How To Use Colourful In A Sentence
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By the close their ranks have doubled into a colourful army stamping out percussive rhythms in wooden sandals.
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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.
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Ask the average primary schooler here about their teacher and they'll give you a cascade of colourful answers.
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This year the colourful event shirt features a clown and will be on sale in all sizes from the tiniest to the gigantesque.
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The family show includes colourful costumes, lively characters, music, comedy and audience participation.
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Colourful wild flowers sprung up by the roadside, purple violets and white daisies dotted among the grass.
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The wagons were all unpainted and plain, making them look dull compared to the bright colourful tents.
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The colourful flags added to the gaiety of the occasion.
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I look forward to your advice in due course and hopefully a more colourful life.
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But you can also swim with turtles, or don scuba gear and explore the corals and colourful fish of the deep.
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This is a lovely book to browse through - full of inviting, colourful pictures and uncluttered text.
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Admittedly, dictatorships do not encourage the cultivation of colourful eccentrics such as Montgomery or Patton.
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In other words, its aim is to exploit its heritage as a global luxury brand based around its colourful, modern rainwear.
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The members wore colourful headscarves and patchwork jackets and were carrying rucksacks and canvas bags.
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At 10 a.m., the car rally was flagged off from the park, and the colourful caravan, on its way, attracted people lazing around in their homes.
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It's going to be a really colourful, bright musical set in Brazil in the 1960s.
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The book as a whole is an unrivalled visual record of a colourful period in Bengali history.
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The colourful Yorkshireman umpired the first innings of a game between an Old England XI and Lashings World XI at Scarborough Cricket Club.
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Everyone around is wearing colourful sweaters, cardigans and pullovers.
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In the 16th and 17th centuries, the cries turned still more colourful and clamorous, as a kind of auditory arms race developed between the vendors.
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He stood there, as calm as ever, wearing only his neat black trousers and his scuffed boots, a few tendrils of plum-coloured hair tracing a colourful pattern against the smooth monotony of his skin.
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The event is to finalise plans to screen off the old Larch Street site with colourful hoardings while it is being developed.
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• Le Trianon, avenue des Bains, Parc des Thermes, Allevard, +33 4 7671 9617, letrianon-allevard.frAlsace surprises the visitor, not just with the strange Germanic dialect and its colourful half-timbered gingerbread houses clustered in tiny villages surrounded by rolling vine-clad hills, but also with some of the country's finest cuisine.
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They provide food and safe nesting sites for the birds as well as a colourful display.
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The colourful, often controversial lives of world champions have featured on the big screen.
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The blennies seem to be halfway between our shanny and tompot blenny; they have no crest on top of their heads but are big and quite colourful.
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The venue is purpose built for rituals and ceremonies, with appropriately fabulous acoustics, lavish trimmings and colourfully costumed officiants.
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Sparrows, starlings, Indian mynahs and feral pigeons rarely visit Australian gardens, which welcome an array of colourful native birds.
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A slow descent into a long and murky winter; on my doorstep, the colourful leaves on the trees withered and fell, and there was no spring.
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The breezy, colourful days of fall are well past, but winter is still hanging on the periphery.
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The team, led by Professor David Cumming and Dr Tim Drysdale from the University's department of electronics and electrical engineering, will take advantage of a phenomenon called plasmon resonance in their efforts to create a microchip for cameras and other imaging equipment that will produce sharper, more colourful images.
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Coastal heath vegetation is particularly colourful this wildflower season.
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After the earlier downpours, the rain clouds cleared and the sun arrived just in time for Saturday's colourful street procession.
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The ornamental Christmas pepper is grown for its colourful fruits rather than for eating, although they are developed from Cayenne peppers and chillies and, if eaten, will provide similar eye-watering effects.
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They lead a busy and colourful life on the campus.
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The biggest surprise in this colourful biography is that its subject allowed it to be published.
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You can find all sorts of colourful books for your brats here.
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This promises first-class singing and colourful spectacle.
