Example sentences for: colorful

How can you use “colorful” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • Connoisseurs wait for the set pieces: the colorful parade of the courtesan, a poignant seppuku suicide, the exciting fight scenes, and — summit of the art of kabuki — the end of a love affair that the heroine must break off, perhaps to save her lover’s honor, but never because she no longer loves him.

  • Their half millennium here left indelible traces, seen today in whitewashed houses, hilltop castles, and colorful ceramic tiles.

  • The church has had some colorful preachers too from patriot Sam Parker to Phillips Brooks, author of O Little Town of Bethlehem, and a prodigious gourmet, who also loved the track, billiards, and fly-fishing.

  • With second- and third-generation prosperity, most of the Jews have moved on from the rue St-Urbain neighborhood made famous by the writings of Mordecai Richler (The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz) to make way gradually for an equally colorful Portuguese community.

  • South of metropolitan Miami, you’ll see hundreds of colorful parrots, macaws, flamingoes, and other tropical birds in the rain forest foliage of Parrot Jungle.


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