How To Use Colour In A Sentence

Using a bold colour such as yellow is risky. Times, Sunday Times
For the stock, start by sweating all the vegetables and herbs in a little extra-virgin olive oil, seasoning with salt at the start to help them sweat without colouring.
Mix up pots of poster paint, and give your children a pot of paint in each colour, a couple of brushes and a glass of water.
Deep navy, in contrast, is less demanding, and leaves a bit more colour in a blonde's cheeks.
There wasn't a lot of information there; I had to expand on it, invent the colour scheme.

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The colour is a focal point on one wall and adds a bit of personality. Times, Sunday Times
Horatia was still in mourning for her mother, and wore a black skirt, but Lucilla's was of rich deep gentianella-coloured silk, and the buttons of her white vest were of beautiful coral. Hopes and Fears or, scenes from the life of a spinster
The building is dark brick topped by pinky-coloured concrete block walls, white plastic-looking fascia board, black plastic guttering and an artificial slate roof.
It's all slouchy, casual clothes in light and bright colours. Times, Sunday Times
Strange flashes of varicoloured, rainbow light began to appear and disappear on the path before me.
They take up little space and give a real boost to summer and autumn colour. Times, Sunday Times
Before one embarks on this high flying experience, the organisers supply a crash helmet, and a safety waist belt which is securely tied with a long and strong rope to the huge multi-coloured parasail.
Cayenne pepper, which easily loses its red colour, was tinted with cinnabar, an extremely poisonous mercury compound.
Their skin colour, sexuality or hair hue is irrelevant.
Pick one meal a day from each colour-coded section. The Sun
I boxed, swam, sailed, rode horses, lived in the open an arrantly healthful life, and passed life insurance examinations with flying colours. Chapter 29
An unusual colour for me, since my dad had brown eyes and my mum had greeny blue.
It is also shifting plenty of feminine, lacy lingerie, in the kind of bright colours that go well with a sun tan.
He was asleep on the window, looking angelic as the moonlight shone in, making his skin a smooth pale lucid colour.
Forming the pivot of the exhibition is a large group of watercolours.
There was a convoluted tangle of coloured threads around you, some of which seemed to be paths.
Wielding his blade like a master painter, his palette holds only one colour, and that is crimson.
All the accommodation is decorated in as minimalist fashion as luxury will allow, reflecting the vibrant colours of the region, from warm terracotta to the cool turquoise of the sea.
The sea was its usual calm blue, a glassy liquid surface stretching till it fused with the horizon in a spectacle of colour.
On fair skin, pale shades are delicate enough not to overpower your colouring.
Those who had struck it rich wore black woollen trousers and Napoleon boots, and sported silk sashes and gaily coloured kerchiefs.
All yellowhammers have striking, rusty-coloured, unstreaked rumps which are most attractive.
He had chasubles, also, of amber-coloured silk, and blue silk and gold brocade, and yellow silk damask and cloth of gold, figured with representations of the Passion and Crucifixion of Christ, and embroidered with lions and peacocks and other emblems; dalmatics of white satin and pink silk damask, decorated with tulips and dolphins and fleurs-de-lis; altar frontals of crimson velvet and blue linen; and many corporals, chalice-veils, and sudaria. The Picture of Dorian Gray
Expertly based on simple, smooth, sculptural lines, exploring colour by layering and integrating silk and viscose, adding another textural element to her work.
The common basis of all gumbos is the roux, a roughly equal combination of flour and fat cooked until very nearly burnt; it is the dark smoky roux that gives the gumbo its colour and flavour.
This has a deep ruby colour and complex range of flavours. Thorsons Organic Wine Guide
Predators have been observed to avoid attacking brightly coloured species.
You should tone down the red colour in your painting.
No fuss, no frills and great colours. Times, Sunday Times
It's fun, quick and delivers an individual colour signature to each person. Times, Sunday Times
Even when the fountain was working properly it was frequently full of soap suds or discoloured because someone had put something into the water.
