Sentence examples for drab colour from inspiring English sources

They're a uniform drab colour, with most of the box taken up with the most graphic health warnings.

Characteristics of the flowers themselves include drab colour, large size, sturdiness, bell-shape with wide mouth and, frequently, a powerful rancid or urinelike smell.

Their tasks required them to be inconspicuous, and they were issued green and later other drab colour uniforms.

Although it is one of London's busiest bridges, carrying over 50,000 vehicles per day, its drab colour scheme and minimalist design have led to it being described as "probably the least noteworthy bridge in London".

Here we quantify the degree of variation in bright and drab colour patches in six common and well-studied European passerine birds by implementing current models of avian colour vision [16].

Large numbers of shell species also live in freshwater or on land, but these tend to be less popular with collectors because of their small size or drab colouring.

One of Picasso's principal artistic discoveries on that trip (October December) was colour not the drab colours of the Spanish palette, the black of the shawls of Spanish women, or the ochres and browns of the Spanish landscape but brilliant colour the colour of Vincent van Gogh, of new fashion, of a city celebrating a world's fair.

But the Oasis itself is an explosion of green from the drab colours around it.

Not more than a generation ago most Chinese people wore the same few styles, clothes made in three or four drab colours.

The trailer made it look like a sniffy BBC costume drama your parents might watch on Sunday night, all perfect postures and drab colours.

Its first collection was so bright and colourful and just so different from the drab, earthy colours of the 1950s.