Sentence examples for bit of coloured from inspiring English sources

"A SOLDIER will fight long and hard for a bit of coloured ribbon," Napoleon once said.

A tinted moisturizer with SPF--you'll want something that's light and won't clog your pores--and a bit of coloured lip balm are more than enough.

It makes me wonder how many combinations there can be of small bits of coloured cloth.

She was initiated into the pleasures of banging bits of coloured wood together by her mother's spinster sister.

Kaleidoscope, optical device consisting of mirrors that reflect images of bits of coloured glass in a symmetrical geometric design through a viewer.

Shankar, Jadhav, Rayudu, KL Rahul, Pant, Dhoni, Jadeja, Chahal... put them all up on a corkboard and join them with bits of coloured string.

For me it has a very physical intensity - he uses scraps of handmade paper and bits of coloured paper, and his handwriting is quite unique.

Also popular was a competition held in an adjacent meadow to find "wiggly worms" – which were in fact bits of coloured wool.

Here and there, bits of coloured masking tape mark out certain boundaries, but they rehearse in the centre of the room, without any sense of where the audience might be, so that they're not always thinking about being watched.

Like it or not, its use does often go along with "Little Englander" messages, and people shouldn't be ostracised for jokes (even unfunny jokes) around this. Bob Banks Grindleford, Derbyshire Arundhati Roy, writer and peace campaigner, said: "Flags are bits of coloured cloth that governments use first to shrink-wrap people's minds and then as ceremonial shrouds to bury the dead".

Jump to media player In the age of texting, tweeting and social networking, is the idea of getting out a pen and writing on bits of coloured card becoming a little old fashioned?