Sentence examples for colourful occasion from inspiring English sources

Dockers, miners and power workers have given way to white-collar workers, civil servants and, on one colourful occasion, huntsmen.

Anger was sparked among the US's Mexican-American community, for whom the Dia de los Muertos festival is a popular and colourful occasion on which to remember and honour ancestors.

"The work will be a fitting artistic impression capturing the joyous and colourful occasion of the Thames jubilee flotilla".

These are colourful occasions.

With the former Wales flanker Kingsley Jones in the Russian camp as team director and Eddie O'Sullivan guiding the USA, it promises to be a colourful, evocative occasion.

Her relationship with Saul, a Buddhist monk, is especially remarkable: "We must have made an odd sight – companions separated by more than fifty years, an elderly spinster in a tweed skirt and stout shoes and a tall weather-beaten Buddhist in his colourful garments, on occasion carrying a tall shepherd's crook with a fluttering multi-coloured pennant".

They have retained their use of the Albanian language, the Greek Orthodox rite in their churches, and, on occasion, their colourful national costumes.

New types and shapes of cheeses emerge from time to time, such as a cute pig-shaped cheese, only made on special occasions, and giant colourful sandwiches.

He has recently given a series of colourful TV interviews – inelegantly suggesting, on several occasions, that he may be the biological father of the singer's children.

Or maybe Mourinho recognised that the sheer magnitude of Tuesday's game means the occasion does not need even any of his colourful embellishments to add to the sense of expectation.

Edith Piaf had a song for every occasion, most of which mirrored the drama of her colourful life.