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Example sentences for "many colors"

  • The walls of the ditch were brilliant with yellow banks of sulphur and with lava and pumice-stone of many colors.

  • He rises and faces the finely wrought figures of the Saviour and the malefactors uplifted upon their crosses behind the altar, and bright with a metallic lustre of many colors.

  • So when Joseph drew near they seized him, stripped him of his coat of many colors, and cast him into a pit, and left him there alone.

  • He wore the beautiful coat of many colors, and the people often stopped to look at the lad, with his comely face and beautiful coat.

  • When the brothers went home they took the coat of many colors to the old father, and said: "Is not this thy son's coat which we found?

  • Then the Crow set to work to make himself a coat of many colors, like Joseph's.

  • He is a very Joseph of birds in his coat of many colors, and folk often wonder how he came to have feathers so much more gorgeous than his kindred.

  • And lo, what she carried in her beak twinkled and trembled and shone in many colors, like a drop of dew on a velvet flower-cheek.

  • Many of the varieties will produce a good percentage of flowers as double as roses and of many colors.

  • The flowers, which are borne in profusion, are of many colors, and rival in markings most other annuals.

  • Tender annuals, producing both single and double flowers of many colors.

  • A lady stopping at the Iturbide purchased a bird of many colors, marvelous to look at, which she had been assured by the itinerant vender would sing gloriously as soon as it became acquainted with its new home.

  • For sail cloth, there was nothing but shreds and rags and tatters of canvas patched together so that each mast-arm looked like Joseph's coat of many colors.

  • It was a time when men wore patriotic coats of many colors.

  • There was a moral; but it wore a coat of many colors.

  • Where this sandstone is a conglomerate, a paving of pebbles has been left,--a mosaic of many colors, polished by the drifting sands and glistening in the sunlight.

  • These cliffs are composed of sand stones, limestones, and shales, of many colors.

  • The Tarascos fought with great courage to the sound of numerous horns and sea-shells, and carried to battle banners made of feathers of many colors.

  • These insignia were only used in war; at court all military officers wore the tlachquauhyo, a dress of many colors.

  • Cotton grew of many colors, so that there was no need to dye it, and the very birds sang more sweetly than they have ever sung since.

  • How strange it must be," the girl laughed, "to see people with hair of so many colors!

  • They painted the face and all exposed parts of the body in many colors, using white or yellow with black and red, covering themselves from the waist upward with a variety of designs and figures.

  • On the first day of the year they plant in the ground a tall pole, to which are tied long ribbons of many colors.

  • Married men and women wear straw hats with high pointed crowns and broad turned-up rims; near the top is a narrow and handsomely woven band of many colors, with long tassels.

  • Size 15 x 11 inches; bound in stiff cardboard handsomely decorated; printed throughout in many colors.

  • The pictures, all full page, are beautifully reproduced in many colors, each book containing fifteen pictures and a decorated title page.

  • On the homeward passage, when we visited Rio Janeiro for the second time, it was found to be rife with politics; but like Joseph's coat, of so many colors as to be confusing to a foreigner.

  • Her head was decked with a bandanna kerchief of many colors, her flat nose and protruding lips indicating close African relationship.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "many 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:
    could play; drilling machine; increased secretion; many another; many banks; many bees; many critics; many difficulties; many diseases; many districts; many fields; many geologists; many have; many horses; many islands; many kinds; many lands; many languages; many quarters; many servants; many subjects; many thousands; many tribes; many wives; many women; many words