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Example sentences for "many colours"

  • They wear also rich daggers, ornamented with silken tassels of many colours, and very handsome swords.

  • Seizing him roughly, they stripped him of his coat of many colours, and leading him to a deep hole in the ground called a pit, they pushed him in.

  • He was dressed in his favourite coat of many colours, protected by his long cloak, while a bright kerchief covered his head, and a spear and club hung at his saddle.

  • Our large party landing caused quite a flutter amongst the inhabitants, some of whom were most picturesque, the women with bright red and yellow aprons, white head shawls embroidered in many colours, blue skirts and red stockings.

  • Inside were quaint mural frescoes of curious old men riding stags or winged dragons painted in many colours.

  • Never have I seen a lake with so many colours in it.

  • In character they much resembled Tirolese houses except for the elaborate carving over the doors and windows and the many colours in which they were painted.

  • Already the trees had donned their autumn coats of many colours; and the beauteous maple-leaves, matchless in outline as in hue, began to turn crimson and gold.

  • No glimmer even of distant lake on the horizon; no brown spots of clearing; no variety, save the autumn coat of many colours, contrasted with sombre patches of pine.

  • I am come in search of the Bird of Truth, and I have to carry the Water of Many Colours to the witch of the tower.

  • These warriors had their faces painted of many colours, and were all adorned with plumes of feathers.

  • Within a large medallion is seen a herald riding on a griffin; the ground is covered by scale patterns and scrolls of many colours.

  • If he was proud of his coat of many colours, it was only because it was a gift from his father.

  • Did he not, indeed, know that coat of many colours?

  • While the brothers wore the ordinary shepherd clothing, Joseph had a beautiful coat of many colours.

  • Along the banks near water thousands of butterflies are seen of many colours, particularly where the ground is moist they settle to suck.

  • There was a crowd of many colours on the well-made road which wanders up through orchards to the village and ends on the meydân before the castle gate.

  • He wore an old blue shirt, and on his head a kind of turban, but of many colours and, unlike any I had ever seen upon the natives of the country, with an end or streamer hanging loose upon one side.

  • Pansy, many colours; six inches; from early spring until November, if kept well cut.

  • Phlox Drummondii, many colours; one foot; blooms July, August and September if not allowed to seed.

  • Phlox Drummondii grows about six or eight inches high, and comes in many colours.

  • These come in many colours, but I grow only the tall, ragged, blue variety.

  • A lighted torch in the hand Is no unpleasant object here--one's breath Floats round the flame, and makes as many colours 25 As the thin clouds that travel near the moon.

  • A lighted torch in the hand Is no unpleasant object here--one's breath Floats round the flame, and makes as many colours As the thin clouds that travel near the moon.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "many colours" 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:
    fair start; many distinct; many districts; many enemies; many fishes; many friends; many girls; many good; many hands; many hundred; many instances; many islands; many minds; many nations; many occasions; many others; many passages; many places; many plants; many tears; many thousand; many ways; many were; many writers; part because; political questions