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Example sentences for "colored"

Lexicographically close words:
color; colorable; coloration; coloratura; colore; colores; colorful; colori; coloribus; colorific
  1. With a new strain of pure, gentle, industrious, leather colored Italian bees, their love for beekeeping should receive a new impetus, leading them to better equipment and better management.

  2. All queens sent out are bred from the leather colored Italian breeding queens of choicest stock obtainable.

  3. Mr. Moore: The onion has two different flies, one which is black in color, with light colored bands across the wings, and that one passes the winter as a larva in the old onions left in the field.

  4. They are better colored than mine, most of them are like this (indicating).

  5. If a homestead anywhere in that state is not cozily protected by bright colored evergreens it is not because there is any difficulty in getting trees that will thrive in that soil.

  6. The type is oval with a pinkish or flesh colored skin.

  7. The fruit was clean, well colored and up to size.

  8. There can be no objection, however, to your putting the colored side of the apple up.

  9. In buying plants, select stocky, compact, dark colored ones in preference to very large ones.

  10. The large Juneberry, probably Amelanchier Canadensis, was a very attractive object in April, when its purple-colored young leaves contrasted with its white bloom.

  11. Last summer a wonderful effect was achieved by putting dark blue and mahogany-colored pansies beside Jacquesiana and Othello iris, this repeating the color and texture in different plants.

  12. The town was gay with many colored posters, showing fierce animals wandering together over vast treeless plains, and many-hued lithographs of men risking their lives on the high trapeze.

  13. Now he's shaved off de whiskers an' colored his moustache, but I knowed him de minute I set me peepers on him.

  14. Stephanus heard no more; overpowered by this dazzling vision of happiness, he had fallen back on one of the rose-colored seats.

  15. Besides, had not Cornelia, as she thought, the most particular reasons for seeing the whole world rose-colored to-day?

  16. Claudia colored deeply, and involuntarily drew the embroidered curtain, as if she feared that the litter-bearers might read her secret in her face.

  17. His small and muscular form was clothed in gaily-colored scraps of raiment, and his face was painted in strong colors.

  18. Thousands of colored lamps hung in long festoons from tree to tree.

  19. Claudia colored deeply; she recognized her own song--that impassioned address to the Spring, which she had sung the first evening in the peristyle.

  20. Stephanus breathed hard; the empress sank on to a rose-colored couch, and beckoned him to approach.

  21. About a hundred yards farther on a small circular clearing opened to their right; the entrance to it was decorated with gold-colored festoons.

  22. The eyes of the master and the slave met, and the master colored more deeply, while the slave laughed to himself with a certain satisfaction.

  23. I bought all he had that day, and gave them to some colored children on my way home, and told him to come to our house and get an old coat Mamma was waiting to get rid of.

  24. Anna colored modestly, but surprised her friends by the composure with which she related her little story, quite as if used to public speaking.

  25. The map was in the King's possession, and descended from father to son, a curious old paper, with two of the hidden rooms marked off in colored inks as closed.

  26. He was a dignified person in a plum-colored livery, because the King considered black gloomy for a child.

  27. She glanced up, and catching his eyes, colored faintly.

  28. The colored race being here, I assume that its education, with the probabilities this involves of its elevation, is a duty as well as a necessity.

  29. I should say that the education of the colored race in America should be fundamental.

  30. Brownie, who in his humble station, was so steadfast and sensible, had his poor head completely turned by the vision of a new bright-colored jacket.

  31. The recollection colored his first remark, after they had clambered into the carryall, and persuaded Dobbin to resume his leisurely trot.

  32. He remembered to have noted how perfectly her dun-colored dress had harmonized with the environment, so much so, that, but for the patch of red in her hat, he might have passed her as a part of the inanimate nature of the beach.

  33. I thought it was to be a little dinner," said Miss Standish, looking with some disapproval at the bare shoulders rising above the billowy ruffles of rose-colored chiffon.

  34. It is often a curious experience in the contrasts of life for a girl to see herself from the family point of view, after catching the rose-colored reflections which the admiration of an outsider throws upon her character.

  35. At this Winifred colored up as if they hadn't been her own very words.

  36. Then, alone as he was, he colored to the temples, and gave a little gasp.

  37. At the next envelope she colored hotly, for she recognized the handwriting instantly.

  38. Brady colored a little, but he stood his ground manfully.

  39. He had already arrived at conclusions in respect of the rights of the colored people "to choose their own dwelling place," and against the iniquity of their expatriation, which cut directly at the roots of the colonization scheme.

  40. Presently there came to her a colored girl who was thirsting for an education such as the Canterbury Boarding School for young ladies was dispensing to white girls.

