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How to use the word colours in a Sentence?

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The human sense of smell is extraordinary. Our eyes can distinguish several million colours, our ears can distinguish half a million tones, but our noses can distinguish well over a trillion different odours. Humans can detect virtually all volatile chemicals ever tested. – Merlin Sheldrake	added by Greying_Geezer 1 year ago
Infinite hearts in infinite colours describe the love I have for you as they flow through your thoughts. – Heather Lydia Thornhill	added by anonymous 1 year ago
I chose an eternity of this, Like falling angels, the world disappeared. Laughing into the fire, is it always like this? Flesh and blood and the first kiss; The first colours, the first kiss. – Robert Smith, The Cure	added by scottholstad 2 years ago
Holi teaches us to forgive and forget. The colours of Holi brings new colours into our lives. May these colours be filled with Joy, Happiness, Love and Abundance. – Purvi Raniga	added by Purviraniga 3 years ago
The colours are absolutely vibrant, and (it is) ... probably one of the two or three most important works available now in private hands. – Kevin Ching	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
In clouds, iridescence is a byproduct of sunlight being diffracted by water droplets or ice crystals, causing the various wavelengths of light – which we see as colours – to emerge at different angles, as they reach the observer’s eye, the observer perceives a pattern of various colours as those different wavelengths reach his or her eye from distinct directions, rather than being jumbled together and appearing whitish. – Nick Wiltgen	Found on FOX News 8 years ago
The Family Book champions an all-inclusive world where families come in all shapes, sizes and colours, and most importantly, that families are about love. Our boys adore The Family Book. – Elton John	Found on CNN 8 years ago
After the Mirage 5, the Alpha Jet and the Mirage 2000, the Rafale is the fourth Dassault aircraft to fly in Egyptian colours, and Egypt is the first export customer for the Rafale, as it was for the Mirage 2000. – Chief Executive Eric Trappier	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
They might have seen the executioners in very dark colours; it was a very dark night, they only had flashlights on the prisoners, and when we were going to meet them we were falling over stones because of the dark. – Charlie Burrows	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
A just and reasonable modesty does not only recommend eloquence, but sets off every talent which a man can be possessed of. It heightens all the virtues which it accompanies; like the shades of paintings, it raises and rounds every figure, and makes the colours more beautiful, though not so glowing as they would be without it. – Addison	added by anonymous 12 years ago
I find it funny how people pick you flaws to try boos there confidence. But when you can't break the rock baby, your picking on the wrong mountain! Keep hustling', keep bustlin' and your true colours will show... – Dion Petrig	added by anonymous 13 years ago
I muse with the greatest affection on every flower I have known from my infancy - their shapes and colours are as new to me as if I had just created them with a superhuman fancy - It is because they are connected with the most thoughtless and happiest moments of our lives. – John Keats, Letter to James Rice, Feb 1820	added by anonymous 13 years ago
So different are the colours of life, as we look forward to the future, or backward to the past and so different the opinions and sentiments which this contrariety of appearance naturally produces, that the conversation of the old and young ends generally with contempt or pity on either side. – Victor Hugo	added by anonymous 14 years ago
I cannot pretend to feel impartial about colours. I rejoice with the brilliant ones and am genuinely sorry for the poor browns. – Winston Churchill	added by anonymous 14 years ago
Be Like the crayon...... Blunt,sharp,Long or Short...... Always add colours to others lives – Siddharth Astir	added by anonymous 14 years ago

The human sense of smell is extraordinary. Our eyes can distinguish several million colours, our ears can distinguish half a million tones, but our noses can distinguish well over a trillion different odours. Humans can detect virtually all volatile chemicals ever tested.

– Merlin Sheldrake

added by Greying_Geezer
1 year ago

Infinite hearts in infinite colours describe the love I have for you as they flow through your thoughts.

– Heather Lydia Thornhill

added by anonymous
1 year ago

I chose an eternity of this, Like falling angels, the world disappeared. Laughing into the fire, is it always like this? Flesh and blood and the first kiss; The first colours, the first kiss.

– Robert Smith, The Cure

added by scottholstad
2 years ago

Holi teaches us to forgive and forget. The colours of Holi brings new colours into our lives. May these colours be filled with Joy, Happiness, Love and Abundance.

– Purvi Raniga

added by Purviraniga
3 years ago

The colours are absolutely vibrant, and (it is) ... probably one of the two or three most important works available now in private hands.

– Kevin Ching

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

In clouds, iridescence is a byproduct of sunlight being diffracted by water droplets or ice crystals, causing the various wavelengths of light – which we see as colours – to emerge at different angles, as they reach the observer’s eye, the observer perceives a pattern of various colours as those different wavelengths reach his or her eye from distinct directions, rather than being jumbled together and appearing whitish.

– Nick Wiltgen

Found on FOX News
8 years ago

The Family Book champions an all-inclusive world where families come in all shapes, sizes and colours, and most importantly, that families are about love. Our boys adore The Family Book.

– Elton John

Found on CNN
8 years ago

After the Mirage 5, the Alpha Jet and the Mirage 2000, the Rafale is the fourth Dassault aircraft to fly in Egyptian colours, and Egypt is the first export customer for the Rafale, as it was for the Mirage 2000.

– Chief Executive Eric Trappier

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

They might have seen the executioners in very dark colours; it was a very dark night, they only had flashlights on the prisoners, and when we were going to meet them we were falling over stones because of the dark.

– Charlie Burrows

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

A just and reasonable modesty does not only recommend eloquence, but sets off every talent which a man can be possessed of. It heightens all the virtues which it accompanies; like the shades of paintings, it raises and rounds every figure, and makes the colours more beautiful, though not so glowing as they would be without it.

– Addison

added by anonymous
12 years ago

I find it funny how people pick you flaws to try boos there confidence. But when you can't break the rock baby, your picking on the wrong mountain! Keep hustling', keep bustlin' and your true colours will show...

– Dion Petrig

added by anonymous
13 years ago

I muse with the greatest affection on every flower I have known from my infancy - their shapes and colours are as new to me as if I had just created them with a superhuman fancy - It is because they are connected with the most thoughtless and happiest moments of our lives.

– John Keats, Letter to James Rice, Feb 1820

added by anonymous
13 years ago

So different are the colours of life, as we look forward to the future, or backward to the past and so different the opinions and sentiments which this contrariety of appearance naturally produces, that the conversation of the old and young ends generally with contempt or pity on either side.

– Victor Hugo

added by anonymous
14 years ago

I cannot pretend to feel impartial about colours. I rejoice with the brilliant ones and am genuinely sorry for the poor browns.

– Winston Churchill

added by anonymous
14 years ago

Be Like the crayon...... Blunt,sharp,Long or Short...... Always add colours to others lives

– Siddharth Astir

added by anonymous
14 years ago

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