6. Colour (noun)

1. I like nice bright colours like yellow and pink 2. Look carefully at the rear door. It's not quite the same colour as the rest of the car. 3. The chameleon is able to change colour to protect itself. 4. What's your favourite colour? 5. What colour is his hair? 6. You can't judge people by the colour of their skin. 7. Also its high resolution colour display means that the reader can use computer graphics to enhance articles or illustrations within the publication. 8. I was thinking of the colour of her hair: Daniel, you may remember, alluded to her as a redhead. 9. One of the most popular has been carnelian, which owes its reddish colour to the presence of iron oxide. 10. Print quality was very good, with crisp, sharp text and well balanced colour graphics. 11. River Island's creative combinations of design, rich colour and new fabrics build a versatile wardrobe for autumn/winter. 12. The yellow tomatoes have a standard tomato flavour and provide an excellent colour contrast in salads. 13. Too many evergreens can look boring, so plant just a few choice ones to add colour to dull areas. 14. Bruce went to the doctor, feeling a little off colour, and was told that he had anaemia. 15. I'm fine, thank you, but Elinor's a bit off colour at the moment.

To colour

1. How can he make fair and impartial decisions when political loyalties colour his judgement? 2. Last time I tried to colour my hair it turned red! 3. Marigold petals were once used for colouring butter and cheese. 4. Both are easy to colour and mould into decorations. 5. It was a beautiful afternoon and Nature was colouring the Moor with breathtaking tints. 6. The dyes will colour the flower.

Coloured

1. The cages were full of brightly- coloured tropical birds. 2. The front door was painted blue and had a coloured glass panel in it.

Colouress

1. Everything was grey, wet and colourless as we stood by the rail watching the luggage being unloaded into the custom sheds. 2. I dimly remembered having watched the sun set, copper orange over a colourless world. 3. Standing at the right angle, we are dazzled by the colours of the rainbow in colourless ice. 4. Tait stroked his beard again with long, elegant fingers, appraising her with colourless eyes. 5. The glare of the nauseous streetlights which made the world faceless and colourless. 6. They were slim, pale and elegant, and she wore colourless or pearl nail varnish. 7. Until you looked into his strangely colourless eyes. 8. Woolley's training programme was grindingly hard, tent-life cold, wet and colourless, and the news from the front depressing.

7. Doubt (noun)

1. I hope to convince any doubters in the audience that our policies will work. 2. There are still some doubts about her suitability for the job. 3. There seems to be some doubt as to what warnings were given. 4. Especially in the early thirties, the ideas in the central tradition acted powerfully to breed such doubts. 5. He worked to dispel his doubts about his friend as though to pass another test, like his ordeal in the park. 6. However, some critics have expressed doubts over whether future governments can be locked into the promises. 7. If in doubt, try the front door. 8. It casts more doubt on Wallace's conviction in 1981 of the killing of his friend, antique dealer Jonathan Lewis. 9. Little doubt what the weight of opinion was there.10. Then he thought of Benedicta and felt a twinge of doubt. 11. There seems no doubt ever in your minds that the Emperor is more powerful than you are, or Hari Seldon wiser.

To doubt

1. At the time we seriously doubted that the doctor had got the diagnosis right. 2. He doubted that the car was hers because everyone knew she had no money.3. He may be able to do a good job, but I doubt it.4. He wondered how he could ever have doubted her. 5. I doubt whether I'll be able to find a decent car for the price I can afford.6. I very much doubt whether we'll get someone for the job by September.7. In all the years I knew him I never once doubted his story.8. It was possible that Maggie had been delayed, but he doubted it. 9. She says she'll leave him, but I doubt very much that she will. 10. Some people doubted that the attacks on the American ships had actually taken place.11. The Navy never seriously doubted the inquiry's findings.12. They seriously doubted whether the letter had ever existed.13. We'd better go to the party, but I doubt if it'll be very exciting. 14. Her sincerity made me doubt my own version of events.15. I doubted that I would find one in time. 16. No-one can doubt its power to evoke the imagination of millions upon millions of people through the ages and today. 17. Still, I could not doubt that my vision had occurred, even though I had no way to verify it.18. They doubt that Caravaggio was even homosexual, as is widely believed.19. Who could doubt that at this late date?

Doubtful

1. "Is Maddy coming tonight?" "It's looking doubtful - she was really sick." 2. Doblado accepted the doubtful honor of organizing the fund-raiser. 3. I could see that Holmes still looked doubtful. 4. It's doubtful that we'll finish this tonight. 5. The general expressed his concern about the number of citizens with doubtful loyalties. 6. And, of course, it was doubtful whether the girl would back him up.7. But the result confirmed that building society provisions will rocket this year to cover bad and doubtful home loans.8. He saw they were doubtful now that this had been a serious meeting.9. It is doubtful whether the diners actually find these offerings delicious.10. It means more doubtful inward investment.

11. Though it was doubtful that Fen's company was any less disturbing.