Example sentences for: colourful

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

  • There are some colourful and interesting exhibits here (particularly the correspondence between Thomas Edison and the Hungarian telecommunications pioneer Tivadar Puskás), but the real attraction is the building itself, particularly the stairway and balcony decorated with outstanding frescoes by Károly Lotz.

  • A more colourful and allusive translation, however, is `Place of the Clipped Heads,' a reference to the tribe's well-known fondness for bold, highly decorative punk-style haircuts.

  • Idioms in other languages can be misleading, for there are many different and often colourful metaphoric ways of expressing the same concept.

  • Since tribal members preferred to make brightly colourful fashion statements and generally wore only custom-designed originals, they regarded uniform clothing, particularly of a dark and somber hue, as exceedingly odd.

  • She doesn't mention that this name is a perfectly normal Germanic name which consists of rik- mighty and -ulf, wolf which is itself a rather colourful name for a scoundrel.


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