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Even their clothes are more vibrant - they wear colourful sarongs and headscarves, while the men favour western T-shirts and trousers.
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Their value as ornamental plants is contained in their intricately patterned and colourful foliage which ranges from jade green with cyclamen veins; chartreuse with carmine veins; and Sherwood green with silver veins.
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SCCULENTS: Adenium is spectacular for its swollen stems, called caudex, and colourful flowers.
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In the evenings, the place wears a festive look, with colourful lights decorating the trees, and the entire front wall of the building.
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Presented by a large cast of colourful characters, The Quare Fellow paints a portrait of life inside an Irish prison, in which songs, humour and compassion evoke the banter between inmates and wardens.
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This colourful handmade woollen wear come in green, red, ivory and black.
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Claiming to have Spanish-styled decorations, the eatery carefully chose its ornaments and above each table hangs a colourful and exquisite lamp.
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The light was so gentle over the river, and the thronging crowds at the waterfront were so colourful.
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The look is minimalist mixed with splashes of modern art and bright turquoise tiles add a colourful lift.
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She hopes that the colourful sights and sounds of the street paraders will encourage Hillbrow residents to join in the celebrations, instead of ‘throwing things out of windows’.
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The colourful, fat tubular flowers of the Antirrhinum, with their snapping 'dragon mouths', have long held a fascination for small children.
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But now everything she had once seen as colourful, lyrical, dramatic, even, was subsumed into a vast, unquenchable litany of light.
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Long colourful dresses are the style embodiment of hot days and steamy nights, so save the maxi until the mercury rises.
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Darwin considered the peacock's tail to be an example of sexual selection, that is, the peahen prefers the more colourful peacock tails, so evolution favours more colourful tails.
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The dancers leading the procession were in colourful and elaborate costumes.
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The various lessons involve showing large and colourful letters on the screen, sometimes the float and bounce around.
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Mexican fajitas, sweet-and-sour chicken, fish dishes and Ralph's speciality, home-made steak pie with onion sauce, all will feature on a colourful menu.
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They were shown how to make colourful outfits, tabards, headbands and banners using brightly coloured silks that they painted.
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The colourful flags added to the gaiety of the occasion.
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By following these seven basic principles when xeriscaping your lawn and garden, you can create a lush, colourful and unique garden.
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There are seals and porpoises, thick kelp forests, colourful corals, and large wolf fish.
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There were Berber men with daggers and turbaned heads, and women with colourful headscarves.
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The highest rated are also the most colourful - dried fruits, brambles, strawberries, spinach, beetroot and sweet potatoes.
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This may indicate that the Picts routinely used Irish names for girls, which would be consistent with the colourful origin legend of the first Picts having obtained wives from Ireland see article on Pictish matriliny for the legend.
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Even more colourfully, a newly elected pope might choose an entirely new papal name.
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With its colourful houses, street cafes and lively nightlife, the area is best-known as a hangout for students and a stop-off for those visiting the city pad of the poet Pablo Neruda, which is kept shipshape (literally), just as he and his third wife left it.
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Occasional outbreaks of colourful language aside, the exchanges seemed surprisingly civilised.
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She'd come and pick me up from school wearing a sari or something really colourful.
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BBC1 Glam rock is regarded as one of the most exciting and colourful periods in pop.
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Between them they portray a host of colourful characters in a small Irish village all wanting to be extras in a Hollywood film.
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Who was that strange looking lady with the colourful bonnet hurrying along the road and what was that peeping out of her basket?
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Even in the middle of penury, dreams remain colourful.
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Oliver becomes someone to whom things happen and his innate goodness and innocence palls when he's surrounded by so many more vibrant and colourful characters.
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He is the inventor of the plastination process in which human tissues are impregnated with plastics and silicone rubber to become permanent, colourful, and odourless.
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Wow, it's super! So many types of candy paper! So colourful and so nice!
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They wore colourful cotton dressed, woven grass armbands and anklets, and red palm bands in their hair.
