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Example sentences for "color and"

  • The ribbon around Toto's neck had also lost its green color and was as white as Dorothy's dress.

  • Her hair was a rich red in color and fell in flowing ringlets over her shoulders.

  • Growing from her shoulders were wings, gorgeous in color and so light that they fluttered if the slightest breath of air reached them.

  • A degraded flower like this has little need of color and perfume, one would suppose; yet it may be even now slowly perfecting its way toward an ideal of which we see a part only complete.

  • Weed's theory of special adaptation to the common green flesh-flies (Lucilia carnicina), which would naturally be attracted to a flower resembling in color and odor a raw beefsteak of uncertain age.

  • It is greenish in color and has a camphoraceous odor and pungent taste.

  • It resembles iron in color and luster, but is soft, and both malleable and ductile.

  • So called from a fancied resemblance in color and form, of some species.

  • Throughout, the tree is a model of elegant attire, both in color and texture of the investing bark.

  • The closer summer wood is paler in color and harder, the pores almost invisible to the unaided eye.

  • The wood gradually merges from a dark band full of large pores to one paler in color and of denser texture.

  • The wonderful array of color and profusion of bloom, seen in an exhibit of rhododendrons and azaleas, is the most convincing proof of what crossing and careful selection can do in developing races of flowering plants.

  • For weeks the ruddy twigs grow ruddier by the opening of leaf and flower buds; then comes the slow fading of the flowers, when sun and rain seem to work together to bleach them into utter purity of color and texture.

  • Harlequin Snake and Coral-Snake= The harlequin snake and the coral-snake are so similar in color and in habits, one description for both will answer our purpose.

  • The fruit is purplish in color and is free from all prickles.

  • Other figures in adjoining boxes are mere patches of color and of light and shade, telling, nevertheless, as personalities so acutely are the individual values perceived and discriminated.

  • But the mixture of opaque color at once implies that portions of the design itself were executed with the varnish for a vehicle, and therefore that the varnish had been entirely changed both in color and consistence.

  • The eminent value of the tempera paintings results partly from their delicacy of line, and partly from the purity of color and force of decoration of which the material is capable.

  • Different birds and different parts of the same bird, vary considerably in color and taste.

  • In appearance it closely resembles wheat, although somewhat darker in color and smaller in size.

  • Some of the illustrations in each book are in color and some in black and white.

  • Illustrated with seventy-five full-page plates in color and figures in the text.

  • Some of the pictures are in color and some in black and white.

  • The differences lie in form, color and structure.

  • This interesting form is from our western mountains, and suggests at first a diderma; but the capillitium is entirely unlike that of a diderma in color and structure, and plainly belongs here.

  • Separate, however, from the following also in color and habit.

  • Its borders were rimmed that day with thousands of people on foot and in carriages,--a gay sight, in itself, of color and fashion.

  • It is a fine study of color and effect, and the groupings are admirable; but the whole affair is nearly lost to the mass of spectators.

  • The most exquisite in color and finish is the series painted on the casket made to contain the arm of St. Ursula, and representing the story of her martyrdom.

  • He often felt as if he were entertaining a bird of brilliant tropical plumage in his cabin, as if it had flown thither from glowing southern lands and brought with it sensuous memories of color and fragrance, and wafts of sandalwood.

  • It is only in the silence and light of the desert that men may fully realize that the universe is one, that light is music and music is color and color is fragrance, undifferentiated in the eternal harmony of beauty.

  • But on the third night the storm stilled and in the morning the desert showed herself sparkling like an enchantress, exhibiting all of her marvelous illusions of color and wrapped in a golden garment of sunshine.

  • At Monte Carlo, as we drove through the park that surrounds the white marble gambling palace, we admired the magnificent parterres of flowers, the beds of pansies being especially beautiful in variety of color and size of the flowers.

  • She seems not only to give the richness of color and fulness of contour of the flowers, but to capture for the delight of the beholder the very spiritual essence of them.

  • She has an exquisite sense of color and a rare technique.

  • She works mostly in oils, but has been successful in portraits in pastel; two admirable examples were exhibited in Boston recently, and were favorably noticed for their color and "temperance in the use of high relief.

  • Few men have ever conveyed better the impression of the depth and living quality of an eye, nor have many painters succeeded in giving to every part of their canvas the same qualities of color and brilliancy of execution as he.

  • Outside, the dawn was coming up from the east to meet us--as lovely a dawn as ever broke in rose-color and flame.

  • The Oven-bird, and its near relatives the Water-Thrushes, bear so little resemblance in color and habits to the true Wood Warblers, that one might well think they were members of another family.

  • The student should learn to name the parts of a bird's plumage in order that he may write, as well as understand, descriptions of a bird's color and markings.

  • While it is true that there is a general resemblance in form, in details of color and markings, the two birds are quite unlike, while so far as notes and habits are concerned, few members of the same family differ more.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "color and" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.


    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    brought into; color from; color pattern; color scheme; colored eyes; colored folks; colored glass; colored lights; colored marble; colored paper; colored population; colored ribbons; colored silk; colored soldiers; colored troops; colorless liquid; ere long; free love; holy father; massive gold; overflight and navigation permitted; short distance; sweet heart; though common; what was taking place; yield thee