs and as clear, colorless, glassy masses up to 1 cm in size.
The sporangia, or more exactly the conidia, are composed of unilocular vesicles, perfectly colorless and transparent, which generally rise from one or both sides of the filaments of the mycelium, beginning as from little buds or eyes; very often several (two to three) sporangia occur placed one upon the other, at least on one side of the mycelium. Scientific American Supplement, No. 385, May 19, 1883
It looked very wrong amidst the bright blue river and lush green banks, a sudden shock of colorlessness. Every little thing in the world
Carbon monoxide is a colorless, odorless gas that can poison you if you breathe too much of it.
a good agent for chemical terrorism should be colorless and odorless and inexpensive and readily available and not detectable until symptoms are experienced
CO is odorless and colorless, and it can kill you and your family in minutes. Your risk of injury rises after the hurricane
The leaves, depart from the tree, are colorless without inanimation.
The rare gases are all colorless, odorless, and tasteless.
Beyond that, her soprano is strangely colorless, and her projection of the text flat and matter-of-fact.
Meanwhile, the White House press corps is left with someone who is hard to caricature as anything other than colorless. The oversimplified coverage of 'tough-talking' Rahm Emanuel
Official meeting pronouncements offer little more than colorless boilerplate.
It occurred in weathered material with colorless transparent cassiterite, which is thought to have been derived from the oxidation of stannite.
The resulting kernel pigmentation phenotype consists of colorless pericarp with red sectors.
Pure halite is colorless, though it is often colored by impurities. Halite
Mendelizing characters which assume multiple allelomorphic conditions. 2 Pearson has steadfastly refused to admit that albinism in man is a Mendelizing character, because it may assume various forms ranging from colorless to quite heavily pigmented conditions (blondes). The Journal of Abnormal Psychology
Kurkdjian's sumptuous touch shows through the apparent purity of the fragrance, which makes its transparency warm and its colorlessness interesting. Kenzo Eau de Fleur Magnolia: Perfume Review
Bromthymol blue changes from yellow at pH 4 to blue around pH 7, and phenolphthalein changes from colorless at pH 7 to pink at pH 9.
His face was white and colorless.
A couple of seasons of too much talk, too many colorless characters, and not enough action have left the show in limbo.
The cutter must orient the rough carefully, taking iolite's trichroism of blue, gray and near colorless into account.
When freshly collected, laumontite is colorless and quite hard; however, once dry, it crumbles and becomes friable and white.
Across the road from the embankment electric lights shone on melons and other fruit in stalls: a refreshing night scene, after the glare and colorlessness of the day. Among the Believers
She knew that without Davie her world would be colorless and dull.
One of the latter divides next into an upper and a lower cell, the former growing out into a long, colorless appendage known as a trichogyne (Fig. 29, _D_, _tr. Elements of Structural and Systematic Botany For High Schools and Elementary College Courses
She did as she was told and trotted off into the kitchen and she looked around for a glass bottle containing a colorless liquid.
Both were a deep green color that caused the grey of his eyes to appear pale and colorless in comparison.
Methane is a nonpoisonous, tasteless, odorless and colorless gas. It is also known as marsh gas (CH4) and, when mixed with air, it forms fire-damp.
His face was nearly colorless, his skin pale and waxen.
Pale, colorless hair poked out from between the bandages that covered his head, and his eyes were a bloodshot yellow.
Both were a deep green color that caused the grey of his eyes to appear pale and colorless in comparison.
Worse, his singing continues to be monotonously loud and colorless, without a trace of grace, style, or musical shape.
a colorless person quite indistinguishable from the colorless mass of humanity
Colorless botryoidal smithsonite specimens have been collected at the Tui mine, New Zealand.
They may scarcely realize that the ruby and the sapphire are the same mineral, and that this mineral also occurs, and is used in jewelry, absolutely colorless, when it is known as lux sapphire, green as the so-called Scientific American Supplement, No. 1082, September 26, 1896
Powdered GHB is colorless and odorless but has a salty taste that is often masked by mixing it in fruit punches.
The doctor put a small vial with a colorless liquid onto an injector and placed the nozzle against her upper arm.
Afghanite occurs as small, typically colorless transparent crystals associated with a wide variety of feldspathoids in volcanic ejecta collected in the general Mount Vesuvius area, Italy.
A plagioclase feldspar, albite probably, occurs as parallel growths of transparent colorless to yellowish crystals.
Coconut oil is a colorless to pale brownish yellow oil with a melting point starting at 26 § C.
He had tiny, tiny little eyes, and pale colorless and limp hair, that was badly in need of a cutting.
PCBs are colorless and odorless chemicals that were widely used in electrical equipment such as transformers and capacitors before 1977.
Thick, curling eyelashes shaded her lowered eyes, standing against dark yet colorless cheeks.
His face was nearly colorless, his skin pale and waxen.
He shrewdly defends her prose against the charge of dryness, calling it "as colorless, as odorless, as tasteless, and as intoxicating as vodka."
Sarin is a clear, colorless, and tasteless liquid that has no odor in its pure form.
Radon is a colorless, odorless, radioactive gas.
The Tower of Babylon rose through the veil of transplanted jungle foliage and piped-in orchid scent to scrape a desert sky burned almost colorless by the Nevada sun. Splendid isolation, i don't need no-one
Beyond that, her soprano is strangely colorless, and her projection of the text flat and matter-of-fact.
He was in a deeply emotional state, for all the colorlessness of his voice. GALILEE
I have visions of turning into a spectral gray, a mass of colorlessness, a vanguard of lost youth, haunted and hovering over the living with warnings of doing all that you can now. Countdown
In the case of the "pure-for-analysis" sulphide, which is the recrystallized variety, the salt will be pure white and will form a quite colorless and clear solution in water. Bromide Printing and Enlarging A Practical Guide to the Making of Bromide Prints by Contact and Bromide Enlarging by Daylight and Artificial Light, With the Toning of Bromide Prints and Enlargements
I bought a few unusual oilbars from traditional paint-makers for them to use: an iridescent, pearlescent color, silver, gold and colorless blenders.
Glycerin is a thick sweet colorless liquid.
Mademoiselle de La Bastie was inclined to coquet with your Melchior, and was only too ready to become your rival, though her arms are thin, and she has no more bust than most girls; moreover, her hair is as dead and colorless as that of Modeste Mignon
They are inert, high-purity powders with no caloric value and are virtually colorless, odorless and tasteless in food formulations.
This colorless, solid cream works to temporarily fill in lines and large pores, and leaves a soft, opalescent finish that feels very silky.
Radon condenses to a clear, colorless liquid at its boiling point and then freezes to form a yellow, then orangish red solid.
Scolecite is typically seen as a colorless to white, transparent to translucent mineral with a vitreous to silky luster.
His colorless mediocrity exemplifies why I lost interest in the team.
Carbon monoxide injuries and deaths occur when levels of the tasteless, odorless and colorless gas build up in poorly ventilated spaces where a carbon-based fuel is burned.

How To Use Colorless In A Sentence

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