COLOURED in a Sentence

Learn COLOURED 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 COLOURED, such as:
1. A good horse cannot be of a bad colour.
2. She coloured the picture in with crayons.
3. She bought me a box of prettily coloured soaps.
4. The cock has brighter coloured feathers than the hen.
5. Please paste these coloured sheets of paper together.
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Animal Farm by George Orwell
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 Meanings and Examples of COLOURED
coloured
 a.  (used of color) artificially produced; not natural
 a.  having color or a certain color; sometimes used in combination
Classic Sentence: (210 in 15 pages)
1  This news was usually gotten from the coloured man who was sent to the post-office for the mail.
Up From Slavery: An Autobiography By Booker T. Washington
Context  Highlight   In Chapter I.
2  In some way a feeling got among the coloured people that it was far from proper for them to bear the surname of their former owners, and a great many of them took other surnames.
Up From Slavery: An Autobiography By Booker T. Washington
Context  Highlight   In Chapter II.
3  Some of our neighbours were coloured people, and some were the poorest and most ignorant and degraded white people.
Up From Slavery: An Autobiography By Booker T. Washington
Context  Highlight   In Chapter II.
4  In the midst of my struggles and longing for an education, a young coloured boy who had learned to read in the state of Ohio came to Malden.
Up From Slavery: An Autobiography By Booker T. Washington
Context  Highlight   In Chapter II.
5  About this time the question of having some kind of a school opened for the coloured children in the village began to be discussed by members of the race.
Up From Slavery: An Autobiography By Booker T. Washington
Context  Highlight   In Chapter II.
6  In the midst of the discussion about a teacher, another young coloured man from Ohio, who had been a soldier, in some way found his way into town.
Up From Slavery: An Autobiography By Booker T. Washington
Context  Highlight   In Chapter II.
7  It was soon learned that he possessed considerable education, and he was engaged by the coloured people to teach their first school.
Up From Slavery: An Autobiography By Booker T. Washington
Context  Highlight   In Chapter II.
8  One day, while at work in the coal-mine, I happened to overhear two miners talking about a great school for coloured people somewhere in Virginia.
Up From Slavery: An Autobiography By Booker T. Washington
Context  Highlight   In Chapter III.
9  This was the first time that I had ever heard anything about any kind of school or college that was more pretentious than the little coloured school in our town.
Up From Slavery: An Autobiography By Booker T. Washington
Context  Highlight   In Chapter III.
10  Perhaps the thing that touched and pleased me most in connection with my starting for Hampton was the interest that many of the older coloured people took in the matter.
Up From Slavery: An Autobiography By Booker T. Washington
Context  Highlight   In Chapter III.
11  Many years after that the coloured citizens of Richmond very kindly tendered me a reception at which there must have been two thousand people present.
Up From Slavery: An Autobiography By Booker T. Washington
Context  Highlight   In Chapter III.
12  The rejoicing on the part of all classes of the coloured people, and especially the older ones, over my return, was almost pathetic.
Up From Slavery: An Autobiography By Booker T. Washington
Context  Highlight   In Chapter IV.
13  At the close of the hotel season I returned to my former home in Malden, and was elected to teach the coloured school at that place.
Up From Slavery: An Autobiography By Booker T. Washington
Context  Highlight   In Chapter IV.
14  During this period not a few coloured people lost their lives.
Up From Slavery: An Autobiography By Booker T. Washington
Context  Highlight   In Chapter IV.
15  I saw one open battle take place at Malden between some of the coloured and white people.
Up From Slavery: An Autobiography By Booker T. Washington
Context  Highlight   In Chapter IV.
Example Sentence: (93 in 7 pages)
1  Predators have been observed to avoid attacking brightly coloured species.
2  She bought me a box of prettily coloured soaps.
3  Brightly coloured packaging made the pens especially appealing to children.
4  The market was full of brightly coloured vegetables set out on stalls.
5  These flowers are brightly coloured in order to attract butterflies.
6  Please paste these coloured sheets of paper together.
7  The black and white pattern is relieved by tiny coloured flowers.
8  She coloured the picture in with crayons.
9  His professional judgement was coloured by his personal antipathies.
10  The pale walls provide a perfect foil for the brightly coloured furniture.
11  These brightly coloured insects flit about above the surface of the water.
12  She was dressed in pure white; an amber - coloured scarf was passed over her shoulder and across her breast, tied at the side, and descending in long, fringed ends below her knee.
13  The cock has brighter coloured feathers than the hen.
14  A good horse cannot be of a bad colour.
15  Strong light will affect the depth of colour of your carpets and curtains.