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Example sentences for "tricolor"

Lexicographically close words:
tricksters; tricksy; tricky; triclinic; triclinium; tricolored; tricolour; tricoloured; tricuspid; tricycle
  1. The members of the Committee, each with a tricolor scarf across his breast, have taken their places on the platform.

  2. During this part of our course we were joined by a large group, preceded by a tricolor flag with the inscription, 'Vive l'Assemblée Nationale!

  3. Ben Zoof had an inkling that his master was "up to some other little game," when, just before starting, he asked him privately whether there was a French tricolor among the stores.

  4. And so the French tricolor returned as it had set out--in Ben Zoof's knapsack.

  5. To plant the tricolor upon it, in the name of France, was now the cherished wish of Servadac's heart.

  6. As the door falls a man wearing a tricolor scarf strides by them, and, standing beneath the dismantled lintel, his hands behind him, sweeps the room with a smiling eye.

  7. A man in a tricolor scarf marching in front.

  8. The tricolor cockade and the sentiment of upturned patriotic eyes are the only indications of his being a hero in his teens, a citizen who thought it sweet to die for France.

  9. Huge tricolor streamers now hung from the houses and buildings, while bits of dirty bunting fluttered from the cottages.

  10. Here she hid her identity by entering the harbor flying the tricolor of France and appearing as though she was making a friendly visit.

  11. The ranks at the north door stood aside, and through their opening tottered the aged Ramon Barros Luco in dress suit, the red, white, and blue tricolor of Chile fastened obliquely on his white stiff bosomed shirt.

  12. Two short speeches were made by statesmen; Luco then rose and taking off his tricolor handed it to Sanfuentes who pinned it on himself and changed seats with the former President.

  13. I will cry to him: "Frenchman, it is the tricolor that flies on yonder ship!

  14. Thomas Roch, would you dare to fire upon your country's flag--the tricolor flag?

  15. Union Jack and French tricolor look pretty good; but none of them makes a fellow's blood tingle like the Stars and Stripes; eh, chum?

  16. Maneuvering about for a few minutes in a frantic effort to attract the attention of the unknown ship, the Dewey was finally rewarded by the boom of a gun that was followed almost immediately by the breaking out of the tricolor of France.

  17. Francis had appointed a constitutional ministry, promised a statute, granted an amnesty and engaged to place himself in accord with the King of Sardinia, adopted even the tricolor flag with the royal arms of Bourbon in the centre.

  18. He waved the long proscribed tricolor slowly over the heads of the people.

  19. The white, red and green tricolor was hoisted at Bologna, where, as far as is known, this combination of colours first became a political badge.

  20. He it is whose name a ten years' reign had made synonymous with honour and loyalty; who has always held high the tricolor standard of Italy, who now prepares to unsheath his sword for freedom and independence.

  21. The white cockade and the tricolor were the badges of hostile ranks, still more distinctly marked by costume.

  22. Thus, clad in sober gray, with the tricolor on his red cap and a like decoration on the poodle's collar, he was surely a quaint enough figure.

  23. The mourning emblems on the Strasburg monument in Paris were removed by the excited populace and replaced by the tricolor flag and flowers in token of their joy.

  24. The French tricolor and the star-spangled banner were at the same hour unfurled together from the residence of William G.

  25. But the Chablais is yet intact, nor can our telescopes discover the tricolor banners on the other side of the lake.

  26. Though I am perfectly satisfied that the tricolor Banner will never be erected in the town of Lausanne, yet I am very anxious to hear what becomes of the Armee Montesquiou.

  27. Horace Vernet painted the picture and had the pleasure of putting the first tricolor cockade ostentatiously on the helmet.

  28. Vernet it is but a question of putting on a tricolor cockade, tell him that, although I do not wear M.

  29. Finally," added the painter, "on condition that the soldiers of the Empire and of the Revolution shall wear tricolor cockades.

  30. Arnault with his stories, Talma with his Sylla wig, Horace Vernet with his tricolor cockades, Mademoiselle Duchesnois with what she could.

  31. They weren't aimed at the window where the little red-white-and-green tricolor was flying.

  32. You can see the Martian tricolor behind his force-globe.

  33. His eyes were still fixed on the fluttering tricolor and he whistled very low.

  34. He raised the tricolor banner; guns, swords, and pikes were lowered: "Vive Lamartine!

  35. See how he sneers upon the tricolor banner as he passes.

  36. The tricolor has been, since the March riots, recognized as the color of their opponents.

  37. German tricolor around his body and heading a democratic procession march around the streets, even going so far as to make a foolish speech in which he extolled the glories of the German democratic revolution.

  38. Above them floated the tricolor flag, the blue and the red vividly distinct in the bright sun, which seemed to be reflected, as it were, from a crown of glory at the top of the staff.

  39. His pale face was flushed under the familiar black, three-cornered cocked hat with its tricolor cockade, his gray redingote was buttoned across his breast.

  40. In Montreal the traveler from the States first finds French all but universal, the hardy Tricolor of France flying from more poles than boast British Union Jacks.

  41. I identified them as French by sailing close to one of them so that I could see the tricolor pennant floating out from a cord on the bag.

  42. There was a great dingy common room, with a sanded brick floor, and faded streamers of tricolor paper festooned in curious patterns from the smoky ceiling.

  43. May the French Embassy from this day forward Display the tricolor cockade?

  44. The chases of the great guns swung round in ominous threatening silence, but before they could be fired the Tricolor fluttered down from the flagstaff, and the Verite, helpless for all fighting purposes, had surrendered.

  45. In perfect confidence he led the way in between the Spithead Forts, which also flew the Tricolor and saluted him as he went past.

  46. He took command of the squadron on board the Victor Hugo, and to the amazement of officers and men alike, he ordered the Tricolor to be hoisted.

  47. The tricolor was still the flag of France.

  48. The tricolor which floated from the top of a staff in the Place d'Armes (now Jackson Square) was drawn slowly down and the stars and stripes as slowly raised till the two met midway, when both were saluted by cannon.

  49. He called on all French citizens living in the United States to wear on their hats the French tricolor (blue, white, and red) cockade, and of course all the Republican friends of France did the same and made it their party badge.


  50. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "tricolor" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    banner; banneret; bunting; colorful; colors; crazy; daedal; ensign; flag; harlequin; kaleidoscopic; medley; motley; multicolored; pennant; polychromatic; polychrome; prismatic; shot; spectral; standard; streamer; tricolor; variegated