Example sentences for: colorfully

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

  • In America we retain the notion more colorfully when we say someone is riding shotgun on a project, acting as a troubleshooter.

  • From the colorfully painted houses clustered around the postage stamp-sized harbor, avoid the crowds of day-trippers by setting out on a paved cliff walk.

  • I recommend it for those (as the book's cover observes): “—who want to speak more effectively, write more colorfully or be better prepared for the SAT” (the verbal portion of the Scholastic Aptitude Test, a widely used instrument for university admission).

  • In a transformation no less dramatic than the Harbourfront, the hippy slum of the 1960s has been refurbished into a chic neighborhood of fashionable boutiques, art galleries, sidewalk cafés, gourmet restaurants, and colorfully repainted old houses.

  • Seldom did anyone admit to lying, but statements were often couched in terms colorfully indicating that the speaker had abandoned verity.


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