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Onion Domes Moscow postcards typically feature the colourful striped domes of St. Basil's Cathedral and the neighboring Red Square. St.
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They often wear colourful clothing and belts to distinguish which rank they are in the Chiui hierarchy.
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There are no cars in sight, so one could imagine feeling free to amble about, talk easily, smell the colourful flowers cascading over the whitewashed stone walls, and enjoy a glass of wine at an outdoor street café.
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Sure enough, this provided happy hours communing with nature at her most colourful.
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The story she told was certainly colourful, and extended over her life in England, Germany and Spain.
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Be inspired by the colourful dazzle ship moored at the museum.
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What a colourful sight the gondoliers make in their straw boaters and striped sweaters, but we heard none of them singing.
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The garden was full of colourful and fascinating flowers.
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Along the way, he meets a long line of interesting and colourful characters.
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The game looks great and has a cutesy art style that is approachable and colourful.
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A wide variety was on show with items such as long colourful floaty dresses and tops, tailored coats, funky knitwear and distressed jackets - all of which I have no doubt will be best sellers.
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The colourful houses lining the fjord were mirrored in the calm surface.
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A dozen or so tables are covered with red and white check tablecloths and colourful posters line the walls.
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Colourful multitudes thronged the traffic-congested streets, poring over programmes, posters and booking kits.
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Other free items being handed out will include baby bibs warning of the health effects smoking has on babies, balloons, car air fresheners and other colourful items to attract the attention of smokers.
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Small wonder, perhaps, that his earth, air, fire, and water were wrought into different blends - the materials of the natural world - through the agency of the colourful principles Love and Strife.
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The Highwayman's Case suffices as a colourful example.
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Delighted crowds cheered on a spectacular carnival of colourful floats and bands on Saturday.
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Slap-up lunches and colourful parades marked Thanksgiving Day in America.
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The centrepiece of this colourful quarter is the magnificent Chinese Arch, built by the finest craftsmen of Beijing.
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The company produces hand-made chocolates in bright colourful wrapping.
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Very effective hampers can be made from a cheap basket and low-priced toiletries from pound shops, if wrapped in cellophane and colourful ribbon.
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My holiday style is usually more colourful than my town style.
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This book is beautifully colourfully illustrated by Edward Eaves and is lots of fun.
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Mind you, he did say it in slightly more colourful language!
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We passed small shoals of bigeye snapper, masked angelfish and a couple of colourful groupers on our way to a garden of gorgonians.
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Whether using sculpture, collage, painting or drawing, the students' works are fresh and colourful - ranging from a picture of a desert made with sand and gum leaves to a depiction of an outback dunny made from old wood and cotton balls.
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The body has no colourful feng sf wing, mind ACTS upon mind.
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The software makes it easy to create colourful graphs.
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Her mother had mentioned how colourful the yard was, now that spring had arrived.
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His language was colourful and perhaps that was why so many of the players loved it.
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Colourful illustrations are integrated into the text.
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The skirt you describe is colourful and strongly patterned, so it's best to keep it simple and fairly plain up top.
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Until the late 18th century, Scots liquid measures had colourful names like ` mutchkin’ and ` chopin’ (2 mutchkins).
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Elsewhere, bright geometric patterns and colourful swirls provided the surface decoration.
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This arrangement demands an extremely colourful orchestra that includes piccolo, four horns, harp, orchestral bells, and tam-tam.
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It is wacky and different, bright and colourful.
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There are many dancers and many wildly colourful costumes, all contributing to a mood of heightened sensations.
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The game followed a colourful opening ceremony before a crowd of seventy-four thousand.
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He really is a colourful character.
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They do make fantastic, generously proportioned scones and really colourful salads.
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The colourful awnings over the shop windows, again, gave protection against the sun.
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He has no regrets about that loose comment or any of the others he has fired out over the course of a colourful career.
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He overcame the culture shock from the cosmopolitan, colourful world he saw there, and stayed for six years.
