How to Use local color in a Sentence

local color

noun

• The Welcome to Venice graffiti is a nice splash of local color.
  — Andy Newman, New York Times, 13 Oct. 2017
• Joseph wanted this home in Livingston Manor to feel steeped in the hamlet's local color.
  — Raina Kattelson, Better Homes & Gardens, 15 Oct. 2021
• Looking for local color is fun, but can be dangerous to your health.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 18 Sep. 2019
• Visitors should also take time to stroll the city’s malecón, or seafront promenade, for a dash of local color.
  — Mark Rogers, USA TODAY, 4 Dec. 2019
• Watching the film is such an intense experience that most of its flaws fall away and its red herrings serve only to enhance the local color.
  — Joe Morgenstern, WSJ, 20 May 2021
• On the left, low-slung buildings — some flashing bright local color — cast long shadows, implying a light source and, since that source is obviously the sun, a time of day.
  — Sebastian Smee, Washington Post, 7 July 2020
• Explore the beautiful villages of Apeiranthos and Halki and enjoy the local color of these villages.
  — Petros G. Zissimos, Travel + Leisure, 6 Nov. 2020
• That sets him apart, at least, from the customary authors of similar screeds, visitors from outside parachuting in for a week or two to sponge up local color for their takes.
  — Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times, 23 July 2021
• The American might have carried more prestige, but the local color writers were just as widely read, and their work stands as the postwar era’s most important form of short fiction.
  — Michael Gorra, The New York Review of Books, 23 July 2020
• Twitter feed took a stab at local color and hipness by mentioning Karl the Fog, some San Franciscans were deeply offended.
  — Scott Ostler, SFChronicle.com, 8 Aug. 2020
• Go readers want to hear—some local color to accentuate the foreignness.
  — Jennifer Wilson, The Atlantic, 19 Apr. 2022
• My first regular byline was on the Public Eye column, a daily round-up of entertainment news and gossip, along with bits of local color.
  — San Diego Union-Tribune, 26 Nov. 2022
• For maximum local color, arrange to visit on a market day.
  — Mark Rogers, USA TODAY, 17 Oct. 2017
• Taken together, the aim is to combine excellence and local color.
  — Laurie Werner, Forbes, 18 June 2021
• Authorities hope Cossacks will protect fans while adding local color.
  — Washington Post, 8 June 2018
• But what begins as a local color documentary switches gears midway through and becomes a process documentary.
  — Jeb Lund, The New Republic, 26 Oct. 2020
• Williams renders local color and characters with consummate craft, embroidering the full range of village life with flashes of hilarity.
  — Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com, 4 Jan. 2021
• Not much local color there, but travelers themselves often fascinated me.
  — New York Times, 27 June 2018
• Let’s hope so, because for anyone who likes mysteries with good plotting and characterization, vivid local color, and sparkling language, the Montalbano series is azackly right.
  — Dennis Drabelle, Washington Post, 12 Sep. 2019
• Both exhibitions emphasize van Gogh as a lone, tortured genius rather than a figure of history, and both imply through their editing and exposition that his thick outlines and non-local color were a spontaneous outpouring of his soul.
  — Jason Farago, New York Times, 9 June 2021

Last Updated: 24 Jul 2024