By the close their ranks have doubled into a colourful army stamping out percussive rhythms in wooden sandals. Times, Sunday Times
It may seem a paradox that the same colour should be at once so durable and so fugitive, but we may briefly explain it by saying _when vitreous pigments are reduced to that extreme state of division which the palette requires, they lose the properties they possess in a less finely divided state_. Field's Chromatography or Treatise on Colours and Pigments as Used by Artists
A watercolour by Thundersley-born artist Richard Sorrell has made the collection.
And the Bridal Show, for married women, seemed to do just that by focusing on the Indianess of contestants who were draped in variety of colourful sarees and mesmerizing gagra cholis that dazzled with every step.
These columbines have bell-shaped flowers, spurred petals, and self-coloured tepals.
It was purfled about the rim of the soundbox with trapezia of shimmering mother-of-pearl, and it had a black strikeplate in the shape of a clematis flower, inlaid with multicoloured blossoms that were purely the result of an exuberant craftsman's imagination. Captain Corelli's Mandolin
The look should be tough, not twinkly, so apply dark colours in a slapdash way. Times, Sunday Times
But the NFB gave me the opportunity to make new masters of all of my films, so I went in with a colourist to make them visually perfect.
Nature notes Autumn colours are now becoming more noticeable, though large swathes of the countryside are still quite green. Times, Sunday Times
Pisonia has large leaves and could be said to look similar to crotons except without the yellow and red colours.
The image is generally a thing of beauty with colours brightly and faithfully rendered.
Besides being the colour of pants worn during training and performing, red trousers symbolize the indentured servitude of children who were bound by contract and often forced to live and train at these schools.
It's still early in the morning; the air is cool and exhilarating, and the low sun softens the landscape and transfigures the dour colours of the hills.
I understand that there is a huge upswing in the sales of hair colourants, especially for the younger girls and boys.
Bottlenose dolphins appear uniform grey, but their colouring can be very variable.
It took a moment to acclimatize to the sudden light and to the brightness of violent colour; there was blood everywhere. CHAMELEON
Colour is a giddy delight. Times, Sunday Times
What they got very right is the colour: ochre. Times, Sunday Times
The book's 85 colour lithographic plates look staggeringly fresh and bold.
The crunch leaves of autumn had shrivelled and the sun was a lazy, dusky peach colour.
Inside, the walls were all plastered and painted pale colours with cream carpets - very novel for the early 1970s in Ireland.
Ask the average primary schooler here about their teacher and they'll give you a cascade of colourful answers.
This year the colourful event shirt features a clown and will be on sale in all sizes from the tiniest to the gigantesque.
Light-coloured clothes tend to show the dirt.
The colour of blue on the flag is ‘argent’ as described in heraldry.
No more fuzzy programmes with muffled sound and colours like confetti in a puddle. The Sun
That means pearly white skinless cod or haddock under a casing of crisp batter the colour of dark honey, served with golden chips. Times, Sunday Times
This change of colour serves them well unless they are still white when the snow melts. Times, Sunday Times
And as it was a non-uniform day, many took the opportunity to colour their hair in shades of green and red.
Chemical photography can capture many more subtleties and gradations of colour and shade than digital.
My eyes can discern ten million colours, it seems. Times, Sunday Times
The rules are so relaxed now that you can rest a player who is off-colour.
I could paint allegories, elegies and epic statements because the imagery was so strong and the colours of life were so rich.
One designated player is required to play cards from his hand matching the colours shown on the thrown dice.
Colour on every page means not only the opportunity for better photos, but also diagrams, infographics etc.
The structure is surprisingly complex, viewing the same events from different perspectives, which Zhang helpfully colour-codes in ravishing washes of primary tints.
