How to Use color line in a Sentence

color line

noun
  • This setup is built along color lines, both racial and otherwise.
    — Richard Brody, New Yorker, 22 May 2026
  • Translate those stripes onto your nails with multi-color lines.
    — Christina Perrier, InStyle, 21 Feb. 2026
  • But some plants just seem to have not gotten on the fall color line when genes were distributed sometime just after the Big Bang.
    — Paul Cappiello, Louisville Courier Journal, 3 Oct. 2025
  • Crossing the color line did not always mean challenging the hierarchy behind it.
    — Dorothy Roberts, Time, 13 Feb. 2026
  • In a very awkward interview with VJ Mark Goodman, David Bowie challenged him about the channel’s color line.
    — Tom Freston, Vulture, 28 Oct. 2025
  • He was hired by the team a good two years before the Cubs signed Gene Baker and played Ernie Banks in 1953 to break the Cubs’ color line.
    — Marianne Mather, Chicago Tribune, 1 May 2026
  • In the standard Robinson myth of interracial union, Rickey is the progressive innovator—the manager who took the player under his wing and broke the color line of the game.
    — Doreen St. Félix, New Yorker, 1 Feb. 2026
  • The podcast hosts also discussed the latest news making industry noise — Louis Vuitton has launched its La Beauté color line with Pat McGrath.
    — Kanika Talwar, Footwear News, 29 Aug. 2025
  • As European nations—including France—maintained colonial rule, exploiting millions of people of color across the globe, Nardal wielded her writings as a weapon to challenge the global color line.
    — Literary Hub, 22 Oct. 2025
  • My father’s 1930s interviews tell stories of couples who defied Chicago’s seemingly impermeable color line.
    — Dorothy Roberts, Time, 13 Feb. 2026
  • Backed by Celebrands — the firm also behind Halsey’s About-face color line — ‘Ôrebella has quickly established itself among the standout celebrity beauty brands of its time as the category proliferates.
    — Noor Lobad, Footwear News, 7 Nov. 2025
  • With his trailblazing run of feature films and TV show episodes dating back to the 1980s and spanning to the present day, Ernest Dickerson has helped to pave the way for the likes of Jordan Peele and Nia DaCosta by showing that horror cinema knows no color lines nor cultural barriers.
    — Alison Foreman, IndieWire, 21 Oct. 2025

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