Sentence examples for colourful from inspiring English sources

It is homely yet chic, with Tasmanian oak flooring, café latte-coloured walls and a series of colourful photographs taken by one of the owners.

Unlike many parts of the country where women have shed traditional regional attire, the women of Qeshm and Hormuz mostly wear the colourful bandari pants, loose at the top and tight at the bottom with vibrant embroidery.

From creative street art to colourful campaign buses and choir singing, our readers have documented the Irish mood ahead of the referendum.

The 'canary' yellow with green side panels somehow made an even greater sight of the brawny specimens donning Australian caps (and also provided a colourful back-drop to the underarm incident, it must be said), while powder blue, maroon, lime green and beige surely reached their zenith.

This small but beautifully designed resort winds its way through colourful flowerbeds, and looks out over rice paddies.

Yanis Varoufakis, its colourful finance minister, said last week that Greece "went from a Ponzi scheme of unsustainable borrowing before the crisis to a scheme of Ponzi austerity after it".

The southern islands fringe the Sir Francis Drake Channel, which teems with coral reefs, colourful fish and turtles.

Kayaking, wind surfing, sailing, tennis, gymnasium - they're all there, and we were only 10 minutes from the capital, St John's, a really sweet little place with a lovely, colourful market.

Even as he received red carpet treatment in Beijing last month, lauded by China as an "old friend" and "renowned leader", Robert Mugabe was in danger of being upstaged by a colourful, charismatic presence at his side.

It kicks off in at 2am on New Year's Day, seeing in the first light with a colourful (and very loud) parade, featuring dancers peacocking about in elaborate costumes, moving to the rhythm of goatskin drums, cowbells and whistles.

He probably feels that, in context, we are churlish to get upset at this colourful, Lannisterish little government he has got together for the handover.