Sentence examples for colourful words from inspiring English sources

It uses all parts of speech, and older, colourful words are pressed into service.

Tony Shalhoub inherits the house of dead uncle F Murray Abraham, but along with the fixtures and fittings comes a host of ghosts: in the colourful words of one character, this is where "the ectoplasmic shit hits the fan".

It's a word I've heard [Martin] use a lot – not saying it's right for when I did it in the voicemail, but there are a lot of colourful words thrown around in the locker room that we don't use in everyday life".

The lesson explains a lot of key computing vocabulary that could be used to create a colourful word wall.

This clear, colourful word mat uses images and text to help pupils spell key terms such as telescope, scientist and astronaut.

Their colourful vocabulary – words such as "clunge", "bus-w**ker" and "fwiend" – has entered the teenage lexicon and, over three series, it has built a huge fanbase.

He has a penchant for colourful metaphors: words are "sweets in the mouth of sound"; a woman's eyes are "fishes swimming in a puddle of tears"; his heart is "an egg bumping against the side of a pan of boiling water".

I have translated your colourful journalistic words into dry bureaucrat speech, garnished it with some mustard from my own kitchen and … sent it off in the shape of a memorandum to the Secretary of State.

No he's not - it was a colourful use of words and I am sure he would explain that".

Normally, slang has both a high birth and death rate in the dominant culture, and excessive use tends to dull the lustre of even the most colourful and descriptive words and phrases.

According to Wikipedia it's a "phenomenon in which stimulation of one sensory or cognitive pathway leads to automatic, involuntary experiences in a second pathway" so that noises may conjure colourful visions or words might have a flavour.