colorless

Example Sentences

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“Soon everyone will know H2SO4,” he added—the chemical symbol for the colorless, corrosive liquid.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 16, 2026

Contrary to popular belief, space food isn’t just freeze-dried packages or long tubes of bland, colorless and soulless slop.

From Salon • Apr. 10, 2026

Janet Simmelink—69, retired, and like many people in her milieu, visibly agitated—recently lingered on the outskirts of Denver’s Civic Center Park on a colorless evening, politely tolerating my questions.

From Slate • Apr. 9, 2025

Centers for Disease Control says chloroethane, which is also called ethyl chloride, is a colorless gas with a sharp odor that can also exist as a quick-evaporating liquid.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 19, 2025

He was in his late fifties, however, and his reddish hair had been bleached almost colorless now, like a dandelion gone to seed.

From "Middlesex: A Novel" by Jeffrey Eugenides