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We got up early and beat the Bank Holiday traffic to the western dales, seeking a quiet and very colourful walk on the land between Grassington and Malham.
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The graphics are bold and colourful.
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A curved, paved area links the lawn to a colourful flowering herb garden, one of only two on the island.
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The new place is colourful and inviting, as sunflower-yellow walls help to show off Obadia's collection of colourful wall hangings, photographs, ornamental pots and fanciful souvenirs.
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The dramatic announcement brings to an end one of the most controversial and colourful careers in Scottish football.
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The hot thermal pools are fringed by extraordinarily colourful mineral deposits, while sulphurous steam percolates all around.
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Hundreds of the colourful pets were lined up in their cages ready for judging - when one suddenly toppled off its perch.
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A colourful array of larger-than-life characters descends on the summer colony.
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Spike wrote: ‘We present a very colourful act in rhumba costume and our numbers comprise sambas, beguines, rhumbas etc.’
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Colourful parasols dot its fine shingle beach and, inland, rolling rural landscapes await those who like to explore.
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The National University of Colombia, in Bogota, is a colourful and lively place.
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The history of this southernmost tip of America can be discovered while wandering the colourful streets of the old town.
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We watched the intro, which is a great, colourful and enticing cavalcade of various scenarios: people dancing, doing yoga, necking and so on.
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HAPPY HOLI TO ALL KDT PUYSRe: The pg Kolkata Dream TeamRe: The pg Kolkata Dream TeamWish a very colourful Holi to all ma mates here ... have a blast!! regards.
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There's the butterfly house, a riot of colourful plants and animals with more than 60 species of butterflies and moths.
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What a colourful sight the gondoliers make in their straw boaters and striped sweaters, but we heard none of them singing.
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The spine incorporates Main and Fox streets, where pedestrians treading on the colourful paved streets have right of way.
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Be inspired by the colourful dazzle ship moored at the museum.
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His lyrics are always childlike and unpretentious, evoking ridiculous pictures and colourful characters.
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The accordion player played for the children as they wound their colourful ribbons round the maypole.
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A parent, who is a costumer for a theatre company, provided many of the bright, colourful costumes.
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Sunday's parade promises to be the biggest, brightest and most colourful parade ever in the county town.
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The tasteful rooms are colourful and spacious.
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You and some of your correspondents are fond of colourfully bagging Andrew and that is your right.
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The crowds at this year's Puck Fair seemed bigger than usual as locals mingled with tourists and returned emigrants for one of the oldest and most colourful pageants in the country.
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It is the kind of place where bulls run through the DNA, where the annual fiesta is the highlight of the year, and where the bullfight is the highlight of the fiesta, where bullfighters are billed like film stars on colourful retro-style posters.
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Outside her apartment is a collection of begonias and cyclamen and other colourful plants in pots.
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The weasel family includes such colourful characters as otters, wolverines, skunks, minks and badgers.
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The shallow walls, deep reefs and colourful coral gardens that lie beyond its never-ending coastline leave a lasting impression on the most experienced of divers.
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This colourful Edinburgh deli is the place to come for South African delicacies such as biltong and boerewors sausages.
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The names of the roles are colourful; the grinder is the muscle, putting out enough torque to control the huge wind sail.
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The result has all the colourful character of other hand dragged kitchens, but with a very real and visible bonus.
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The colourful event was redolent of Nashville with everyone dressed for the occasion in denims, cowboy hats and rhinestone ornamented boots.
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Against a flat midnight-blue background the roistering figures tumble about, squabbling with each other or brandishing colourful fire-sticks.
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She is a colourful character with a forceful personality and extremely green fingers.
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He is also sorry for the colourful language used to emphasise the point.
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Masses of colourful rhododendrons mingle with the sweet scented yellow azaleas in early summer.
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His career might politely be described as colourful.
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Rooms are cosy and colourful, some with french windows leading on to balconies.