If this were not so, everything would look flat, and then one could distinguish nothing save only a chequerwork of colours. Albert Durer
The 'disappearing ink' is not ink at all, but a temporary discolouration of light-sensitive molecules known as photochromes. Times, Sunday Times
It was hard to see the colours under the layer of dust.
For a colour injection, try blue, khaki and brown. Times, Sunday Times
The flame was glorious - radiant with the colours of antique knighthood and the flashing gallantries of the past; but no substance fed it; flaring wildly, it tossed to and fro in the wind; it was suddenly put out.
Colours Beyond Colours" opens with a Jamaican-sounding speaker ostensibly describing the supersensory effects of LSD, and then segueing into a cod-'60s-didactic announcement about the electromagnetic spectrum. PopMatters
The family show includes colourful costumes, lively characters, music, comedy and audience participation.
A number of photographs, in colour and black and white, show the various facets of the process in great detail.
Every splash of bright colour has gone back into a drawer not to be glimpsed again until next spring.
The subtle colour palette is another layer in the creation of a calm and relaxing area for catching up with work or with after party guests. The Hill House
Colourful wild flowers sprung up by the roadside, purple violets and white daisies dotted among the grass.
Archaeologists were excited to find lots of bronzes, ceramics, lacquerworks, wood tomb figures, steel weapons and leather weapons, jewelry and even coloured drawings.
The small head is solid gold in colour, with a happy, playful expression, wide square jaw and a red beard.
While streaming one video, the picture broke down after about a minute, and the voice track continued over an indecipherable kaleidoscope of colours.
The cap is a chestnut brown colour with a cream margin. Times, Sunday Times
When you take the colour from things it robs the world of its vitality and wonder, and leaves things drab and lifeless.
This deciduous vine is grown for its gorgeous autumn colour rather than its fruit. Times, Sunday Times
Luckily it had short sleeves, and she knew that the subtle shade of pale aquamarine suited her colouring.
Her masterful brush strokes and use of colour fired up many critics and curators and received immediate recognition.
A wide range of colours and patterns are available.
The abstract representations are also a reflection of the artist's mastery over colour and light.
Truth needs no colour; beauty, no pencil.
The genetic trawl will not be looking for physical characteristics, such as colouring or height, but at particular genes that were thought to be common in Vikings.
Negotiations, then, must not be unduly hurried while the veldt was a bare russet-coloured dust-swept plain. The War in South Africa Its Cause and Conduct
Everywhere I turned there were immense trees towering above me, rainbows of exotically coloured blooms, and thick dark carpets of creeping moss.
These are mind-boggling questions for a person of normal prudence because in science, colour is simply light of different wavelength.
I identified the frightful ingredients masking the mixtures of tannin and powdered carbon with which the fish was embalmed; and I penetrated the disguise of the marinated meats, painted with sauces the colour of sewage; and I diagnosed the wine as being coloured with fuscin, perfumed with furfurol, and enforced with molasses and plaster. Là-bas
When the currants start to burst and flood the pan with colour, tip in the loganberries or raspberries.
Down the spiral path of the pit they bore him, encircling the sheening, glowing Red One that seemed ever imminent to iridesce from colour and light into sweet singing and thunder. THE RED ONE
If the heat has been moderate, and not continued too long, the golden-coloured fcaly porous mafsj called aurum mu - fivum, will be found at the bottom of the veflel; but, if it has been too ftroitg, the - aurum mufivum fufes to a black mafs of a ftriated texture. The first principles of chemistry
The clothes are available in warm natural colours.
It is a sombre painting with the only bright colour provided by the clergymen's vestments and by the headscarves of the women.
Most papers are available in up to five colourways each and all are matched by co-ordinating hopsacks in plain colours.
Millions of wild flowers colour the valleys, especially in April and May.
