Sentence examples for colourful robes from inspiring English sources

Zionists, adorned in colourful robes, hold outdoor services all across the city on Sundays.

And in a school classroom, we admire colourful robes made by women in the Thandanani sewing group for sale to visitors and lodges.

The jovial Ade was dressed, as ever, in colourful robes and matching head-gear, and led from the front with his singing and guitar work.

Two Bedouin women wearing colourful robes and black burqas walk past carrying plastic shopping bags and babies with kohl-ringed eyes and yellow henna paste on their faces.

In The Coronation of the Virgin the solemnity and dignity of the holy persons are set off by their voluminous, colourful robes in a composition of exceptional splendour specially fitting for a painting of the Queen of Heaven made to adorn the oratory of the queen of Spain.

There were gods and warriors with rippling muscles, beautiful goddesses and queens dressed in colourful robes and exquisite jewels and demons and scheming villains with their scary rages.

In some ways, Mr Jonathan should have been in a position of weakness at the all-night event in Abuja's Eagle Square, where some 3,500 delegates in colourful traditional robes cast their votes into glass boxes.

And recently, dozens of Buddhist monks and nuns took to the catwalk in colourful silk robes as part of a public relations exercise at Tsukiji Honganji temple in Tokyo.

You'll also need a camera for cliff-side monasteries with football playing monks in saffron robes, colourful yak trains accompanied by local black-eyed urchins and vertiginous swing bridges decorated with fluttering prayer flags.

There is a vast variety of dress in the lines of women, from the provocative and the colourful to the black robes and covered heads of the Islamic faithful.

His three uncles, dressed in smart blue jackets over traditional white robes and wearing colourful turbans, were holding a joint wedding ceremony and party.