Sentence examples for favourite shade from inspiring English sources

Even now, when I cross my own lips with my favourite shade of red, an image of his fine-bristle paintbrush flashes through me.

It's all quite dark, always our favourite shade: "Oh God, I think I'm dying," goes the opening line to A Horse is Not a Home.

Last month US clothing retailer J Crew released photos showing the company's president, Jenna Lyons, painting her 5-year-old child's toenails their favourite shade of hot pink.

It's also the colour of amethysts (crystals often appear in Vogue), a favourite shade of the architect Frank Lloyd Wright, was often worn by Hillary Clinton (which also suggests it is the unofficial colour of centrists) and reminds us of Prince.

Colours, similarly, were a little girl's favourite shades - from gold, to pink to silver, and back again.

There is a lithograph Ellsworth Kelly made in 1964 called Green (IV.4. Green; Vert Série IV, No. 4) that is one of my favourite pieces of art and, consequently, one of my favourite shades of green.

Betfair currently rates Voigt as the favourite, a shade below 3-1, with Flecha 3.1-1 and Burghardt 7.4-1.

Indeed, these names have become so stupid that they're almost impossible to satirise, although Will Ferrell and Tina Fey have given it a good go: Jenna's favourite lipstick shade on Fey's sitcom 30 Rock is, rather memorably, Tiger Orgasm.

Among my favourite rose shades for darker tones is Kate Moss for Rimmel London's Dark Nude (48) (£5.48).

Of the cafe/bars Peixe e Petiscos is my favourite – there's shade, and you're never more than a few seconds away from a misted jug of sangria.

Prabal Gurung went so far as to make the case for favourite Nana-soap-shade, lavender.