And my justice shall answer for me tomorrow before thee, when the time of the bargain shall come; and all that is not of divers colours, and spotted, and brown, as well among the sheep as among the goats, shall accurse me of theft. The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Complete The Challoner Revision
Body about the size of a common goose; bill short, vaulted, obtuse, two-thirds of which is covered by an expanded cere of a pale greenish-yellow colour, the tip of the bill being black, arcuated, and truncated. Journal of the Proceedings of the Linnean Society - Vol. 3 Zoology
Colours were good, if none too subtle, but poor contrast made for murky dark scenes with objects lacking depth. Times, Sunday Times
Suddenly, some big cannons come rolling past, painted in camouflage colours. Times, Sunday Times
Young readers will love the bright, bold designs and the luscious colours.
The colours were an exact match.
I don't know how much/if 99% isopropanol will discolour anything. Use Cat Litter To Save Your Doused Phone | Lifehacker Australia
The plants I am going to use include begonias, impatiens and verbenas, which should produce solid mounds and balls of colour.
I spotted a shooting star which, to my astonishment, was bright green in colour.
To finish the portrait, the bearing of the gracious Duncan was brief, bluff, and consequential, and the upward turn of his short copper-coloured nose indicated that he was somewhat addicted to wrath and usquebaugh. The Heart of Mid-Lothian
Your composition is good except for some overcolouring here and there.
Sites promoted as tourist attractions are usually signposted from main roads; look out for brown-coloured ‘tourist signs’.
Light whisky is stored in seasoned charred oak casks, which impart little colour or flavour.
Officers and sailors who normally wear winter rig came to work in jeans, brightly coloured shirts and for some, riding boots.
They were an orange flame colour with an outer ring that glowed. The Sun
He still sports luxuriant sideburns, although he admits that he had to lighten his hair colour to suit his age. Times, Sunday Times
Looking with disgust at the clothing she was going to have to put on, she sighed and began to remove the beautiful rose-coloured silk robes.
‘They cross-breed them with canaries to get what they call ‘mules’, which create different colours and varieties.’
Either is a useful addition to the six standard colours.
She had spent more than she intended on the wetsuit, but couldn't resist its bright fuchsia colours.
The wagons were all unpainted and plain, making them look dull compared to the bright colourful tents.
Schumacher opens the film in terrific style with a black and white section set in 1919 Paris, which gradually melts into a full colour flashback to the bustling 1870s.
The colourful flags added to the gaiety of the occasion.
The depth of colour was greater with increasing supply of iron.
Achan, the head monk, draped in the colours of the dawn, unlatches the door to a large metal cage.
A track for tough cars and tough drivers, it tests every component and every sinew to the limit and few pass with flying colours.
The brown water, grass-sheeted at the sides, conceals the bright yellow sand of the bed; when placed in a tumbler it looks clear and colourless, and the taste is perfectly sweet — brackishness does not extend far above Porto da Lenha. Two Trips to Gorilla Land and the Cataracts of the Congo
a painting, remaining alwaies vnhurt, with their deawie freshnesse, reseruing and holding their colours without interdict of time. Hypnerotomachia The Strife of Loue in a Dreame
Can we preserve nuance, detail and polychromy in our accounts of ourselves – as complex selves in a complex society – without being coerced into subscription towards one group identity or another by colour-blind demagogues? A true democracy demands constant revitalisation of the spirit of openness, generosity and liberality of opinion
With a little planning and preventive measures, you can avoid the common sun and surf damage of faded colour, fragile, brittle or dry hair and yucky split ends.
It is true that this explanation of the bright, conspicuous colours is only a hypothesis, but its foundations -- unpalatableness, and the liability of other butterflies to be eaten, -- are certain, and its consequences -- the existence of mimetic palatable forms -- conform it in the most convincing manner. Evolution in Modern Thought
The contrasting textures and colours work really well together. The Sun
In warm light colours also warm body colours make themselves felt in a pleasant way, whereas the low proportion of short-wave radiation of these light sources more or less kills cold colours such as bluish green, blue and purple. 2. Elements
I look forward to your advice in due course and hopefully a more colourful life.
