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Example sentences for "three colours"

  • It has been erroneously stated by Papillon that the large letters at the beginning of each psalm are printed in three colours, red, blue, and purple; and Lambinet has copied the mistake.

  • There are certain sad and aesthetic colours which it might be considered cannot be matched by a mixture of three colours.

  • We will now return to our compounding of three colours to make white.

  • It will be proved by and by that a mixture of three colours, and sometimes of only two colours, be they of the spectrum or of pigments, can produce the impression of white light.

  • A very crucial experiment is to see if we can make white light by the admixture of three colours, for if this can be done it almost follows that any colour can be formed.

  • To make a Spinage Tart of three colours, green, yellow, and white.

  • Cloth, with Special design, also Wrapper in Three Colours; and 2s.

  • Cloth Gilt, over 300 pages, with Wrapper in Three Colours.

  • This was the first book printed at the Kelmscott Press in three colours.

  • This was the second book printed in three colours at the Kelmscott Press.

  • It is printed in three colours, and gives contours at intervals of 10 metres.

  • At the present time compilers of strata maps generally limit themselves to two or three colours, in various shades, with green for the lowlands, brown for the hills and blue for the sea.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "three 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:
    sixteen feet; three acts; three blades; three boys; three branches; three brigades; three cheers; three children; three columns; three companies; three dimensions; three fathoms; three minutes; three pence; three persons; three rows; three sides; three sons; three specimens; three states; three stories; three table; three thousand; three threads; three times round the; three turns