How to Use tricolor in a Sentence

tricolor

1 of 2 adjective

• The zip jacket from the French brand has a silk lining and tricolor bands of black, red and white.
  — Marques Harper Deputy Features Editor, Los Angeles Times, 1 Dec. 2021
• In a nod to the tricolor Iranian flag, Amadi wore a white top, green shorts and bright red lipstick.
  — Laura J. Nelson, Los Angeles Times, 1 Oct. 2022
• That's 9 billion pieces of the tricolor wonders to munch on every Halloween.
  — Ashley Leath, Country Living, 30 Sep. 2022
• The ashes of a bonfire fueled with the tricolor flag of neighboring Ireland lay in a central square.
  — New York Times, 13 July 2021
• The popular 'Striptease' hosta is a tricolor variety; each green leaf has a golden stripe down the center that is edged by a thin white line.
  — Sheryl Geerts, Better Homes & Gardens, 7 Feb. 2023
• Down came the tricolor Russian flag flying downtown alongside the flags of the six other countries where Roanoke has sister cities.
  — Jane Gottlieb, Washington Post, 10 Apr. 2023
• Pizzas are topped with homegrown basil, pineapple mint is a mojito garnish, tricolor sage is added to salads, and Mexican mint is part of a taco recipe.
  — Jeanine Barone, Forbes, 28 Dec. 2021
• In an early sign of protest to the Taliban's rule, dozens gathered in Jalalabad and a nearby market town to raise the tricolor national flag.
  — Compiled Democrat-Gazette Staff From Wire Reports, Arkansas Online, 19 Aug. 2021
• The mussel reproduces by releasing larvae that look like food for minnows, such as the Alabama shiner, tricolor shiner and striped shiner.
  — Dennis Pillion | [email protected], al, 5 July 2022
• But Russian forces have raised their tricolor flag over the Kherson regional administration building.
  — Washington Post, 19 Apr. 2022
• An example of this is Look 6, a tricolor silk faille raincoat in a cocoon shape Cristóbal Balenciaga might have approved of.
  — Vogue, 24 Feb. 2022
• Thus a newer, tricolor MBC ribbon aims to make people aware of the need for more funding toward the development of life-extending treatments.
  — Petra Guglielmetti, Glamour, 12 Oct. 2020
• The symbol of the Brothers of Italy is a tricolor flame, previously used by a neo-fascist party, and its hostility to immigrants remains firm.
  — Roger Cohen, New York Times, 5 May 2024
• The federal Fish and Wildlife Service designated the northern long-eared bat as endangered last year and has proposed listing for the tricolored bat.
  — John Flesher, Fortune, 17 Apr. 2023
• When presenting the day’s show, Lesnoy sits before a small table draped with a white and blue tricolor flag—the symbol of the Russian opposition to the invasion—and that of Ukraine.
  — Guillaume Ptak, WIRED, 29 Aug. 2022
• Part of the reason the MBC ribbon has started to go mainstream is a creative initiative that shines light on the tricolor ribbon and its cause—quite literally (and beautifully).
  — Petra Guglielmetti, Glamour, 12 Oct. 2020
• Her party’s logo, a tricolor flame, is a symbol of the Italian Social Movement; some of Mussolini’s descendants have even contested elections under its banner.
  — Yasmeen Serhan, Time, 22 Sep. 2022
• Meloni’s Brothers of Italy party remains an unrepentant bastion of the hard right, up to and including a tricolor flame in its logo that evokes a now-defunct party made up of the political remnants of Mussolini’s fascists.
  — Stefano Pitrelli, Washington Post, 13 June 2024

