Sentence examples for coloured wings from inspiring English sources

In two families the male hovers in front of the female while displaying his brightly coloured wings, abdomen, or legs, sometimes in combination.

The paperback The Fatal Englishman has a flamboyant cover, rather dated already, of an Icarus figure with ample, coloured wings and triple, ecstatic face.

Nor do they fly about flashing brilliantly coloured wings in the sunshine...The collectors of fleas and lice can be counted on the fingers of one hand!" Yet she loved them.

Distributed throughout the tropical forests of central and southern America, they signal their distastefulness to predators through brightly coloured wings.

Get light coloured wings.

It works well if you have a swarm of faeries, perhaps with different coloured wings, or have a group of nice faeries and dark faeries.

This time last week you'd see them by every set of traffic lights, mostly in the yellow of Bafana Bafana, selling vuvuzelas, shirts, papers, even South Africa coloured wing mirror warmers.

The Chinese (and later, Japanese) version of the Buddhist temple tends to be a one-story building of richly carved, painted, or tiled timber constructed around an atrium used for worship, although pagodas, which were sometimes built as temples, were towering stacks of brightly coloured, wing-roofed stories over a small shrine.

Amazing grasshoppers, with brightly-coloured wings: red, orange, turquoise blue.

The large adults have dull-coloured wings and lack a proboscis (feeding organ).

P. rapae has white or cream-coloured wings with small black dots and lays its eggs singly on leaves.