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Example sentences for "color"

Lexicographically close words:
colonnettes; colons; colony; colophon; colophons; colorable; coloration; coloratura; colore; colored
  1. By little and little the color left his cheek; and an expression of the profoundest anxiety overspread his face, causing him to resemble to a still more extraordinary degree his unfortunate brother.

  2. De other two in New Jersey and they make a heap of money they say, but I never see de color of dat money.

  3. Mack was asked the color of the horse, and described the gray.

  4. Of course, de white man sticks to his color and you can't blame him for dat.

  5. I is sorry I has to say all dis 'bout my own color but it is de truth.

  6. It sorta comes to my mind dat in de summer time after crops was lay by, us went to hear one of our color expound de word in a brush harbor, nigh Feasterville.

  7. Her color is dark brown, her features aquiline.

  8. White folks dat is business folks, pays no 'tention to our color as much as they does to dat money makin' power us has.

  9. I wonder if any of you have seen our nest and can tell the color of the eggs that Mrs. Robin lays.

  10. The color of the first plumage of the young is still unsettled.

  11. The color began to fade, the eyes to dim.

  12. If the national ear for music is not so acute as that of some other peoples, the national eye for the harmonies of form and color is better than we often find in older communities.

  13. Suddenly the sun sank, leaving the room dull, all the light and color gone.

  14. Tell him I am here," and the color rose in Graziosa's face at so much honor.

  15. He was a slight, roughly-dressed, but well-formed man of middle age, light in color and of strong yet delicate features.

  16. The brilliant courtiers streamed in, a mass of color and jewels, and Visconti, seated at the head of the table, glanced at the effeminate faces and frivolous bearing of the guests with some contempt.

  17. But a light knock on the outer door interrupted her, and with a heightened color she rose.

  18. Francisco noticed them, and thought grimly they were the color of blood just dry.

  19. A narrow lancet window, placed low in the wall, admitted a subdued light, which fell upon the only spot of color in the room, the suit of turquoise blue the secretary wore.

  20. The Count, with an effort, looked at Mastino, who stood in front of the door he had closed, with a face from which all color had been struck.

  21. The liver is very soft and is easily lacerated and friable; its color is a dark reddish brown.

  22. The skin and the mucous membranes show a varying degree of jaundice, from a light yellow to a dark brownish or orange color; the color deepening over the course of the blood vessels.

  23. At this time nothing can be done to restore the original color as in the absence of the blood circulation, the pigment of the skin will not take up moisture, nor will moisture penetrate the skin itself.

  24. Among the putrefactive bacteria is the bacillus fluorescens, a chromogenic germ, which produces a greenish color when it becomes active in the tissues.

  25. In addition to this treatment, it would be advisable to color the lights in the room in which the body is to be shown, so as to make every thing in the room about the same color of the body, including the persons viewing the remains.

  26. As the liquid clears the green color of the fluorescin becomes evident, if that substance has been absorbed into the blood.

  27. The root is white in color and is the little half moon which you can see next to the skin.

  28. The red color of the blood is not due, therefore, to coloration of the blood plasma, but is caused by the mass of red corpuscles held in suspension in the liquid.

  29. One of the first external evidences of putrefaction is the production of a greenish color in the abdominal wall.

  30. The color is generally of a lemon hue, becoming darker and assuming a bronze or greenish tint as the hepatic lesion assumes a graver character.

  31. There is a chemical action set up between the methylene blue and the formaldehyde which will give to the tissues a greenish color which is quite objectionable.

  32. The skin covering these parts assumes a brownish color which shades to yellow, yellowish green, and finally a green color.

  33. No, I like this gray mixture so much; it is just the color for the boys' stockings.

  34. Margaret, still hesitating, looked up in his face, and saw something there that brought the sweet color flooding over her neck and brow, so swift and hot that instinctively she hid her face in her hands.

  35. A letter from Mr. Schwab, which appears farther on, lends some color to this idea.

  36. The lady can get much local color for a new book.

  37. Color had been lent to the wild rumors about a Postal investigation by the fact that an attack had been made on me in the columns of the Denver Mining Record a year before.

