Sentence examples for colorful origin from inspiring English sources

Of the hot dog's many colorful origin stories, one of my favorites has it that a sports cartoonist named Tad Dorgan coined the name "hot dog" in a cartoon he drew, in 1901, after seeing an entrepreneurial food vender serve up a hot "dachshund" sausage to the crowd at a New York Giants baseball game.

Fortuitously for Magill, the word has colorful origins: its first recorded English use was in 1533 by the Protestant reformer John Frith, shortly before being burned at the stake for asserting the primacy of individual conscience over church dogma.

The colorful ad says nothing about their origin.

Valerian V. Dolja, Department of Botany and Plant Pathology, Oregon State University Cordley Hall 2082, Corvallis, OR This incisive study from Aravind's shop uses cutting-edge bioinformatics analyses to add yet another colorful piece to a jigsaw puzzle of the early life origins and evolution.

His accounts of the human and social effects of epidemic diseases and the origins of public health are full of lively anecdotes and colorful detail.

Made between 2013 and 2015, and collected in a book published this month by Thames & Hudson, the pictures in the project form a colorful encyclopedia that displays figures of Japanese custom strangely removed from the world of their origin.

Too colorful.

Colorful auroras?

The new bills are somewhat more colorful than current bills, but what has taken some Israelis aback is that all the new figureheads on them are Ashkenazi — that is, Jews of European origin.

It was colorful.

"Nigredo" was colorful, too.