Sentence examples for off colours from inspiring English sources

These are clothes with a new sense of proportion, an old-meets-new feeling of poise that draws on old-fashioned childrenswear: crumpled pleats in place of body-hugging fabrics, balloon skirts in place of snake hips, rich but slightly "off" colours, like a cocktail dress in mustardy bronze.

Too many others were off colour.

"He could be a little bit off colour.

The Brumbies, in contrast, looked off colour in a surprise loss to the Force last week.

Feste has form for eating string and he was off colour and distressed.

Stan was only 52 when he returned early from work, feeling off colour.

This will be no occasion for players who are off colour.

DM: No. [Laughter] ML: Derek, it must be said, is a little off colour today, he was telling me before we came out.

Marvellous Off colour Stylists tell us that the spring collections' acid oranges and vibrant fuschias are uplifting and help beat the credit-crunch gloom.

For the only time in the last month or so the England bowling that had mined the mother lode at Edgbaston and Trent Bridge was off colour.

Michael Aylwin Match report: South Africa 34-16 Scotland In the end Scotland did well to look off colour and draw to within seven points of the Springboks with an hour gone.