  38. Back came the color to her lips and cheeks; her heart fluttered and beat; she breathed; she opened her eyes.

  39. And so long as he was young and strong, and could get up early in the morning to look at the color of Aurora's wings, that was all very well.

  40. A flaming color spread suddenly over the patient's pale face.

  41. It appeared to him as if the blooming color on her cheek paled.

  42. He changed color and kept catching his breath.

  43. The young leaves and juice of this plant were formerly employed to give color and flavor to puddings, which were known as tansy cakes, or tansy puddings.

  44. In color this peculiar bird is yellowish brown mottled with various shades of brown above, and below buff, white and brown.

  45. The color is yellowish; in one variety the spines are tipped with black.

  46. The leaf-stalk, which may be over one foot in length, and the radiating veins vary in color from yellowish to orange.

  47. There was a very becoming color in his face, partly because he was experienced enough not to mistake her; partly from a sudden and complete realization of her beauty.

  48. He watched her, the color still in his face, and in his eyes a growing fascination.

  49. That, and the color in his face and the something in his eyes, interested her.

  50. It is our prejudice against the color of these poor people that makes us consent to the tremendous wrongs they are suffering.

  51. If it were for an object of benevolence that we are called to renounce that freedom of speech with which God made us, there would be some color of fitness in the demand; but such a sacrifice the cause of truth and mercy never calls us to make.

  52. Just the color of the one rose on the white mother's window bush.

  53. She saw Cordelia Running Bird shrink and color and her face grow very grave.

  54. Just the color of an Indian," observed a little maid of seven, holding up her slim hand to compare it with the red-brown shoes and stockings.

  55. The attempt to prohibit free people of color from inhabiting the State failed by a large majority.

  56. A wild look shone from his eyes and he was of the color of death.

  57. His face was square and large boned and of a ruggedness of color that bespoke a life in the open.

  58. Alongside of it, on the wall, the plaster had a large dent in it where something had struck and just beside it a red smear that reminded me of the color of human blood.

  59. The color in his face gave way to a pallid white.

  60. The man jumped back with his face the color of chalk and got once more upon his horse.

  61. I saw their faces clearly and even the color of their eyes.

  62. But André, who was quicker and more easily hurt, flushed the color of scarlet and knotted his fists.

  63. The ancient Phoenician remains found in the island of Sardinia by Cavalier Cara in 1856 show fine color in their enamels and glass-works.

  64. At the quarries on Rollestone Mountain in Fitchburg beryls of a rich golden color have been blasted out.

  65. A larger world than the circling bound Of light and color that lap me round?

  66. What magnificence of color shone all around them in the hot sunlight!

  67. These experienced chemists kept an emerald at the temperature of melted copper for an hour, and found that, although the stone had become opaque, the color was not affected.

  68. But this could not be done if the color was due to organic matter, which is annihilated or modified beyond recall by combustion.

  69. Sheila, as she went out of the room, had her head cast down and perhaps an extra tinge of color in her young and pretty face.

  70. Then the lively green of the beryl fades away before the overpowering hue of the emerald, whose rich prismatic green may be taken as the purest type of that color known to the chemist or the painter.

  71. The lilacs which grow about so profusely are not of the color of our lilacs in America, being of a rich purple; we should not know they were lilacs but for the familiar odor.

  72. And at this moment Sheila herself appeared, accompanied by her great deerhound, and testifying by the bright color in her face to the assurances of her health her father had been giving.

  73. She had just been lecturing to her three students on the vertebrae, and when she took him up could not help fumbling over his bones, even while she perceived the color and scent of the morning.

  74. If the pink sheet be placed in lime-water, the effect of the lime in correcting the acidity will be evidenced by the return in color to blue.

  75. The rapidity with which the color changes, and the intensity of the color, are indicative of the degree of acidity, and aid the judgment in determining how much lime should be used.

  76. If a sheet of the paper retains its blue color in the soil for twenty minutes, there probably is no lime deficiency.

  77. The casual observer, passing by farms, notes the presence or absence of humus-making material by the color and structure of the soil, and safely infers corresponding fertility or poverty.