The paintings reveal Terry's skill as a draughtsman and colourist.
The women were keen to offer me tips on what colour sari I should wear. Times, Sunday Times
This continues into adulthood, when we wear the colours of our football team and observe the customs of a religious group. Times, Sunday Times
The mottling does not have the classic red and grey colours of gley soils, typically formed in waterlogged soils.
After several weeks of argument; the trade union leaders had to haul down their colours and accepted the government's earlier offer.
Some of the prints were badly discoloured.
But you can also swim with turtles, or don scuba gear and explore the corals and colourful fish of the deep. Times, Sunday Times
He did not disappoint us - the spectacular display of fire and colour, reflected in the harbour, was absolutely beyond words.
This is a lovely book to browse through - full of inviting, colourful pictures and uncluttered text.
The re-growth can be any texture and colour, from fine, downy, white hair to your natural look.
Several thousand supporters of Lesotho political parties, waving the multiple colours of party flags, on Monday participated in a demonstration against the "usurped" government of Prime ANC Daily News Briefing
The Mediterranean at this particular spot is any colour except blue, the predominant hue being dirty grey.
Over the course of the year, he's almost hit on the head by a sparrowhawk, gets a whiff of "bad badger breath" when three cubs cannon into his lap, and watches two stoats massacre a screaming leveret, their normally creamy bibs "the colour of a slaughterman's apron". A Year in the Woods: The Diary of a Forest Ranger by Colin Elford
Also outstanding are the eye shadows, in an array of flattering colours that really stay put. Times, Sunday Times
The machine, which On Demand describes as an "ATM for books", prints, binds and trims paperback books with four-colour covers, on demand and at point of sale. Publishing
My view I think explains their uniformly brown colour -- analogous to Brown's sphacelation in mutatis mutandis. Journals of Travels in Assam, Burma, Bhootan, Afghanistan and the Neighbouring Countries
Just 66 additives are permitted in organic food production, and they must come from natural sources and exclude sweeteners and colourings.
A painted horse is a quarter horse with colour, not like piebald or a pinto.
But the painted kerbing and the gaily-coloured banners can't disguise the extent of the social and educational deprivation of this community.
They were a red brilliance and gave the whole stone flooring a colour of blood.
The colours were an exact match.
With his mate riding shotgun and in disbelief, this is a reasonable comedy about looks, with some funny gross-out moments as you view the world through Hal's rose-coloured eyes.
But others of the Muscovite band were fond of congregating at this spot and hour for their lustral summer rites -- white-skinned lads and lasses, matrons and reverent elders, all in a state of Adamitic nudity, splashing about the water of this sunny cover, devouring raw fish and crabs after the manner of the fabled Ichthyophagi, laughing, kissing, saying nice things about God, and combing out each other's long tow-coloured hair. South Wind
The amethyst is a brilliant transparent stone of a purple colour resembling that of diluted wine and varying in shade from the violet purple to rose. The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 14: Simony-Tournon
Single crystals of two or more different colours are not uncommon, making unusual multicoloured faceted stones.
There is a man, approximately my age, attractive in a scruffy, academic sort of way brown corduroy jacket, one of those narrow, stripey, many-coloured scarves that men are wearing this season coiled around his neck, tufty brown hair, sitting across the aisle to my right on a strapontin. Power, corruption and lies
Is discriminating on the grounds of sex more acceptable than discriminating on the basis of skin colour?
Autumn has arrived with its frosty build-up of colours of russet and orange trees.
When Hawkins missed a difficult green the colour finished hanging over a corner pocket and Parrott was left in a full ball snooker.
Logwood is not only used for dyeing blacks and greys as the principal colouring matter, but is also used as a shading colour along with cutch, fustic, quercitron, etc., in dyeing olives, browns, etc., and among the recipes given in this section examples of its use in this direction will be found. The Dyeing of Cotton Fabrics A Practical Handbook for the Dyer and Student
Mr Hardman, I'm sorry, but your view of Little Lever is very different from mine. I took off my rose-coloured glasses a long time ago.
