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7 sentences with 'colour'

Example sentences and phrases with the word colour and other words derived from it.


• « Additives are substances added to foods to give them colour, flavour or preserve them. »
• « From the end of the 15th century onwards, corresponding urine colour charts were reproduced in French and German university textbooks. »
• « The change in colour seen in bruising over the days is because, although the blood flow is stopped by the wound, the tissue continues to consume oxygen. »
• « The Assembly took steps to recognise the rights of free people of colour only slowly at first. However, in the summer of 1791, a slave uprising in St. Domingue forced the issue. »
• « The Assembly struggled desperately to maintain control of the situation, hoping in part to win free people of colour in the colony to fight alongside white plantation owners to maintain control. »
• « The Indian Dinshah Ghadiali had not invented colour therapy, he had simply adapted an old Egyptian therapeutic method to the times. These ideas went hand in hand with what the Indian philosophers held: for them colour was as important as air for people. »
• « An iconic example is the Scottish kilt. The Scots had been wearing kilts since the 16th century, but there was no specific colour and pattern of tartan (a series of horizontal and vertical lines that, when crossed, form a square effect) for each family or clan. The British government eventually assigned tartans to a new class of soldiers recruited from Scotland: the Highland Regiments, whose wider identification of tartan and clan only emerged in the early decades of the 19th century. »

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