  78. The likeness in characteristics that permits the land to be cropped as one field gives some assurance of likeness in plant-food needs, even where the proportion of clay and sand varies and the color is not the same.

  79. Huge rolls of costly rugs and curtains lie in piles round the room and everything is covered with this fine dust so thick that it is not possible to tell the color of a table top.

  80. We went last night; the dancing is much more mechanical posturing than the theater dancing, or than the little geisha dance we saw at Nara, but the color combinations and the way they handled the scenery were wonderful.

  81. With their faces white with rice powder and their purple color in their haoris they are pretty, and especially here where they do not feel the necessity of covering the obi with haori so they look less humpbacked than in fashionable Tokyo.

  82. The lotus ponds are in bloom--wonderful color in a deep rose.

  83. Knowledge reveals to us the nicer shades of color that give us quiet satisfaction--the finer and gentler tones of Nature and of human life that afford us a lasting enjoyment.

  84. You have not perhaps noticed such depth and mellowness of color in other galleries.

  85. The color is a trifle cold in blues, and the surface is glassy; but the portrait has dignity, personality and style.

  86. The color burned into her cheeks again and a shadow lay in her eyes.

  87. Nature nursed the tiny leaves into life," she mused; "gave them form and color and permitted them to sport in happy freedom through all the days of summer, and now at the approach of winter she has bedecked them in gorgeous array.

  88. The seashell color in Geraldine's face deepened to flame, but ignoring the display of feeling she had been too unguarded to suppress, she met her aunt's eyes full and true.

  89. It was but a flash, a passing glance, but the color deepened in her cheeks regardless of her endeavor to keep her attention on the pastor's words, and there came to her again something of the great difficulty of life's problems.

  90. She had not changed her position, but he noticed a twitching of her eyelids and that the color had rushed into her face, burning her cheeks to a scarlet flame.

  91. The color had gone from her face, her eyes were bright and her eyelids burned hot and dry.

  92. The air was crisp and keen and brought a freshness and a bit of color to their faces as they climbed the incline to the church.

  93. The elder man had been known to remark that the rub and wear of life, actual life as he had seen it, would change the color of his son's views.

  94. Then the color flushed over her cheek at his lightest word, and he found a real interest in watching it glow and fade from her pale face.

  95. She sat up, a more natural color over-spreading her countenance, and she murmured inarticulately a few words of thanks, while the kind-hearted steward hastened away again in search of the doctor.

  96. Seating herself on a ruinous little bridge of unpainted and wormeaten timbers, she looked down into a narrow, sluggish rivulet, of the color of ink, which oozed noiselessly from the morass into the ocean.

  97. The color of the skin is a dark chocolate brown rather than black, and on unexposed portions of the body approaches a yellowish tint of the Malayan.

  98. They have been described by natives of Baggao as being very similar to the ordinary Filipinos in physical characteristics except that they are darker in color and have bushy hair.

  99. The color of the eyes is a very dark brown or black.

  100. The attention of the first Europeans who visited the Philippines was attracted by people with frizzly hair and with a skin darker in color than that of the ruling tribes.

  101. Allard accepted willingly, even gaily; a little of his color had revived with the ocean wind, some fine elixir had mounted through his veins as the yacht drew from the arms of the harbor and danced out over the long Atlantic swell.

  102. Too assured of their friendship for resentment or to attribute the speech to anything except interest in his affairs, Allard smiled even while changing color with pain.

  103. Adrian moved then, and the color rushed over his cheeks as he struck one small open palm on the arm of his chair.

  104. Perhaps the thought of just how humiliating this could be made was also present in Stanief's mind, perhaps some deeper emotion, for there was no trace of color in his firm dark face.

  105. Yet--" Allard flushed from throat to temples, the color dying out again to leave even his lips white.

  106. She met his eyes, helpless as a child in the great reaction; his warm clasp seemed to melt the chill despair of the last days, a little color came back to her cheek and something flashed rainbow-like upon her lashes.

  107. Iria grew pale, then raised her hands to her cheeks to cover the returning color that dyed even her temples.

  108. Nothing would escape their observation nor elude their criticism, from the creations in color lining the walls of the art gallery, to the most intricate mechanism of inventive genius in the basement.

