COLOR in a Sentence

Learn COLOR 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.

334 example sentences for COLOR, such as:

1. This is a color television.
2. Tears are no color of blood.
3. The room is lacking in color.
4. Crimson is her favourite color.
5. This color does not go with that.

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 Meanings and Examples of COLOR
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
color
 n.  the quality of an object with respect to light reflected by the object
Classic Sentence: (210 in 15 pages)
1  Everyone had his own idea on that subject and was loath to relinquish it, just as everyone had ideas about the color and cut of the uniforms.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER I
2  The red furrows and the gashed red road lost their magical blood color and became plain brown earth.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER II
3  The red color of her skin, narrow high forehead, prominent cheek bones and the hawk-bridged nose which flattened at the end above thick negro lips, all showed the mixture of two races.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER IV
4  Discarded garments lay about her on the floor, the bed, the chairs, in bright heaps of color and straying ribbons.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER V
5  Frail, fine-boned, so white of skin that her flaming hair seemed to have drawn all the color from her face into its vital burnished mass, she was nevertheless possessed of exuberant health and untiring energy.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER V
6  For one short instant, it was as though the sun had ducked behind a cool cloud, leaving the world in shadow, taking the color out of things.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER V
7  Under the arbor sat the married women, their dark dresses decorous notes in the surrounding color and gaiety.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VI
8  And to think I'll never wear that color again, not even when I do get out of mourning.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER IX
9  Gray, as the color of the Confederate uniform, practically disappeared and homespun of a butternut shade took its place.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XII
10  It was of dark-green taffeta, lined with water silk of a pale-jade color.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XIII
11  Even butternut was now none too plentiful, and many of the soldiers were dressed in captured Yankee uniforms which had been turned a dark-brown color with walnut-shell dye.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XV
12  The sky was a hideous lurid color and great swirls of black smoke went twisting up to hand in billowy clouds above the flames.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXIII
13  He peered at her sharply, lowering his head to look into her face, now flaming with color.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXI
14  Scarlett saw in a glance that the dress was bright in color to the point of vulgarity but nevertheless her eyes went over the outfit hungrily.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXII
15  There was color in Scarlett's face and a bright hard glitter in her eyes and she laughed a good deal.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXII
Example Sentence: (124 in 9 pages)
16  Wearing a blue skirt, microstrip wheat color skin looks so healthy, black hair like a waterfall vertically over the shoulders, with a reddish face.
17  Tears are no color of blood.
18  The room is lacking in color.
19  The color is coming back to your face.
20  This color does not go with that.
21  I'm the only person of color in my class.
22  This is a color television.
23  Crimson is her favourite color.
24  Taking the exam is one thing but passing it is a horse of a different color.
25  To me, the past is black and white, but the future is always color.
26  You can stain the wood with this special liquid to give it a pleasing color.
27  Our new neighbor is always flinging his money around , with his color television and his new car every year.
28  Black communities spoke up to defend the rights of all people of color.
29  Yellow was the preponderant color in the room.
30  The cloth blends in with her color of skin very much.