White, metallics and other washed out colours, (such as grey and khaki) dominated the collection.
Vigilance is needed for any features of possible optic neuropathy, such as blurred vision, impaired colour perception, and reduced visual acuity
Spectator opens up to more vivid colour and patterns, with a strong emphasis on a streamlined look with a variety of coat/skirt ensembles and textured suitings.
The article told of a honey-coloured cat that attacked an 83-year-old woman in her garden.
Indeed, one fashion stylist friend tells me that she likes to vary her phone cases according to the colour and style of her manicure. Times, Sunday Times
The black and white dress code was given a splash of colour by members of the Army, who attended in their Reds, and Colchester Town Watch appeared in medieval regalia.
The lines have been scratched out using a needle, on a canvas smeared with oil colours.
Her smooth black hair fell around her shoulders, and her cream-coloured dress nearly matched her pale complexion.
Medicines also contain colourants, often in large amounts.
David Gorwood explained that the Rugby Football League had introduced a new rule which stated that clubs had to have two distinctive kits in different colours for home and away games.
Admittedly, dictatorships do not encourage the cultivation of colourful eccentrics such as Montgomery or Patton.
Her works are exuberant, full of colour, look nice on walls and make people feel happy. Times, Sunday Times
She described the colour and action which are strong features of these traditions.
Standing beside him is a muscular, uniformed old salt with a face the colour of mahogany. Times, Sunday Times
The coloured border pattern of geranium or ivy leaf is not one whit better drawn, or more like geraniums and ivy, than the figures are like figures; but you call the geranium leaf idealized -- why don't you call the figures so? The Two Paths
A bright hue mingled with red and white gives the colour called auburn (Greek). Timaeus
He is forbidden, in fact, to be himself a good citizen; forbidden to be anything more than the colourless instrument of a system of compromise and countercheck. Irish Books and Irish People
The ink of the fixing agent is subsequently overprinted on the above block of colour in the required image.
There is also a swifter motion of a different sort of fire which strikes and dilates the ray of sight until it reaches the eyes, forcing a way through their passages and melting them, and eliciting from them a union of fire and water which we call tears, being itself an opposite fire which comes to them from an opposite direction — the inner fire flashes forth like lightning, and the outer finds a way in and is extinguished in the moisture, and all sorts of colours are generated by the mixture. Timaeus
The tiny arachnid, found in Australia, shows off a rainbow of colours to impress nearby females.
The colours are vibrant and bright, although coloured lighting is overused in many areas.
As the beauticians of the city watched in attention, her fingers moved nimbly showcasing the latest in hairstyling, colouring and snipping techniques.
Look at those hollyhocks, like pyramids of roses; those garlands of the convolvulus major of all colours, hanging around that tall pole, like the wreathy hop-bine; those magnificent dusky cloves, breathing of the Spice Islands; those flaunting double dahlias; those splendid scarlet geraniums, and those fierce and warlike flowers the tiger-lilies. Our Village
The master warmed beneath his copper-coloured rind. The Hand of Ethelberta
You can see the natural colours of the green and the perpetual moss growth that shows up from space. Times, Sunday Times
Malemute, nor Hudson Bay; he looked like all of them and he didn't look like any of them; and on top of it all he had some of the white man's dog in him, for on one side, in the thick of the mixed yellow - brown-red-and-dirty-white that was his prevailing colour, there was a spot of coal-black as big as a water-bucket. That Spot
Colour is important from dusky pastels through to the darkest hues.
She felt as if she had left all colour behind, that from now on she would see the world in monochrome.
All was coloured with admiration of his beauty and grace, and mingled with boundless pity for their sad overclouding and defeature! Thomas Wingfold, Curate

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