  41. It was expected that a sufficient number of such pupils could be obtained from well-to-do colored families in cities like Boston, Providence, and New York to assure the financial success of the enterprise.

  42. The state of panic which it created among the colored people in the free States will form, if ever written down, one of the most heartrending chapters in human history.

  43. This was a most outrageous proceeding, outrageous to the colored men who were thus deprived of their liberty, outrageous also to the owners of the vessels who were deprived of the service of their employés.

  44. This was Miss Crandall's opportunity to do something for the colored people, and she admitted the girl to her classes.

  45. To a colored man belongs the high honor of having been the courier avant of the slavery agitation.

  46. The excitement and the perils of this period were not confined to the colored people.

  47. He was fresh from the city which held the dust of Fanny Garrison, who had once written to her boy in Newburyport, how the good God had cared for her in the person of a colored woman.

  48. There are colored men and women, young men and young ladies, in that city, who have few superiors in refinement, in moral worth, and in all that makes the human character worthy of admiration and praise.

  49. Christian fellowship and equality with a colored member, did actually cut the floor from under the colored member's pew!

  50. It went the whole length of the humanity of the colored race, and all that that implied.

  51. That God had made of one blood all nations of men, St. Paul had taught, but the American church had with one accord in practice drawn the line at the poor despised colored man.

  52. The cream-colored lady still had the chain hanging upon her, and Cumnor's problem was suddenly solved.

  53. Again the sharp cactus and the sand turned beautiful, and violet floated among the mountains, and rose-colored orange in the sky above them.

  54. Drylyn's relations with the Gazelle were colored with sentiment.

  55. The sun crossed the sky, bringing the many-colored evening, and Arizona was no longer terrible, but once more infinitely sad.

  56. His leggings were of the same stuff, and were also gayly decorated with colored porcupine quills deftly woven in them.

  57. As Colonel Keogh's company was part of it, he must return to Fort Harker immediately, and another detachment of colored infantry were on their way to take its place on the Elkhorn.

  58. Their simple table was improvised out of the end gates of two of the wagons, and the cook, a colored soldier, had managed to provide an excellent meal, and as Joe was very hungry, he did ample justice to it.

  59. The pendent branches waved along the fluid glades until every vista seemed to break through half-lucent ranks of many-colored drooping silken pennons.

  60. On every side I beheld beautiful inorganic forms, of unknown texture, and colored with the most enchanting hues.

  61. It approached, flitting behind the gauzy, colored veils of cloud-foliage, for seconds dimly revealed, then vanished.

  62. There was no sign of life save brilliant plumaged birds flitting about, and bright colored butterflies glancing in the sunshine.

  63. Pulls large pair of colored glasses from his pocket.

  64. Of course she was soon excused, and next Charlotte, the colored servant, was called.

  65. From these rose-colored dreams I was suddenly recalled to the dreadful realities of the occasion by hearing myself summoned as a witness.

  66. Laura informed me that there was no one else in the Pembroke household except one servant, a young colored woman.

  67. It seemed to me distinctly mean and petty to wrest these intimate revelations from the colored woman.

  68. Although I intended to think over the legal aspects and the significant facts of the case I had undertaken, I found myself instead indulging in rose-colored dreams of what might happen in the future.

  69. Moreover, George Lawrence had grasped the colored woman by the arm, and was shaking her into a submissive silence, threatening dire punishment, unless she ceased her random talk.

  70. But you know colored people are as transparent as children, and by talking in a roundabout way I discovered that she suspects Janet, only because she can't see any other solution of the mystery.

  71. Also, one servant was kept, usually a colored woman.

  72. And what that fool colored woman said, was true; Uncle Robert had threatened to disinherit Janet if she persisted in refusing Leroy.

  73. Therefore, you see, we cannot suspect him, notwithstanding the coincidence of the violet-colored glass.

  74. I have never seen these pins with violet-colored heads used for any other purpose, though it is not impossible that they may be.

  75. Sleep at length came over me; and when I awoke, the day seemed breaking, for a faint gray tint stole through a stained-glass window, and fell in many colored patches upon the pavement.

  76. A slight hectic flush colored his pale cheek, his lip trembled, he essayed to speak, but could not.

  77. Mr. Swift, unconscious of the thousands that were standing in their seats to look at him, and of the general buzz of interest, tore open the colored envelope with reportorial haste, and read as follows.

  78. My two colored men will get all supplies.

  79. One of the Colonel's faithful colored sailors was sent to the wheel.

  80. These square, brightly colored sails gave the boats a gay appearance which was increased by the round shields which were hung outside the gunwale and which were also painted red, black, or white.

