The phrase "colored like" is correct and usable in written English.
For example, you could say, "The sunrise was colored like a brush of pink and orange."
The night is spent flitting from street corner to late-night pizza shop, brightly colored like flocks of exotic — if risqué — parakeets, sometimes herded along by silently flashing police patrol cars that stalk the street.
How, Pickering demanded of Jefferson, could he praise the French Revolution and refuse support for the rebels on Saint-Domingue because they were "guilty" of having a "skin not colored like our own"?
By Phyllis McGinley The New Yorker, May 18 , 1957P. 30 Tear-shaped and colored like the moon View Article By Miranda Carter By Amos Barshad By Doreen St. Félix By Jia Tolentino.
Over all, "Peter Pan Live!" was exactly what you'd expect: big names, big budget, big sets colored like a Pixar movie, "Ugg-a-Wugg" successfully rejiggered with the help of a Native American consultant, Americans unable to pretend to be British, brilliant songs a bit lost in the dampness of a three-hour production and swooping camerawork and a hangar of elaborate sets.
Hundreds of chairs have been cleared for a sedate mosh pit of carefully screened fans cast to achieve the proper age mix of 18 to 25. Pulsing lights -- colored like giant Life Saver candies -- have been attached to balconies to create the dizzying effect of an outsize electric pinball machine.
It is hollow, fragile, and colored like the cap.
Many dancers wear brightly colored kimono-like yukatas and happi coats (short wraparound garments), but street clothes are fine, too.
Sweep light-colored eyeshadow (like beige) across your upper eyelid to correct skin tone.
They practice their aims on a hand-made, paint-splattered wooden silhouette and frying pans that dangle, rainbow-colored, like imitation Jackson Pollocks.
It is an immaculate place with homes that are pastel-colored, like Mentos, and as low profile as its residents seek to be.
The dashboard is resolutely General Motors, a plain of textured plastic that could have been smooth and body-colored (like the console) to continue the nostalgia theme.
