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Example sentences for "different colors"

  • One portion of this building consisted of a large open court, paved with stones of different colors, and divided into several compartments, in which were kept wild beasts, birds of prey, and reptiles.

  • Las Casas tells us they made these feather-fabrics so skillfully that they appeared of different colors according to the direction from which they were viewed.

  • The rainbow is that beautiful semi-circular band or arc of different colors in the clouds during the occurrence of rain in sunshine.

  • A kind of printed cotton cloth, of different colors.

  • Iridescent serge is a variety of worsted dress goods woven with warp and filling of different colors, causing a shimmering or iridescent effect.

  • They may be of the same color or different colors.

  • The largest ones knit from fourteen to eighteen stockings at once, using as many as four threads of different colors in the production of patterns.

  • Cotton cloth, printed with flowers and other devices, in a number of different colors, and often glazed.

  • Most cameos are carved in a material which has layers of different colors, such stones as the onyx and sardonyx, and various kinds of shells, being used.

  • To mark with small squares like a checkerboard, as by crossing stripes of different colors.

  • A glass disk with sectors of different colors may be revolved by any source of power, such as a small electric motor or even a waterwheel turned by the flowing water.

  • Each light is turned on in succession as the frame revolves within the box, and by using globes of different colors, an exceedingly beautiful effect is obtained.

  • Two or three streams of water flowing in different colors make a very pretty display and may be produced by using two or more boxes made up in the same manner.

  • Dainty confectionery, in crimped papers, can be made of small radishes covered with icing of different colors.

  • Then turn your attention to the sea-weeds; mark the thread-like branches of these in different colors, using carnation, brown No.

  • TAR PASTE comes in bottles, and is used to take the color off of tinted backgrounds, in order to leave a clean surface of the china in which to paint the design in different colors.

  • For were not the Dahlias, too, which they had previously visited, of different colors?

  • In a Dahlia bed visited by many bees and comprising about forty-three floral heads of different colors, I covered first seventeen and then eight at 2.

  • To form streaks or stripes in or on; to stripe; to variegate with lines of a different color, or of different colors.

  • To make stripes upon; to form with lines of different colors or textures; to variegate with stripes.

  • Made a ground work of writing ink of different colors by any known means of pen ruling.

  • This book is written in "Indian" ink and possesses magnificently embellished and illuminated letters at the beginning of each Gospel, which are on vellum stained in different colors.

  • Incorporated threads of fibrous materials of different colors or characters into and among the pulp.

  • In several instances where the plastering is broken several successive layers are seen, often in different colors, sometimes separated by a thin black layer deposited by smoke.

  • The exterior of one or two rooms shows several coats of plaster, and different parts of the same walls are of different colors.

  • The finest cloth was manufactured from cotton, a good specimen, of which, showing a pattern woven in different colors, is contained in the collection.

  • Footnote 117: The Thunderers in the Omaha myth have hair of different colors.

  • The Thunder men of the Omaha legend had hair of different colors, the first having white hair, the second red, the third yellow, and the fourth green hair.

  • Below the four zigzag lines (representing the lightnings of different colors) are the prints of bears’ paws.

  • Of or pertaining to the style of work called mosaic; formed by uniting pieces of different colors; variegated; tessellated; also, composed of various materials or ingredients.

  • A growth of minute powdery or webby fungi, whitish or of different colors, found on various diseased or decaying substances.

  • Some have adopted the practice of painting them of different colors, but the reason assigned seems not to be a good one, and experience almost unanimously pronounces in favor of a uniform light color.

  • They should be designated by different colors, either by painting the entire surface of the ball, or by a stripe of the color merely.

  • A very pretty hammock can be made by stringing the warp of different colors, in order to make lengthwise stripes.

  • These rugs are very beautiful, and can be made in an infinite variety through the use of different colors, and by reversing the center and border.

  • By ingenious devices which need not be here described it has been found possible to measure the wave length corresponding to different colors--e.

  • The choice of three combinations in different colors of yarn and silk are offered for this pattern.

  • To obtain the greatest benefit from using this book one should have a Corticelli Color Card, showing the 325 different colors in which Corticelli Filo Silk is made.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "different colors" 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:
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