Examples of “colored” in a Sentence

adjective Having a particular color, especially a color other than plain black, white, or gray.

• She wore a brightly colored scarf to the winter market.
• Colored lights hung along the street for the festival.
• Nara and its deer are so closely associated that the light-brown colored animals are pictured in the city’s tourism ads, on buses, train tickets and more. — Lilit Marcus, Japan may be sick of mass tourism. But the deer in this ancient UNESCO-listed city love it (2024)
• The kids picked out colored pencils for their art project.
• The room was red, with a dark-colored rug.

adjective An outdated and now offensive term historically used to describe Black people or people of color in the US.

• The term "colored" appears in old civil-rights-era signage and is now considered offensive.