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A stunningly colourful inauguration service marked the enthronement of the 97th Archbishop of York at the city's Minster yesterday in a ceremony which broke from traditions dating back more than 1,200 years.
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A colourful design was embroidered on the sleeve of the shirt.
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The colourful language made for entertaining viewing.
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Yet with the rise of the grouch has come a colourful backlash.
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Definitely a most spectacular and colourful event to grace Swindon roads and beautiful surrounding countryside.
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The weasel family includes such colourful characters as otters, wolverines, skunks, minks and badgers.
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To the front is a large forecourt with herbaceous borders and colourful flowerbeds.
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Generations later, the stories are still as rude, irreverent and colourful as they were way back then.
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Forest Goblins wear exotic war paint, carry war axes and are often decorated with colourful feathers.
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The costumes are beautiful and colourful and superbly crafted.
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If you're wearing a plain outfit, choose a bag that will add interest: get a sparkly/beaded/colourful clutch.
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On either side of the path were huge trees, blossoming with colourful flowers.
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Don't forget to garnish dishes with edible flowers for an unusual and colourful touch.
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The women, adorned in colourful skirts and paints, offered their fine, hand-woven lavalava skirts.
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Weir's style, combining thorough historical research with a colourful and pacy gift for storytelling, has endeared her to countless readers.
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You can give your kitchen a colourful makeover without purchasing a new one.
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The machine gave some musical bleeps and displayed the result of the game in large, colourful letters.
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Colourful piping tipped the edges of flesh toned dresses.
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One side room has a varied and colourful display of period costume.
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Colourful material and tassels hung down from the top edges and corners of the bed.
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A torch procession will walk to the beach, with children carrying colourful lanterns made at workshops during the day, and on arrival at the beach there will be a large willow sculpture of a phoenix to be set on fire.
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The smoking jacket has a colourful history.
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But there is also a sense of irrepressible fun, particularly in the lengthy, inventive and colourful swearing.
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But at least he was passionate, colourful, and controversial - and what a contrast that is with the grey suited dullards running the game today?
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Villagers were in their colourful headgear huddled together in a lurching truck on a rustic road.
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Head teacher Ruth Matthews said the five field maple and five rowan trees were chosen to provide colourful leaves and berries for the wildlife.
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The man could write as insightfully as Nick Tosches and as colourfully as Hunter S Thompson.
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The ceremony included the setting up of a very colourful tree - resembling a banana tree, which had a number of colourful dolls hanging from the leaves.
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The law states that if you drop said toast on the floor, it will always fall butter side down, thus attracting a large covering of dust, colourful fluff, and cat hairs.
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The CD also contains a photo gallery of 54 ornamental fishes, especially the attractive and colourful varieties like Scarlet banded barb and Rosy barb.
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But you can also swim with turtles, or don scuba gear and explore the corals and colourful fish of the deep.
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Elsewhere, bright geometric patterns and colourful swirls provided the surface decoration.
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These birds have colourful feathers to attract a mate.
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The dancers leading the procession were in colourful and elaborate costumes.
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That was made abundantly clear at a colourful congress in the provincial capital, Jayapura, last month.
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The sparkling, bedizened, colourful Khan army had started marching nonetheless, spears and scimitars held high, saluting the sun.
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Bromham was awash with colourful floats and costumes as residents celebrated in the carnival procession on Saturday.
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From the colourful tiny candles bedecking birthday cakes to the ordinary white ones with long wicks, candles have not only served to dispel darkness, but also served as means to express love and affection.
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She would like to eat salmon en croute but her husband has vetoed the idea because he thinks it looks too dry, or ‘too claggy’ as he colourfully put it.
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It's going to be a really colourful, bright musical set in Brazil in the 1960s.
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Rooms are cosy and colourful, some with french windows leading on to balconies.
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Her body with its generous curves still followed its own limpid rhythms and her long braid with its colourful Patiala parandis moved slowly to and fro upon that impregnable behind.
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The combination of gold with creative materials, colourful precious stones and semi-precious stones is also very much in vogue.