tricolor

2 of 2 noun

• The French tricolor flag adorns the sleeve of his baker’s coat.
  — Adam Nossiter, New York Times, 14 May 2018
• The origins of using the fruity tricolor stuff in punch are harder to trace.
  — Anna Hezel, Bon Appetit, 11 Mar. 2017
• Their small to medium size and tricolor coat add to their visual appeal.
  — Jake Parks, Discover Magazine, 12 Dec. 2023
• Matthew Card came up with this dish a few years ago as a way to use up leftover spinach or tricolor pasta.
  — OregonLive.com, 25 Jan. 2018
• Framing the bespoke dial is a ring in the French tricolor tones of blue, red and white.
  — Cait Bazemore, Robb Report, 17 Nov. 2022
• The separate jewel colors met to make the stage like some tricolor flag.
  — Alastair MacAulay, New York Times, 21 July 2017
• While the Russian tricolor, alas, has become a symbol of that very evil.
  — Stanislav Kucher, CNN, 13 May 2022
• The colors—orange and green, two-thirds of the Irish tricolor—were perfect, as was the fit.
  — Mike Kerrigan, WSJ, 21 Oct. 2022
• Look out for brown pelicans, tricolor herons, reddish egrets, wood storks, and many other unique species.
  — Elizabeth Rhodes, Travel + Leisure, 23 June 2026
• The new banner consisted of just a red and a blue stripe, without the central white stripe of the tricolor.
  — Roxanne Fequiere, New York Times, 14 May 2018
• Another six planes were set to paint the sky in the colors of the Russian tricolor.
  — Rachel Elbaum, NBC News, 9 May 2022
• Above the gate tower, a giant tricolor of the republic fluttered against a clear blue sky.
  — New York Times, 10 Dec. 2021
• The tricolor at the top of both the badge and the shield represents the colors of the Italian flag.
  — Encyclopedia Britannica, 17 July 2026
• Many were draped in the Irish tricolor and at one point the crowd began singing the national anthem.
  — NBC News, 12 May 2018
• The back of the system, where the vents are located, features tricolor banding with gray, navy and gold hues.
  — Brittany Vincent, CNN Underscored, 29 June 2020
• Coots, herons, both great blue and tricolor, egrets, bitterns, rails, snipe and a host of other wading birds prowl the shallows.
  — Ben Raines | [email protected], AL.com, 30 Aug. 2017
• The tricolor laces and wooden sole are inspired by the region—just add a straw bag for a full tropical effect.
  — Halie Lesavage, Harper's BAZAAR, 27 Apr. 2022
• Before Macron’s presidency, a brighter cobalt was used in the tricolor for decades.
  — Ananya Bhattacharya, Quartz, 15 Nov. 2021
• Plant tricolor sage as a ground cover in front of a larger, upright rosemary variety.
  — Kim Toscano, Southern Living, 2 Apr. 2026
• The Russian tricolor was torn from the Tank and replaced with a Ukrainian flag.
  — James Verini Paolo Pellegrin, New York Times, 1 Nov. 2023
• For men, there are tam-o’-shanter hats with tricolor pom-poms and capri-length golfing trousers—best worn with argyle knee-high socks, naturally.
  — Steff Yotka, Vogue, 30 Oct. 2018
• The Russian tricolor flag is displayed at most of the main government buildings.
  — David L. Stern, Washington Post, 12 June 2022
• The name originates from the Mexican flag, el tricolor, which means three colors.
  — Nihal Kolur, SI.com, 11 June 2018
• The second dog, 100 feet away across the yard, is Lady, a small mixed breed with a tricolor, patchwork face.
  — Gene Weingarten, Washington Post, 8 Nov. 2021
• It is represented on Irish coins, called doubloons, and on the green flag that preceded the present day tricolor.
  — Philip Potempa, Post-Tribune, 14 Mar. 2018
• Skip the tricolor cookies this Christmas—any and all party hosts will be much better off with a panettone brought to them instead.
  — Matt Ortile, Condé Nast Traveler, 19 Nov. 2025
• In front of the Lviv train station, someone pointed us toward a man waving the French tricolor.
  — Keith Gessen, The New Yorker, 29 Mar. 2022
• Elsewhere, the full color spectrum is teased out of blasting white light, thanks to an old-fashioned, prismlike tricolor filming process.
  — Christopher Knight, latimes.com, 22 June 2019
• The French tricolor is everywhere — in sidewalk cafes and bars, and the hundreds of fan zones set up in cities and small towns around France.
  — Eva Van Dam, Los Angeles Times, 14 July 2026
• In the pantheon of high-emotion candy, the classic shiny tricolor kernels in autumn’s white, orange and yellow are way up there.
  — Leanne Italie, Fortune, 24 Oct. 2023