Sentence examples for patch of colour from inspiring English sources

When the patch of colour at the end was the "same" colour as the number answer, she found this easy.

On a computer screen, they presented her with a problem, such as 5 + 2 =, and followed that with a patch of colour.

It's the patch of colour, a green much brighter than that of the sheep-nibbled turf covering the rest of the slope, that first suggests there might be something worth investigating.

All goldcrests have two black stripes on their heads bordering a brilliant patch of colour, orange on the male and yellow in the female.

For instance, determining a patch of colour as "blue" does not consist in identifying some blue property or some blueness shared by blue things, but in differentiating this patch from the "other," namely from things that are not-blue.

One would never ask what binds together a patch of colour and its shape, because the shape is the shape of the colour patch, and, though the shape of something can change, its shape cannot come away from it, like a separable component.

Odd smears and patches of colour adhere badly to the cellophane and clingfilm.

He used loosely juxtaposed patches of colour, sometimes allowing the prepared canvas to show through.

This went beyond the bounds of what he and his colleagues like Gauguin called "cloisonnism", the inlaying of distinct patches of colour, like enamel, with unambiguous bounding lines.

Her rhythmic, abstract images and patches of colour sway like the train, and give us flashes of the world hurtling by the windows.

The 13-strong cast (11 actors, two musicians) are dressed in pale traditional costumes with bright patches of colour – green, yellow, red.