Example Sentences

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Whether ultramarine, cerulean, Egyptian or cobalt, blue pigments have colored artworks for centuries.

From Science Daily • Feb. 22, 2024

BH: I grew up in a Catholic school, so I wasn’t really allowed to have colored hair.

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 19, 2022

Or the power dynamics that come into play when an elected official makes an advance on an aide: Most articles covering the story barely scratched the surface of how this might have colored the situation.

From Washington Post • Oct. 30, 2021

These entanglements may have colored Mr. Boies’s objectivity and judgment about Mr. Weinstein.

From New York Times • Sep. 21, 2018

Some people now have colored refrigerators, pale-green or pink, but I don’t like these colors and I’m pleased that Cordelia’s mother doesn’t either.

From "Cat's Eye" by Margaret Atwood