Sentence examples for exact colours from inspiring English sources
Number plates and horses reference Rangers and Celtic players, while two warring gangs sport the exact colours of the rival Edinburgh teams – Heart of Midlothian and Hibernian.
The exact colours used for the German flag were not officially defined at the time of the flag's adoption and have changed since then.
It is, in fact, the exact colour of Fuji film.
Think Belisha beacon, think of the orange ball and you have the exact colour.
The exact colour was described by a friend of Turner, rather vaguely, as "Indian red, neither pale nor dark".
The big cats are masters of disguise, however, and are cunningly the exact colour of the sandy soil and grass.
He will go after the exact colour of denim, indicating that it obviously matters to him, and then give the sitter a face the colour of seared tuna.
But then at the same time you can push back and not put on the exact colour-by-numbers string section".
And the writing, at its best, is wonderfully allusive – a golden cloud of summer pollen is as fecund and generative as the wind Plato thought could impregnate horses – and precise, often finding all manner of surprising likenesses: dragonflies "the size of kitchen matches" cruise the air; cut grass is baled in blue plastic "the exact colour of surgical scrubs".
What it doesn't say is what to do if it persists in boiling over, while singularly failing to caramelise – as with Claire's recipe, with a pan packed full of fruit, it's rather difficult to assess the exact colour of the liquid beneath.
