Sentence examples for telling colour from inspiring English sources
(During these trips there was some suspense, in the mornings, over who would be asked to sit for a painting: "Now and then," a friend wrote, "groups of his friends posed for him with gaily colored shawls and sunshades so arranged as to make, with rocks and distant mountains, telling colour schemes").
At the desk I have to scan my membership card before being handed a brightly coloured wristband (different colours are used at random during the week, so there is no way of telling which colour will be used on any given day).
For some while he had been looking for a way to reinvent himself: how better to smash the image of the classical actor and ageing romantic lead than by crooning and hoofing and telling off-colour jokes?
It was during her time at the Continental Baths that Midler began to develop her bawdy stage persona, The Divine Miss M, performing songs from a variety of genres and appearing in sometimes outrageous costumes while telling off-colour jokes between songs.
His collaboration with Blow was celebrated with the Design Museum's When Philip Met Isabella exhibition, which has toured the world.JS 32 (up 33) Paul O'Grady, Television Host Defecting from ITV to Channel 4 with a new show that starts in September, O'Grady, 51, has has come a long way since his days telling off-colour jokes as Lily Savage to tipsy gay men at the Vauxhall Tavern.
"You could tell what colour the GM plant in Sleepy Hollow was painting its cars by the colour of the water," recalls Alex Matthiessen, president of Riverkeeper, an environmental watchdog.
There was so much blood that I couldn't even tell what colour her clothes were".
Such was the extent of his injuries that a woman who came to his aid could not tell the colour of his skin.
Mr Scotcher, from Tetbury in Gloucestershire, said Mr Adams was so badly burned he could not tell the colour of his skin.
He was told to colour and decorate it, but insisted on glazing it in opalescent white: "I sort of rather stuck there I'm afraid".
Your avocado is ready when it is easy to peel; feel it to see if it gives slightly as sometimes it's hard to tell by colour.