  81. I long to make you some wreaths as beautiful as this necklace with all its colored shells.

  82. Guy went back to England and heard that a terrible dun-colored cow had appeared in Warwickshire.

  83. Up swung the arm of the hero, and dealt a mighty blow to the grisly, many-colored beast.

  84. When they perform on the stage of a theater, in the blaze of colored fires, it must be a fine and fascinating spectacle.

  85. These mansions stand in the center of large grounds, and rise, garlanded with roses, out of the midst of swelling masses of shining green foliage and many- colored blossoms.

  86. I have a colored acquaintance who earns his living by odd jobs and heavy manual labor.

  87. The riders dress in full jockey costumes of bright-colored silks, satins, and velvets.

  88. I learned it from one of the most unostentatious of men--the colored coachman of a friend of mine, who lives three miles from town.

  89. There was an occasional alligator swimming comfortably along in the canal, and an occasional picturesque colored person on the bank, flinging his statue-rigid reflection upon the still water and watching for a bite.

  90. I led the way through the hall, picking up a rose-colored parasol of Mrs. Rossiter's as we passed the umbrella-stand.

  91. It was something with which I was so little concerned that I colored with embarrassment at having betrayed so much futile curiosity.

  92. The house itself had been built piecemeal, and was now a low, rambling succession of pavilions or corps de logis, to which a series of rose-colored awnings gave the only unifying principle.

  93. The colored man with the flashing teeth came up on the broad grin, showing them.

  94. Then a colored porter, as like to my own as one pea to another, came puffing his way in, dragging valises and other impedimenta, and followed by an old gentleman and his wife.

  95. I think she often sighed for pretty papers and cretonnes, for Sevres and colored prints, but she took her tapestries and old masters and majolica as decreed by a power she couldn't question.

  96. My instructions were so far carried out successfully that, with a colored porter wearing a red cap to precede me, I was the first to pass the barrier leading to the train, and the first to take my seat in the long, narrow parlor-car.

  97. Mr. Brokenshire advanced and stood under the many-colored Oriental hall lantern.

  98. Life, like a dome of many-colored glass, Stains the white radiance of eternity.

  99. Make the following statements more concrete: In front of our house was a tree that at a certain season of the year displayed highly colored foliage.

  100. Pushing aside some curtains of brightly-colored seaweed he led them into the Presence Chamber.

  101. Exquisite shells were strewn about, and brightly-colored anemones clung to the rocks on every side, while all kinds of oddly-shaped fishes swam about, peering at the children curiously as they passed.

  102. Marjorie was enraptured at the sight of the beautifully-arranged gardens, in which brightly-colored anemones took the place of flowers.

  103. Why, you might have taken a dozen pairs of colored cotton gloves, and no one would have minded in the least; but best white kid--oh!

  104. Her corn-colored ringlets hung gaily about her face.

  105. Lester looked up, and Jennie colored and arose.

  106. Jennie colored furiously, unable to speak a word.

  107. Neither college nor village has library opportunities for colored people, and so the supply at Kent Home was made available to those outside.

  108. A number of the Boards maintain hospitals providing care for the sick Negroes and the training of colored girls as nurses for their own people.

  109. I spent my time, therefore, over my peep show and my puppet theatre, and my greatest happiness consisted in collecting bright colored pieces of cloth and silk, which I cut out myself and sewed.

  110. The streets in S÷dermalm ascend by flights of wooden steps up from the M lar lake, which is all active with smoking steam-vessels, and with boats rowed by women in gay-colored dresses.

  111. Hetty looked him full in the face, and colored scarlet, before she began to speak.


  112. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "colored" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    adorned; affected; apocryphal; apparent; artificial; assumed; bastard; befrilled; biased; black; bogus; chauvinistic; colored; counterfeit; dark; decorated; deep; distorted; doctrinaire; dogmatic; dummy; embellished; embroidered; fake; falsified; fancy; feigned; festooned; fictitious; figurative; figured; florid; flowery; full; garbled; gilded; illegitimate; imbued; imitation; interested; jaundiced; lush; luxuriant; meretricious; mock; opinionated; ornate; ostensible; overloaded; partial; partisan; perverted; phony; pinchbeck; plausible; prejudiced; prepossessed; pretended; pseudo; purple; quasi; queer; seeming; sensational; sham; shoddy; simulated; specious; spurious; stained; supposititious; swayed; tin; tinsel; twisted; unauthentic; unnatural; unreal; warped


    Some related collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    colored children; colored citizens; colored eyes; colored flowers; colored folks; colored glass; colored hair; colored lights; colored marble; colored paper; colored people; colored person; colored persons; colored population; colored ribbons; colored satin; colored school; colored silk; colored soldiers; colored troops; colored woman; colored women