COLOUR in a Sentence

Learn COLOUR from example sentences; some of them are from classic books. These examples are selected from a corpus with 300,000 sentences, including classic works and current mainstream media. Some sentences also link to their contexts.
303 example sentences for COLOUR, such as:
1. The window was all sky without colour.
2. A good horse cannot be of a bad colour.
3. My shirt is more ivory colour than white.
4. The horse was almost pure white in colour.
5. His hair had latterly began to change its colour.
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Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
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 Meanings and Examples of COLOUR
colour
 v.  affect as in thought or feeling
 n.  (physics) the characteristic of quarks that determines their role in the strong interaction
Classic Sentence: (210 in 15 pages)
1  In an instant the contents assumed a dull mahogany colour, and a brownish dust was precipitated to the bottom of the glass jar.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In PART I: CHAPTER I. MR. SHERLOCK HOLMES
2  After walks has shown me splashes upon his trousers, and told me by their colour and consistence in what part of London he had received them.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In PART I: CHAPTER II. THE SCIENCE OF DEDUCTION
3  They were of a pearly grey colour, small, round, and almost transparent against the light.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In PART I: CHAPTER VII. LIGHT IN THE DARKNESS
4  It lamented: Dispersed are we, as they streamed, spotting the grass with colour, across the lawns, and down the paths: Dispersed are we.
Between the Acts By Virginia Woolf
Context  Highlight   In Unit 7
5  Her cheeks had been powdered; her colour glowed smooth and clear underneath.
Between the Acts By Virginia Woolf
Context  Highlight   In Unit 9
6  The window was all sky without colour.
Between the Acts By Virginia Woolf
Context  Highlight   In Unit 13
7  He was the usual cut-and-dry apothecary, of no particular age and colour, with a strong Edinburgh accent, and about as emotional as a bagpipe.
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde By Robert Louis Stevenson
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER STORY OF THE DOOR
8  The lawyer liked this letter well enough; it put a better colour on the intimacy than he had looked for; and he blamed himself for some of his past suspicions.
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde By Robert Louis Stevenson
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER INCIDENT OF THE LETTER
9  The mixture, which was at first of a reddish hue, began, in proportion as the crystals melted, to brighten in colour, to effervesce audibly, and to throw off small fumes of vapour.
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde By Robert Louis Stevenson
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER DR. LANYON'S NARRATIVE
10  I sent out for a fresh supply, and mixed the draught; the ebullition followed, and the first change of colour, not the second; I drank it and it was without efficiency.
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde By Robert Louis Stevenson
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER HENRY JEKYLL'S FULL STATEMENT OF THE CASE
11  Her colour brightened, and she turned to him with a look of interest.
Hard Times By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER VII
12  He was startled when they came upon him while he was engaged in this latter pastime, and his colour changed.
Hard Times By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER VII
13  She looked at him, as he struck the table and made the teacups ring, with a proud colour in her face that was a new change, Mr. Harthouse thought.
Hard Times By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER VII
14  Her colour rose as she said it modestly and hurriedly.
Hard Times By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER I
15  His hair had latterly began to change its colour.
Hard Times By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER III
Example Sentence: (93 in 7 pages)
1  A good horse cannot be of a bad colour.
2  Strong light will affect the depth of colour of your carpets and curtains.
3  The horse was almost pure white in colour.
4  Women of colour who face racist practices can not be simply incorporated into models which assume white women as the norm.
5  The attitude of the parents toward the usefulness of what is learned must colour the way children approach school.
6  Truth needs no colour; beauty, no pencil.
7  Whatever your colour scheme, there's a fabric to match.
8  Israel offers automatic citizenship to all Jews who want it, whatever colour they are and whichever language they speak.
9  My shirt is more ivory colour than white.
10  White is the standard colour for this model of refrigerator.
11  The clear, lively illustrations are in full colour.
12  The computer chip compresses and decompresses a colour image in less than a second.
13  In small homes a single colour scheme can create a sense of space.
14  A hairdresser's job is to cut, arrange and colour the customer's hair.
15  Most petrol stations use colour coding for different types of petrol.