Sentence examples for pots of colour from inspiring English sources

You'll find tables and chairs at the foot of ancient trees, pots of colour, and sofas and armchairs on a shaded terrace.

I spent four years at art college mixing pots of colour, and found that if you put gouache on your lips with bit of Vaseline, you can get quite a good red.

While they sounded wonderful in theory – little pots of colour that could be smudged hastily on to cheeks and lips to give the face an effortless-looking polish and flush of good health – I felt that generally (Stila and Becca being the exceptions), they delivered poorly on the lip end of the bargain.

It is fitting, then, that the colour that has boomed this decade – which has proved appealing to so many people in so many ways – is a messy, muddy melting-pot of a colour; a colour that goes with anything, is available in multiple shades and helps bring other, more adventurous colours to life.

Then we'd have a massive delivery of household paints, which we'd mix into smaller pots of whatever colours we needed.

This (at £49) contains generous sample pots of bold, interesting nail colour (frankly, they're sufficiently big and fancy to pick three you don't like and can pass on as a Christmas present), treatment products, a good crystal nail file, some lovely nail art and a full-size bottle of festive, glittery red polish not available elsewhere.

1. Block Sketch Desk Tidy: £24, redcandy.co.uk Designed to look like a 3D sketch (hence the name), this minimalist plated steel pen pot will add a bit of colour and retro appeal to your desk.

This was the Victorian critic John Ruskin's nightmare when he denounced Whistler's Falling Rocket with its abstract wisps of colour as a pot of paint flung in the face of the public.

Opt for fruit trees on dwarfing rootstocks, and choose lightweight plastic pots that can be sanded and painted to your choice of colour.

Our much celebrated melting pot of diversity makes for great political sound bites and subway poster campaigns, but the day to day reality for many people of colour is lot closer to this New Brunswick man's recent experience.

Kay has been a mainstay on Canadian news panels to offer "alternative" opinions to those of people of colour, he's a professional pot-stirrer (and Twitter blocker) and I predict it's only going to get worse.