Sentence examples for drain colour from inspiring English sources
The grey bits feel coarse, and they drain colour from my face.
I gave up wasting time and money on makeup in my twenties and only use it if going on stage under lights that drain colour.
Sunny days in January still have their fleeting hints of spring curtailed abruptly by a half-light of faded, drained colour.
The morning brought better weather, although sharp showers and dark bands of cloud shadow still hurried across the landscape, with the sudden shade draining colour from the scene.
That moment in the year had arrived when a longing for spring set in but when winter, which drained colour from the landscape, still refused to relent.
In his final years De Quincey's fame was eclipsed only by the scale of his debts, which eventually drained colour and intensity out of every other aspect of his life.
It comes from the drained colour palette of blues and khaki and sand, from their unnerving proximity to the camera, and therefore to us; from their youthfulness, their good looks, their gritty toughness, their glamour.
The Pacific also looks as though it will follow the same visual style of its predecessors – harsh, drained colour palette and shaky camerawork, and will screen in high definition too.
We approached them cautiously because video, in particular, can drain the colour out of live performances.
Ask any mental health professional currently working in the NHS about "management" and expect their face to drain of colour.