  109. She recalled--strangely enough and for the first time--that one kiss, and a little tremor brought the hot color to her cheek.

  110. When David Hosmer presented himself, they were intense only with expectancy and the color was in her cheek like the blush in a shell.


  111. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "color" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    acting; action; adjunct; adorn; adornment; affect; affectation; air; alibi; allowance; angle; apology; appearance; architecture; argument; arrangement; array; atmosphere; attitude; background; balance; banner; bearing; beautify; bedaub; bedeck; belie; bend; besmear; bias; blazon; blind; blood; bluff; blush; brand; breathe; breed; brew; brightness; brilliance; brow; burlesque; calcimine; camouflage; caricature; carriage; cast; catastrophe; chalk; character; characterization; clan; class; cloak; coat; coating; color; coloration; coloring; complexion; complication; composition; confuse; continuity; contrivance; copy; countenance; cover; crimson; darken; daub; deception; deck; decontamination; decorate; decoration; delineate; delusion; demeanor; denomination; denouement; depict; description; design; designation; development; device; diagram; diminish; dip; disguise; dispose; dissemblance; distemper; distort; dizen; doodle; draft; draw; dredge; dress; drier; drift; dye; ease; elaboration; embellish; embellishment; emblazon; embroider; embroidery; enamel; enrich; ensign; episode; exaggerate; excuse; extenuate; fable; facade; face; falsify; falsity; favor; feather; feature; features; feint; flag; flame; flavor; flesh; flourish; flush; form; fraud; fresco; front; frown; fudge; furbish; gaiety; garb; garnish; genre; genus; gild; gilt; gimmick; glare; glaze; gloss; glow; glower; gnarl; grace; grain; ground; grouping; growl; guise; handle; hatch; hue; humbug; ignore; ilk; illuminate; illumination; imbrue; imbue; imposture; impregnate; incident; incline; induce; infiltrate; influence; infuse; ingrain; instill; intensity; key; kidney; kin; kind; label; lacquer; lead; leaven; lessen; limn; line; lineaments; lines; looks; lot; lour; lower; magnify; make; manner; mantle; mark; mask; masquerade; medium; mien; mince; mischievousness; misconstrue; misdirect; misinterpret; misquote; misrepresent; misuse; mitigate; mitigation; mold; mood; motif; mould; moulder; mouldy; move; movement; mythos; nature; number; ornament; ostentation; overcharge; overdraw; overstate; paint; pale; palliate; palliative; pallor; parody; pencil; pendant; penetrate; pennant; permeate; perspective; persuade; persuasion; pervade; pervert; phase; phylum; picture; pigment; pink; plan; plausibility; plot; port; portray; pose; posing; position; posture; prank; predispose; preen; prejudice; presence; pretense; pretension; pretext; prime; primer; priming; prompt; protestation; qualification; race; recognition; redden; refuge; representation; romance; rose; rouge; saturate; saturation; scheme; scowl; scratch; screen; season; seeming; semblance; shade; shading; shadow; sham; shape; shellac; show; simulacrum; simulation; sketch; slant; smear; snap; snarl; soften; softening; sort; species; speciousness; spice; spit; stain; stammer; stamp; stance; stand; standard; steep; stencil; stipple; story; strain; stratagem; streamer; stripe; structure; style; subject; subterfuge; suffuse; sway; switch; technique; temper; tempera; theme; thinner; timbre; tincture; tinge; tint; tonality; tone; topic; torture; trace; trait; transfuse; travesty; treatment; tribe; trick; trim; trimming; turn; turpentine; twist; type; understate; value; variety; varnish; vehicle; veil; visage; warp; wash; whiten; whitewash; whitewashing; work; wrench; wrest


    Some related collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    color and; color from; color light; color line; color pattern; color scheme; colored children; colored citizens; colored eyes; colored folks; colored hair; colored lights; colored marble; colored paper; colored people; colored person; colored persons; colored population; colored satin; colored school; colored silk; colored soldiers; colored woman; colored women; coloring matter; colorless liquid