How to Use colorless in a Sentence

colorless

adjective
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  • The city’s dirtiest cop was also the most colorless, with a forgettable face and a personality as vague as fog.
    — Christopher Goffard, Los Angeles Times, 15 May 2024
  • The finest moonstones will be colorless, or white, with a sheen of blue.
    — Olivia Munson, USA TODAY, 27 Mar. 2023
  • The set opens up in a colorless world, based on the 1939 movie’s black and white beginning.
    — Cecilia Whalen, charlotteobserver, 21 May 2017
  • Most are odorless, colorless, and tasteless, and leave the body within a few hours.
    — Cara Tabachnick, Marie Claire, 20 Oct. 2015
  • Peach fuzz can appear almost colorless, blonde, gray, or brown (or the same color as the hair on your head).
    — Jessica Cruel, SELF, 8 June 2018
  • Two bleak, colorless pages convey the child’s woe and emptiness.
    — Meghan Cox Gurdon, WSJ, 29 Sep. 2017
  • Methane is colorless and odorless; it cannot be spotted with the naked eye.
    — Anna Kuchment, Scientific American, 1 Sep. 2021
  • Gray skies come too, sometimes, and whole cities can feel colorless, empty and flat.
    — Claire Comstock-Gay, The Cut, 26 Mar. 2018
  • In the wide-shot photo the cross looms against a colorless sky as a crowd of people, dressed in white and black, huddles nearby, heads lowered.
    — Doreen St. Félix, The New Yorker, 8 July 2019
  • Its colorless formula doesn’t transfer or stain even the whitest of bed sheets.
    — Alyssa Brascia, Peoplemag, 30 Jan. 2024
  • In its purest form, VX is colorless, tasteless and odorless.
    — Gerry Doyle, New York Times, 24 Feb. 2017
  • The Elite Spice plants in Hanover and Jessup emit the colorless, flammable gas used to sterilize seasonings.
    — Christine Condon, Baltimore Sun, 19 June 2023
  • This Must Be the Place, the bulk of their 45-minute performance was one colorless alt-pop tune after another.
    — Preston Jones, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 31 Jan. 2024
  • For one, shaking off the dry, colorless impression of the area that some Londoners love to hate could take far longer to address.
    — Prarthana Prakash, Fortune Europe, 13 May 2024
  • Just two milligrams of the colorless, odorless narcotic can be lethal for grown adults.
    — Savannaheadens, oregonlive, 14 Mar. 2023
  • Nitrogen, a colorless, odorless gas, makes up about 80% of the air people breathe.
    — Marty Roney, USA TODAY, 10 May 2024
  • Cerebrospinal fluid is a clear, colorless fluid that surrounds and protects the brain and spinal cord.
    — Mark Lieber, CNN, 8 May 2018
  • The future is a colorless void, where sound can neither be created nor heard.
    — Ashwin Rodrigues, Fortune, 11 Jan. 2018
  • Always the eyesore of long nails, the underside was colorless and unattractive.
    — Allison Carey, cleveland.com, 8 Jan. 2018
  • If bright and bold is your style, think about something more understated with a colorless choice.
    — Jennifer Aldrich, Country Living, 13 Oct. 2018
  • Butyl acrylate is a clear, colorless liquid with a strong odor that is used for making paints, caulks and adhesives.
    — Raymond Zhong, New York Times, 15 Feb. 2023
  • Other activists put the death toll at more than 100 and claimed that sarin gas, a colorless, odorless agent that is lethal if inhaled or touches the skin, had been deployed in the strike.
    — Tracy Wilkinson, latimes.com, 5 Apr. 2017
  • Sure, the films of 2023 are sometimes colorless, but so, too, is a darkened theater in that brief moment before the projector springs to life.
    — Jacob Brogan, Washington Post, 7 Mar. 2024
  • Helium is a colorless, odorless non-flammable gas, that’s lighter than air.
    — Michael Braga, The Arizona Republic, 14 May 2024
  • That gas is odorless, colorless and lethal, and can seep into your home from a neighbor's property, too.
    — Linda Trischitta, Sun-Sentinel.com, 2 Nov. 2017
  • In addition to the eight people killed, hundreds were injured by the colorless, odorless nerve gas.
    — Author: Stuart Biggs, Gearoid Reidy, Anchorage Daily News, 6 July 2018
  • The glands would melt, leaving behind a colorless compound that produced the purple dye when re-exposed to air and sunlight.
    — Mark Woolmer, National Geographic, 24 Sep. 2020
  • Vinyl chloride is a colorless gas used to make polyvinyl chloride, the hard plastic resin in plastic products, like credit cards, car parts, PVC pipe and more.
    — Victoria Moorwood, The Enquirer, 17 Feb. 2023
  • After a long, colorless winter, springtime means flowers, and lots of them!
    — Arricca Elin Sansone, Country Living, 9 Jan. 2023
  • Methyl methacrylate, sometimes called MMA, is a colorless liquid with a fruity odor often used in the production of acrylic plastics and resins.
    — Polo Sandoval, CNN, 27 Mar. 2023

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